"We had a beautiful time," recalled Mary Jane La Vache.
"Up against the world," Hearn, his manager at the time, recalled.
"He was rocked," Jean-François Jean-François Fitoumbassador theKosovo at the time, recalled.
"I was a second grader at the time," recalled 39-year-old Jackie Zuckerman.
"He changed after he went to Iraq the first time," recalled Ana Ochoa, one of his closest friends.
"He didn't say anything the entire time," recalled Mr. Mueller said in an interview with Cleveland's WKYC-TV.
Ms. Walsh, who was dating a screenwriter named Stephen Sinclair at the time, recalled Mr. Jackson as having "sallow" skin.
"We were a bunch of youngish, stroppy food fans," Chris Maillard, an editor at the time, recalled.
He would break into snippets of popular songs at any time, recalled Rita Loni, his assistant for 33 years.
Lloyd Gardner, who also taught in the history department at the time, recalled that Dr. McCormick was "an innovative chairman".
Pearson, her editor at the time, recalled the doorstep moment vividly: "That was what she was like.
