While millions of us pored over this week’s election results, little was reported about the passing of two prominent Americans: Michael Crichton, the Chicago-born author of such best-sellers as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, as well as the creator of the television series ER, died of cancer in Los Angeles at 66 (read the complete Los Angeles Times obit); and on Monday, Cecil Stoughton, “the chief photographer for the Kennedy White House, who documented its glittering public moments and its intimate private ones, and who captured its sudden end in one of the signal images of the 20th century — Lyndon B Johnson’s swearing-in as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963 [pictured above, view the full image here] — died on Monday” at 88 (read the complete New York Times obit). RIP.