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On Sunday, May 8, 1988, two gunmen wearing ski masks entered the cartoonist's home through an unlocked door, planning to kidnap Jean Schulz, but the attempt failed when the couple's daughter, Jill, drove up to the house, prompting the would-be kidnappers to flee. She saw what was happening and called the police from a neighbor's house. Sonoma County Sheriff Dick Michaelsen said, "It was obviously an attempted kidnap-ransom. This was a targeted criminal act. They knew exactly who the victims were." Neither Schulz nor his wife was hurt during the incident.<ref>[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB72DB00CB05CFA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Cartoonist's Home Invaded in Apparent Kidnap Attempt". ''San Jose Mercury News'', May 13, 1988.]</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eXsUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7wIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3975,2195263&dq=kidnap+charles-schulz&hl=en "Good grief, it's a kidnap attempt". ''Toledo Blade'', May 13, 1988.]</ref>
In 1998, Schulz hosted the first Over 75 Hockey Tournament. In
In addition to his lifelong interest in comics, Schulz was also interested in art in general; his favorite artist in later years was [[Andrew Wyeth]].<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/McGrath-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 New York Times: Review of "Schulz and Peanuts"</ref> As a young adult Schulz also developed a great passion for classical music. Although the character Schroeder in ''Peanuts'' adored [[Ludvig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], Schulz said in an interview with [[Gary Groth]] in 1997 (published in The Comics Journal #200) that his own favorite classical composer was actually [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]].
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