Bela Kiraly, 97, one of the military leaders of Hungary’s short-lived anti- Soviet revolution in 1956, died Saturday in Budapest, the Magyar Nemzet newspaper reported.
Kiraly served in the Hungarian army during World War II and later led its military academy. In 1952, he was sentenced to death on trumped-up conspiracy charges by Hungary’s Stalinist regime, but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison.
The October 1956 revolution, aimed at overthrowing the communist regime, lasted less than two weeks before it was crushed. Kiraly had been freed from prison just weeks before the revolution, and during it, he was named Budapest’s military commander and head of the National Guard.
After the revolution, Kiraly continued to advocate for its cause and testified at the United Nations.
He settled in the United States, becoming a citizen in 1965. He earned a Ph.D in history at Columbia University and taught military history at Brooklyn College of City University of New York.
In 1989, the last full year of Hungary’s communist regime, Kiraly was rehabilitated. He was elected to a four- year term in parliament in the first post-communist elections in 1990 and served as vice chairman of its defense committee. Later, he was a government adviser on armed forces reforms.
Anna Karen Morrow, 94, an actress who had a regular role on the prime-time soap opera “Peyton Place” and also appeared on Broadway, in films and on numerous other television shows, died Wednesday, her son-in-law, Darrell Christian, confirmed.
Her film credits included “The Price of Fear,” which starred Merle Oberon; “The Wrong Man” alongside Henry Fonda; and “It Happened in Athens” with Jayne Mansfield.
On “Peyton Place,” she played Mrs. Chernak, the Harrington family housekeeper. Morrow also appeared in the TV series “Star Trek,” “Gunsmoke,” “Hazel” and “The Perry Como Show,” and on Broadway in the play “Red Gloves.” Before acting, she was a model in New York.
She was the widow of Jeff Morrow, who also acted. He died in 1993.
