Les Whitt

Conservationist, Deceased Person

1951 – 2008

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Who was Les Whitt?

Robert Leslie Whitt, known as Les Whitt, was the award-winning director of Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana, having served from 1974 until his death from heart complications only six days prior to what would have been his 57th birthday. Whitt was also a musician who mastered a Hammond B-3 organ and played with B.B. King and B.B. Major, whom he had accompanied at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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Born
Aug 22, 1951
Natchez
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Aug 16, 2008
Ochsner Medical Center

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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