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Les Whitt

American zoologist

Died when: 56 years 360 days (683 months)
Star Sign: Virgo

 

Les Whitt

Robert Leslie Whitt (August 22, 1951 – August 16, 2008), known as Les Whitt, was the award-winning director of Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana, having served from 1974 until his death from heart complications only six days prior to what would have been his 57th birthday.

Whitt was also a musician who mastered a Hammond B-3 organ and played with B.B.King and B.B.

Major, whom he had accompanied at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.


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