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Why the world still remembers James Dean | Culture | Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 08.02.2021
Sid Miller - At 5:45 PM on this day in 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at
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