Caitlin Doughty (born August 19, 1984) is an American mortician, author, blogger, and YouTube personality known for advocating death acceptance and the reform of Western funeral industry practices.
 She is the creator of the web series "Ask a Mortician", founder of The Order of the Good Death, and author of the bestselling book "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory", published in 2014 by W.W. Norton and Company.
Bernie is a 2011 American black comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, and written by Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth.
 The film stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey.
 It is based on a 1998 "Texas Monthly" magazine article by Hollandsworth, "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas," that chronicles the 1996 murder of 80-year-old millionaire Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas by her 39-year-old companion, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede.
 Tiede proved so highly regarded in Carthage that, in spite of having confessed to the police, the district attorney was eventually forced to request a rare prosecutorial change of venue in order to secure a fair trial.
Shin splints, also known as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), is defined by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons as "pain along the inner edge of the shinbone (tibia)."
 Shin splints are usually caused by repeated trauma to the connective muscle tissue surrounding the tibia.
 They are a common injury affecting athletes who engage in running sports or other forms of physical activity, including running and jumping.
 They are characterized by general pain in the lower region of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
 Shin splints injuries are specifically located in the middle to lower thirds of the anterior or lateral part of the tibia, which is the larger of two bones comprising the lower leg.
Based in Washington, D.C., Leadership for Healthy Communities is a $10-million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to engage and support local and state government leaders nationwide in their efforts to advance public policies that support healthier communities and prevent childhood obesity.
 The program places an emphasis on policies with the greatest potential for increasing sustainable opportunities for physical activity and healthy eating among children at highest risk for obesity, including African-American, Latino, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian-American and Pacific Islander children living in lower-income communities.
 The foundation's primary goal is the reversal of the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
One strike, you're out is a colloquial term for a policy which allows tenants living in housing projects or otherwise receiving housing assistance from the federal government to be evicted if they, or any guest or visitor under their more-or-less direct control, engage in certain types of criminal activity on or, in some cases, even off the premises of said housing.
 This term is used because housing authorities do not have to offer a second chance.
 The term is apparently a back-formation of the "three strikes, you're out" concept embodied in the mandatory sentencing laws for repeat criminal offenders that began to be enacted in various American states in the 1990s.
The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late nineteenth century and had a profound influence on feminism well into the twentieth century.
 The term "New Woman" was coined by writer Sarah Grand in her article "The New Aspect of the Woman Question," published in the "North American Review" in March 1894.
 The term was further popularized by British-American writer Henry James, to describe the growth in the number of feminist, educated, independent career women in Europe and the United States.
 Independence was not simply a matter of the mind: it also involved physical changes in activity and dress, as activities such as bicycling expanded women's ability to engage with a broader more active world.
 The New Woman pushed the limits set by male-dominated society, especially as modeled in the plays of Norwegian Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906).
The Armed Forces Service Medal (AFSM) is a military award of the United States military that was created on January 11, 1996 by President Bill Clinton under .
 The AFSM is a deployed service medal that is presented to those service members who engage in "significant activity" for which no other U.S. campaign or service medal is authorized.
Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede II ( ; born August 2, 1958) is an American mortician and convicted murderer.
 Tiede confessed to the shooting of a wealthy 81-year-old widow, Marjorie "Marge" Nugent, in Carthage, Texas on November 19, 1996.
 The murder is the subject of the 2011 film "Bernie," directed by Richard Linklater and starring Jack Black as Tiede.
The ABA Museum of Law, opened in November 1996 in Chicago, Illinois by the American Bar Association, was the only national museum that focuses on the role of law and the legal profession in America and throughout the world.
 Its goal was to engage the public in the legal system and make it relevant in their lives.
 In an effort to increase understanding of lawyers and the work they do, the museum highlighted lawyers who were well known for other work as well as well-known trials.
Frank Flanner (December 5, 1854-February 17, 1912) was an American mortician, woodcarver, philanthropist and humanitarian.

Question: What activity did an American mortician engage in in 1996?
Answer: murder