Gunpowder Chronicle posted on April 5, 2008 10:25 PM | Rating:
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Charlton Heston has died at 84.
May he rest in peace.
One of Heston's most famous roles was as Judah Ben-Hur, based on the novel by my great-great-grandfather, Major General (Brevet) Lew Wallace, former military governor of Maryland and minister plenopetentiary to the Ottoman Empire.
Wallace -- with his friend Robert Ingersoll -- was an avowed atheist at the time, and was researching the great libraries of Europe and the Middle East to disprove Christianity. He couldn't, and became a steadfast believer. Ben-Hur, A Tale of the Christ was an emphatic product of his faith.