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Kathleen DuRoss Ford, widow of Henry Ford II, dies at 80 years old

Comedian and actress Lily Tomlin told the Free Press last year that she had known Kathleen DuRoss Ford since they were teenagers in Detroit.
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Lily Tomlin's parents were Southern Baptists who moved to Detroit from Paducah, Kentucky, during the Great Depression. Although she attended a Southern Baptist church as a child, she later grew to become irreligious.

She is a 1957 graduate of Cass Technical High School.

Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin was born September 1, 1939.

Raised in Detroit, Michigan, Andrew Marshall graduated from Cass Technical High School.

Robert Vesco was born in Detroit, Michigan, where he grew up and attended, and then quit, Cass Technical High School.

Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh (May 29, 1876 – September 7, 1954) is best known as the mother of aviator Charles Lindbergh, she taught chemistry at the Cass Technical High School in Detroit from 1922 until retirement in 1942.

Lily Tomlin is known for her collaborations with

Jane Fonda starring in the films 9 to 5 (1980), 80 for Brady (2023), and Moving On (2023). She also starred with Fonda on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie, which ran from 2015 to 2022.

Edward Teller had a heart attack in 1979, and blamed it on Jane Fonda, who had starred in

The China Syndrome, which depicted a fictional reactor accident and was released less than two weeks before the Three Mile Island accident.

In 1979, Roy Cohn became a member of the Western Goals Foundation; he served on the board of directors with Edward Teller.

Western Goals Foundation was founded in 1979 by Major General John K. Singlaub, the publisher and spy John H. Rees, and Congressman Larry McDonald.

It went defunct in 1986 when the Tower Commission revealed it had been part of Oliver North's Iran–Contra funding network.

John K. Singlaub was founder in 1981 of the United States Council for World Freedom, the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL).

The Tower Commission, composed of former Senator John Tower of Texas, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former

National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, was tasked with reviewing the proper role of the National Security Council staff in national security operations generally, and in the arms transfers to Iran specifically.

John Tower was the liaison for Robert Maxwell, a British

publishing heavyweight and super-spy for Mossad, to the White House and to US government operations. The relationship began in 1984, and the soon-to-be retired Tower "told Maxwell that his fee as Maxwell's personal consultant would be $200,000." John Tower received his fee in

four separate payments of $50,000 into a Swiss bank account. Tower arranged for Maxwell to meet with leadership of Sandia National Laboratories, a US nuclear lab. Maxwell sold to Sandia a copy of PROMIS software that had a backdoor which was accessible by Israeli intelligence,

giving nuclear details to Israel. Shortly after retirement from the Senate, in 1985, Tower took Maxwell's request for American help in arming Iran, and relayed it to President Reagan as a means to trade for American hostages held in Lebanon.

Kathleen DuRoss Ford, 80, was a

former model from Detroit whose father had been a factory worker. She married Henry Ford II, the grandson of Henry Ford and a giant in automotive history in his own right, in 1980. It was her second marriage — her first husband died in a car crash returning from band practice

— and his third. Henry Ford II, who was also known as Hank the Deuce, led Ford as CEO and president and was credited with reviving the company's fortunes.

In addition to his Wyoming ranches, for the last twenty-five years of his life Jack Bugas's main home was his sprawling

country estate in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, which he named Woodland.

Woodland became the unofficial site for many discreet Ford meetings (as well as discreet poker games), including with Henry Ford II, Robert McNamara, Lee Iacocca, Carroll Shelby, and J. Edgar Hoover.

Upon Jack Bugas's death, Woodland was purchased by Max Fisher's close friend and Alfred Taubman.

Alfred Taubman served as a mentor for Les Wexner, starting in the mid 1960s, and the two partnered on many deals involving Taubman's shopping malls over the years.

Southern Air Transport (SAT) (1947–1998), based in Miami, Florida, was a cargo airline best known as a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (1960–1973) and for its crucial role in the Iran-Contra scandal in the mid-1980s.

SAT became a subsidiary of the CIA's