Former KY Governor Edward Breathitt (D) Falls, in Critical Condition

Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal ^ | 10-11-03 | Pitsch, Mark

[Theodore R.]

Former Gov. Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt, who pushed through Kentucky's landmark civil-rights bill in the mid-1960s, collapsed last night while giving a speech at the University of Kentucky and was in critical condition at UK Medical Center.

Breathitt, 78, was speaking at an appreciation dinner for Lexington Community College volunteers when he stopped in mid-sentence, paused and fell over on his right side about 7:40p.m.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Breathitt, 78, was speaking at an appreciation dinner for Lexington Community College volunteers when he stopped in mid-sentence, paused and fell over on his right side about 7:40p.m.

Creepy coincidence...

Another Kentucky politician collapsed (and in this case died) in the middle of a speech in 1956. Alben Barkley, who was a long-term Senator from Kentucky, then was Vice President under Truman, was again elected to the Senate in 1954. He was making a speech at Washington & Lee University in 1956. He said "I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty," and then fell over, dead of a heart attack.

Like Breathitt, Barkley was 78. And like Breathitt, he was in Lexington (Kentucky in the case of Breathitt; Virginia in the case of Barkley).

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