LIBERTY: April 2008 Archives
Born John Charles Carter on October 4th 1924 in Evanston, Illinois, Charlton Heston's career spanned an almost unprecedented 50 years of stage, television and film work, winning the SAG Academy Award for Best Actor in the film Ben-Hur, which itself won eleven Oscars, unprecedented up until almost 40 years later when James Cameron's Titanic tied Ben-Hur for the most Oscars won by any film.
His energies and talents in his later years went more towards promoting traditional conservative causes, such as the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
