Alison parker biography

Alison was a gymnast, a beautiful dancer, and a badass whitewater kayaker.
Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a.
Alison M. Parker is Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, where she teaches classes on race, gender, and the law in American.

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Alison Parker

Family

Sir Benjamin Parker (father)

Occupation

Student (Brighton College)

Alison Parkeris a secondary character in the Netflix series Money Heist, portrayed by actress María Pedraza. She is one of the hostages that were held in the Royal Mint of Spain.

Biography[]

Alison is the daughter of Sir Benjamin Parker, the British Ambassador in Spain. Her father has taken her hunting regularly since she was five years old, but what she really wants to do is dance.^[3]

Part 1[]

Alison was a student visiting the Royal Mint of Spain with her classmates from Brighton College when the heist took place. Unbeknownst to her, she was instrumental to the timing of the heist, as The Professor knew she would be an important hostage.

Because she was so important, Arturo told her to hide while Inspector Raquel was in the Royal Mint of Spain to check if everybody is alive. If she wouldn't be found, police would enter the Mint. She was found by Nairobi.

Physical Appearance[]

Alison has curly brown hair.

Personality[]

Alison is shy and has low self-esteem. S

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Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward

2015 mass shooting near Moneta, Virginia, U.S.

On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber of commerce, when all three were attacked by a gunman in a shooting. Parker, age 24, and Ward, age 27, died at the scene, while Gardner survived.^[5]

The gunman was 41-year-old Vester Lee Flanagan II, a former reporter at WDBJ who had been fired in 2013 for disruptive conduct.^[6] After a five-hour manhunt, Flanagan shot himself in the head during a car chase with police officers and died later at a hospital.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Events

Murders

At the time of the shooting, Alison Parker and Adam Ward were conducting a live interview with Vicki Gardner at Moneta's Bridgewater Plaza about upcoming eve

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Participant Info

First Name: Alison

Last Name: Parker

Country: United States

State: DE Delaware

Email: aparker@udel.edu

Affiliation: University of Delaware

Website URL: https://www.history.udel.edu/people/faculty/aparker?uid=aparker

Keywords: African American, biography, women, social movements, legal and constitutional, women's right activism and suffrage, 19th and 20th Century U.S.

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PhD: PhD

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About Me: Alison M. Parker is Chair & Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. She has research and teaching interests in women’s and gender history, African American history, and legal history. In 2017-2018, Parker was an Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University. Her book, Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell is part of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture of the University of North Carolina Pres