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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1033286" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 30 Sep 1955, James Dean, the brooding film actor who won acclaim in Giant, East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, died from injuries suffered in a car crash at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, CA, a tiny farm town.&nbsp;Dean, who lived the life of James Stark (his character in Rebel Without a Cause), was killed when his Porsche Spyder ran into another car, head-on at 75 miles an hour. James Dean souvenirs are for sale at the Jack Ranch Cafe, a half-mile west of the crash scene. Located near the cafe is the Dean memorial, financed by Japanese fan Seita Ohnishi. Dean&#039;s mechanic, Rolf Wütherich, who was in the Porsche with Dean, was gravely injured, but gradually recovered.&nbsp;Ironically, Wütherich eventually returned to his native (West) Germany and died there in 1981 when his car skidded on a rain-slickened road and struck a tree.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1033286, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 30 Sep 1955, James Dean, the brooding film actor who won acclaim in [I]Giant[/I], [I]East of Eden[/I] and [I]Rebel Without a Cause[/I], died from injuries suffered in a car crash at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, CA, a tiny farm town. Dean, who lived the life of James Stark (his character in [I]Rebel Without a Cause[/I]), was killed when his Porsche Spyder ran into another car, head-on at 75 miles an hour. James Dean souvenirs are for sale at the Jack Ranch Cafe, a half-mile west of the crash scene. Located near the cafe is the Dean memorial, financed by Japanese fan Seita Ohnishi. Dean's mechanic, Rolf Wütherich, who was in the Porsche with Dean, was gravely injured, but gradually recovered. Ironically, Wütherich eventually returned to his native (West) Germany and died there in 1981 when his car skidded on a rain-slickened road and struck a tree.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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