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Cause of Death?

Does anyone know how or why Alinsky died? Seems like it happened very soon after he published Rules for Radicals. Don't know that it is relevant to the article, but I am curious.--Chinawhitecotton 08:11, 17 November 2005 (UTC) smoking[reply]

Alinsky died of a heart attack at the age of 63 on June 12, 1972. AletaP 14:10, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My father died of a Coronary Thrombosis on the morning of June 12, 1972 as he was leaving the dry cleaner's in Carmel, CA. It was a natural event.

I was very pleased to see an image of Alinksy in the article. However, according to the copyright tag:

It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers to illustrate the book in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.

The guidelines are quite specific that fair use 'covers the book in question'. Isn't this a guideline violation? One may disagree with United States copyright law, but shouldn't we show some respect for Wikipedia's copyright guidelines, and some understanding of their legal situation? Potentially, any single copyright violation could cause an entire encylopedia distribution to be subject to legal action - Crosbiesmith 23:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So what exactly is your complaint? Deyyaz 13:53, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This image is, in addition to that use, being use to illustrate the subject of this article. That also falls under "Fair Use". So, no conflict. --NightMonkey 06:21, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]