Gaddafi is Dead; One of His Terror Victims Was From North Hollywood

The former dictator of Libya, Col. Moammar Gaddafi, was killed by rebel fighters today, according to reports on CNN and other news agencies.

Gaddafi's terror was widespread. My father knew Gaddafi when he was just a young officer in the Libyan military, and recently and how my father had never felt free to discuss it openly until recently.

Gaddafi is believed to be responsible for the deaths of thousands of people during his 42 years in power, including 270 people who perished when Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over Scotland in 1988 by Libyan intelligence officials, a terror attack believed to have been ordered by Gaddafi himself.

One of the Pan AM 103 victim's was Jonathan White of North Hollywood, a 33-year-old accountant who also was the son of actor David White, who played the character Larry Tate on the TV show Bewitched. Jonathan's mother, Mary Welch, died when he was just a toddler from complications during a pregnancy. David White passed away only two years after his son perished, and both he and his son are interred together at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.