{"id":159640,"date":"2025-09-21T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159640\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:04:08","slug":"charlie-kirk-latest-thousands-enter-stadium-for-charlie-kirk-memorial-where-trump-will-lead-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159640\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk latest: Thousands enter stadium for Charlie Kirk memorial where Trump will lead tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who was Charlie Kirk?published at 17:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>17:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charlie Kirk, is a dark blue blazer with red tie, speaks into a microphone placed on a lectern in front of a light blue backdrop.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4ccf781d-640d-4abb-96c3-ffe22dfd4edc.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The son of an architect who grew up in the well-to-do Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights, Kirk attended an Illinois community college before dropping out to devote himself to political activism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also applied unsuccessfully for West Point, the elite US military academy. Kirk often referred tongue-in-cheek to his lack of a college degree when debating students and academics on esoteric topics such as post-modernism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was an avid public speaker, touring the country addressing Republican events, many of which were popular with members of the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement, and his daily talk radio show had millions of followers on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turning Point, which he started at age 18, aimed to spread conservative ideals at liberal-leaning US colleges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event at Utah Valley University, where he was gunned down, was the first stop on a planned 15-event &#8220;American Comeback Tour&#8221; of college campuses, where attendees were invited to argue with Kirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who was Charlie Kirk?published at 17:03 BST 17:03 BST Image source, Getty Images The son of an architect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-159640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}