Q: Is Nydia Tisdale still being prosecuted by Dawson County?
—Don Penovi, Atlanta
A: The citizen journalist's criminal case is still active. Tisdale was charged with one felony and two misdemeanors after her August 2014 arrest at a political rally in Dawsonville.
“A calendar call is scheduled on April 9 to schedule a trial date — contingent on the ruling from the judge,” Tisdale told Q&A on the News in an email.
She said she learned Tuesday that a pre-trial hearing that was scheduled for April 11 in Dawsonville had been cancelled.
“Judge Bonnie C. Oliver will issue her ruling in writing,” she wrote.
Q: Margaret Truman had four sons. Are they still alive?
—Jean Higgins, Atlanta
A: Three of former President Harry S. Truman's grandsons are living, Sam Rushay, supervisory archivist with the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, told Q&A on the News.
Margaret Truman, the president’s daughter, married E. Clifton Daniel Jr., a former New York Times managing editor, in 1956. They had four sons: Clifton Truman Daniel, William Wallace Daniel, Harrison Gates Daniel and Thomas Washington Daniel. William Wallace Daniel died in September 2000 when he was struck by a cab in New York City, the New York Times reported.
Clifton Truman Daniel, the oldest grandson, is author of “Growing Up With My Grandfather: Memories of Harry S. Truman” and “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman’s Letters to Harry Truman, 1919-1943.” He is honorary chairman of the board of the Truman Library Institute, the nonprofit partner of the Truman Library.
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