Two Hollywood stars also paid tribute to Smith via recorded segments: Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman. Each of the Academy Award-winning actors narrated a pair of video segments that paid homage to Smith ...

FILE – Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and CEO of FedEx Corporation is seen before the first half of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles, ...

Frederick W. Smith, who revolutionized express delivery as the founder and longtime chief executive of FedEx, a company that became so ubiquitous its name gained currency as a verb, died June ...

Frederick W. "Fred" Smith, whose Yale term paper sketching a coast-to-coast overnight-delivery network drew only a "C," used the same blueprint six years later to launch Federal Express FDX ...

FedEx Corp. founder Frederick W. Smith underwent heart-bypass surgery but is expected to return soon to his duties as chairman and chief executive of the overnight-delivery company. Mr.