related problems, including  John Wayne (I) (qv), Susan Hayward (I) (qv),  Pedro Armendáriz (qv) (who shot himself to death soon after  learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead (qv),  Thomas Gomez (qv), John Hoyt (I) (qv) and director  Dick Powell (I) (qv). People magazine researched the subsequent  health of the cast and crew, which it published in November 1980. By  the time of the articles publication, 91 of the 220 members of the  films cast and crew had contracted cancer, and half of these had  died from the disease. The figures did not include several hundred  local American Indians who served as extras on the set. Nor did it  include relatives who had visited cast and crew members on the set,  such as the Dukes son Michael Wayne (I) (qv). The People article  quoted the reaction of a scientist from the Pentagons Defense  Nuclear Agency to the news: "Please, God, dont let us have killed  John Wayne (I) (qv)".