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John Vliet Lindsay (/vliːt ˈlɪnᵈzi/; November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician, lawyer, and broadcaster who was a U.S. congressman, mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. president, and regular guest host of Good Morning America.
During his political career, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York City from January 1966 to December 1973. He switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party in 1971, and launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination as well as the 1980 Democratic nomination for Senator from New York. He died from Parkinson's disease and pneumonia in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on December 19, 2000.
Lindsay was born in New York City on West End Avenue, to George Nelson Lindsay and the former Florence Eleanor Vliet. He grew up in an upper-middle-class family of English and Dutch descent. Lindsay's paternal grandfather migrated to the United States in the 1880s from the Isle of Wight, and his mother was from an upper-middle-class family that had been in New York since the 1660s. Lindsay's father was a successful lawyer and investment banker. Lindsay attended the Buckley School, St. Paul's School and Yale, where he was admitted to the class of 1944 and joined Scroll and Key.
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Mayor John Lindsay runs for office 1968
John Lindsay Becomes Mayor Of New York (1965)
John LINDSAY - " Cucurucucu ... "
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Mayor John Lindsay - Campaign (1971)
John V. Lindsay : Transit Strike : 1966
John Lindsay speaking at UCLA 2/23/1972
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Actors: Sonny Grosso (producer), Donnie Wahlberg (actor), Tony Lo Bianco (actor), Bobby Cannavale (actor), Lou Martini Jr. (actor), Clark Johnson (director), Patricia Porter (miscellaneous crew), Larry Jacobson (producer), Niko Godfrey (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Ferguson (miscellaneous crew), Steven Wargo (miscellaneous crew), Katherine DeJesus (miscellaneous crew), Adam Taylor (miscellaneous crew), Kat Foster (actress), John Perez (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: James Flavin (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), John Beal (actor), William Arnold (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), James Bush (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Harvey Clark (actor), Roy Brent (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Maurice Costello (actor), Eddie Foster (actor),
Plot: Law professor John Lindsay volunteers to clean up the corruption and graft in his town when the authorities seem unable to do so. When the gangsters infiltrate his staff, he recruits his law students to form an army of law enforcers.
Keywords: alcohol, arrest, bodyguard, broken-window, cafe, car-bomb, car-explosion, coward, dancing, dog