JTA’s man in L.A. reflects on the ironies of Charlton Heston – a Midwestern WASP who gained fame for playing two super Jews. LOS ANGELES (JTA) – The life of Charlton Heston was marked by ...
based on a photograph taken by Heston’s wife, Lydia Clarke Heston ’45. Charlton Heston, who received the Northwestern Alumni Association Alumni Medal in 1979, died in April 2008 at the age of 84.