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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

March 18, 2010 - 1:43 pm

LOS ANGELES -- Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

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