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U.S. Marine Corps in 1980, in 91, joined HMX1 flying George H. W. Bush & Clinton. In 2006 became Commanding Officer flying Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Retired 2011
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Born 1895 One of oldest people in the world. Lives in Fance
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Author. Daughter of Pierre & Marie Curie
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Former East-German Politician, Member of the Central Committee of the East-German party SED, lives in Leegebruch
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Civil rights figure, Montgomery bus boycott. Her mother was a lifelong childhood friend of Rosa Parks, and Lacey as a young woman worked as an assistant to the MIA, led by Martin Luther King to organize the bus boycott after Parks' arrest
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Civil Rights figure (1926-2016). Montgomery Police Department (1948-70), Officer and Police Chief. Pictured in iconic photo of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also seen in a photo booking Martin Luther King Jr. the follow
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Israeli world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering; born April 2, 1936 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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Civil Rights Activist
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Diplomat. was the senior American official held hostage during the Iran hostage crisis
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WW2/Radio & Radar Operator on Avenger Torpedo Bomber, which carried a crew of three
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Dallas Morning News photographer who, among other pics, took the photo of Jackie Kennedy leaving Parkland Hospital to ride in the hearse carrying President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's body to Love Field
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Centenarian (1899-2005). One of the last living Canadian WWI veterans
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Holocaust Survivor deported to Auschwitz concentration camp from hometown of Lodz Poland in 1944, aged 14 on arrival at camp, was originally separated her from twin sister Miriam by camp physician Josef Mengele and sent to the crematorium
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Officer and pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during WWII. (Born 1918). Buchenwald concentration camp survivor
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Retired Air Force member, worked as an VIP Air Force Crew Member, served various times on Air Force One, Air Force Two, and First Lady Missions. Lead Usher for President George H W Bush Funeral. Traveled w/several Presidents, First Ladies and other distin
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hypnotist
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JFK Secret Service
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Poet/Writer/Holocaust Survivor/'Threads : Poetry of a Survivor of Auschwitz' by Maria Landowska (1985)
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Former Assistant Administrator of Parkland Hospital, on duty at time of JFK and Oswald shootings. Coordinated the hospital's response. Gave his jacket to bloodied Clint hill, who had put his over Kennedy on arrival. Made calls to get a priest and a casket
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Was photographed in the Pulitzer Prize Photo The Soiling of Old Glory Taken by Stanley Forman. 1977
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Meet Kennedy in Fort Worth on the 22nd, 1963 & shook his hand/Arlington Heights student
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The fifth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1900
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Worlds smartest man.
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Author and youngest police officer ever hired on the Omaha Police Department at age 18. He worked as a uniformed officer and as a detective in the Burglary, Vice, and Narcotics Units retired after a twenty-six-year career
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det. o.j. simpson case
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Television journalist, anchor, & author/Became friends with Muhammad Ali & F. Lee Bailey, & considered Martin Luther King, Jr. to be a personal mentor/Roomed with Mahalia Jackson/wrote Anne and Emmett/1st black 'weathergirl' for WBBM-TV
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Lt. Gen. Michael Langley is set to become the first Black four-star general in the Marines' 246-year history
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Ohio native, age 119 (born 1892); cannot be verified as a world record due to no birth certificate
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Alien encounter participant, born 1943. Hidden under a bed with his siblings while adult family and friends fought off unusual beings outside their house during the 'Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter' of 1955
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Miss America 1925
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Wife of former mobster Meyer Lansky
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Partner of Pablo Picasso, born in 1926
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Whistleblower..reported plutoniun handling, won 250,000 lawsuit
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JFK - US Secret Service 1959-1983; Kennedy detail 1961-1963, after that assigned to Jacqueline Kennedy detail
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O.f.c tempe police dept. arizona
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Holocaust/Classmate of Anne Frank/Carson Productions executive served as executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman & Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Army captain helped plan invasion of Normandy
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Former C.I.A. Case Officer/Author 'Left of Boom'
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Youngest survivor on Schindler's List. Currently known as Eva Rac-Levi and lives in Givatayim, Israel
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Spanish Civil War Veteran. Bomber Pilot. (Red Army) Born: 1914
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Centenarian (1898-2005). US WWI veteran, last WWI vet in Nevada. Barely survived the 1918 Flu on shipride to France, but recovered. Drove a truck in France transporting sick/injured to hospitals
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James Lawson (2)
United Methodist pastor and civil rights activist -
Secret Service agent for Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. Planned advance details for JFK trips to Ireland, Berlin, and Dallas. Drove the lead motorcade car ahead of Kennedy's limo when shooting occurred
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Last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania Born: 02/1915 Lives in Northamptonshire, England
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JFK - Secret Service 1962-1982. In Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated
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Mathematician, born 1926. Knew Einstein, worked on the Manhattan Project (WWII). Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986
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Jonestown survivor, author of the book 'Seductive Poison'
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Former american pilot,flown over 150 types of Aircraft,has had 18 world speed records--his father was bill lear invented the lear jet
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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Dallas Police Detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald at the moment he was shot by Jack Ruby, Pearl Harbor Veteran on the USS Whitney on December 7,1941
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Miss America 1935
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Marine police dog handler and the subject of the Megan Leavey story
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United States Air Force general officer. She became the United States Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing
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JFK - Filmed JFK on Main Street in Dallas, 22 Nov 1963; you still can see Clint Hill riding the presidential car
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WW2 Iwo Jima Marine/Combat engineer, had the job of sneaking up and hurling satchels loaded with explosives into Japanese machine-gun nests and caves
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US WWII era veteran, born 1928. Enlisted at 18 in 1946, served as a guard at Sugamo prison during the Tokyo Trials (the Nuremburg counterpart for Japanese war criminals), became the Chief Jailer there
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Former drug dealer convicted of espianoge against the USA for the Soviet Union-friend of Chris Boyce
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Civil rights figure, born 1937. First integrated class of a Tennessee public school, 1955. Later, did local sit-ins. Career developing lasers, semiconductors and fiber optics. Saw Eisenhower at Union Station during a DC trip in the 1950s
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Opened the first drop-in center for children in Hollywoo
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Irish retired nurse and activist, lives in St. Albans, England (born March 24, 1933) Main character of a true story based on the book 'The Lost Child of Philomena Lee' by Martin Sixsmith. The book was filmed in 2013 as a 'Philomena'
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Retired Marine Officer who served on the ?Death Watch? for President John F. Kennedy?s casket following the assassination
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self-acclaimed witch
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Spy/Lt. Gen. Mary Legere, current Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence US Army, could be poised to make history. Is the leading candidate to take over as chief of the Pentagon?s main spy organization, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
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Private Secretary of Franklin Roosevelt & aledged mistress. This is supported by his Son Elliot
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Hitlers messenger boy, author, peace activist
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Great-grandson of David Mitchell, the train driver who perished in the Tay Bridge Disaster, December 28, 1879.He was one of 59 who died in the tragedy, considered the most catastrophic structural failure in British history. Lives in Scotland, UK
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French lecturer, survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen - Belsen camps and witness to the Holocaust. Born in 1932
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Daughter of Lord Reith, the founder of the BBC
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Pioneering gay rights activist and writer, born 1935. President of NYC Mattachine Society in the 60s, the premiere gay rights group before Stonewall. Led 1966 NYC gay 'Sip-In' protest, and covered Stonewall as a reporter, whose on-scene account was the fi
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US Air Force Gen. & VP running mate of George Wallace in 1968/ credited designing & implementing effective, but controversial systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of WW2/headed Berlin airlift
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Friend of Linda Thompson, former secretary of Vernon Presley (Elvis' father)
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Supreme Court: Social worker and civil rights activist, lead plaintiff in the landmark First Amendment case Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
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Nurse on duty at Parkland Memorial on Nov. 24/63 , Sally assisted Dr. Gustafson with emergency treatment of Lee Harvey Oswald
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Aka the Dancing Cop, retired American police officer who danced while directing traffic in Providence, Rhode Island during the December holiday season
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age five time of fire
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Former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Division. Congress ordered her to testify about the IRS-Tea Party Scandal, she pleaded the 5th Amendment
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Born 1924, WW2 Veteran, Ritchie Boy
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Grand-daughter of Scottish lighthouse engineer Charles Stevenson. Lives in the UK
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, British Battalion, Lives in London, Born: 1915
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Physics professor who has investigated crop circles for more than a decade in the UK and USA. He is a member of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network
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Canadian journalist and former speechwriter for the Israeli Delegation to the United Nations and for an Anglophone audience for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Co-founder of the software company Figure 1
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Holocaust Survivor - Schindler's List
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Manhattan Project scientist, born 1921. Harvard chemistry grad recruited to work at the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge facility to help enrich Uranium 235, used in the Hiroshima bomb. Continued his work into the Cold War era
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One of the last witnesses to The Battle of Cable Street that took place in 1936 in Cable Street,London. (Born: 1915) He lives in London, UK
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famous White House intern
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One of the many survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. She was 13 years old when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. She is now 88 and lives in Harvest, Alabama, USA
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Jeanette Lewis (2)RN at Parkland Memorial Hospital in '63 , an ER supervisor asked her to get a body bag for the President
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Kent State student shot in the stomach and leg during the 1970 shooting, the closest to the line of fire of all the students hit
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A Dallas Police Det. in 1963 , Lewis administered a polygraph exam to Oswald witness Buell Wesley Frazier on Nov. 22 , '63 ,
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Assassination witness , employee at Texas School Book Depository , said he heard three shots fired at JFK's motorcade
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Ted Lewis (3)One of the many survivors of the Blitz, a series of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. He was a teenager at the time. He is now in his eighties and lives in London
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Youngest of schindler's list holocaust survivors. mr. leyson was born in poland and went to work in schindler's factory at age 13. he died january 12, 2013 in california at age 83
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CIA Leak Scandal, former chief of staff
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Professor predicted Trump's election/Expert witness in more than 75 civil & voting rights cases. Author, White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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Survivor of the '1953 North Sea flood'. (Born: 1947) She was six years old at the time of the flood and remembers when the North Sea came crashing inland. She lives in Canvey Island, Essex, UK
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JFK - Assistant counsel to the Warren Commission
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Holocaust Survivor/Age 14 when sent to Auschwitz/Allowed to leave a few months after arriving because of a clerical error regarding her birthday & was sent off to do hard labor in various parts of the country/Age 85
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Supercentenarian Born 1906 3rd oldest person in France
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Known for her appearance in a newsreel filmed in 1945. She is directing traffic behind the Brandenberg Gate. Is said to be living in the village of Zvonaryovka in the Saratov region of Russia
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Author/Iran Hostage Crisis/Political Officer/Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy in August 2006 after retiring from the Foreign Service with 33 years of service and the rank of Minister-Counselor
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Architect, designed Vietnam memorial in Washington
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Attorney, V.P. & Council - GIC; 'pitcher' on the front of the 2008 Topps baseball card titled 'Kazuo Uzuki' that was released by Topps as an April Fools Day joke for this former Law Blog Student
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Oldest Living Arkansan Born:09/30/1897
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First lady to get breast implants, in 1962
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Retired engineer/oilman (Born: 1948) who was part of the team who found the the first 'black gold' in the North Sea in 1970. Lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Also known as Rob 'Swede' Lingard
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Witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952 and caused the deaths of 4,000 people. It is considered the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom. He was 7 at the time and is now 71
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Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, KCVO 05/10/1848?10/2/1931 Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage was a self-made man, merchant & yachtsman. Created the Lipton tea brand & was the most persistent challenger in history of America's Cup
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Doctor at Methodist Hospital in Dallas , Texas who pronounced Officer Tippitt dead on Nov. 22 , 1963
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Vietnam Helicopter Pilot/(by his own estimation, nearly the worst helicopter pilot in his class), recounts the events leading up to & during a daring 7-hour rescue mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail that he organized on Easter Sunday, 1967
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Malcolm X's sister
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BBC Light Entertainment Producer during the early years of television
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A Jr. at SMU , was asked to play Taps Nov. 22 as classes dismissed at local Elem. School
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JFK - Secret Service, White House starting 1963; protected LBJ's youngest daughter on the day of President Kennedy?s assassination. 35th Sgt. at Arms, House of Representatives; he announced 'Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States'
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JFK related/Bay of Pigs Frogman/Stated; 'Ammunition was all we needed,' Chiqui Llama says. 'We blamed Kennedy. I think Kennedy was yellow.' Lives in Puerto Rico
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Worlds Oldest Mother
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Last surviving witness to 'The Sutton Hoo excavation' in 1939, considered to be one of the most important excavation's made in British archaeological history. She lives in Chester, UK and is now 84 years old
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Daughter of silent movie star Harold Lloyd
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American architect and the grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright
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Security Officer at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought there after the assassination
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One of the doctors who tried to save JFK's life after being shot
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Ww2 veteran N. Africa and Italy
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French Resistance Fighter. Born: 08/29/1910
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Oldest French Person Born 1892 - Deceased 2006
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Canadian wife of Ewric Lomax, worked on the Burma death railway while a Japanese POW. 'The Railway Man' movie is based on his life
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Joe Long (4)
The News Director of KLIF in Dallas , Joe reported on President Kennedy's arrival at Love Field -
Retired Air Force General
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A reporter for ABC News who reported from Dallas when President Kennedy was shot
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American mathematician, coined the term 'butterfly effect:', pioneer of the chaos theory, invented the strange attractor notion
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An employee of the Dallas Morning News , she and three of her co-workers stood ' in the grassy knoll area ' on Nov. 22 , '63 , and said that shots came from behind them and to the right , from direction of wooden fence
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JFK - The famous 'Doorway Man'; he is the man in the Altgens photograph, standing in the doorway of the Texas Schoolbook Depository, watching the Kennedy motorcade on 22 November 1963 in Dallas
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One of the children survivors of the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Church bombing that killed 4 young girls during the civil rights era
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Dallas Police Detective who witnessed the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting from a few feet away
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5th Earl of Lonsdale and English nobleman
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Triage nurse at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought in after shooting
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A campaign worker with Robert Kennedy, he witnessed firsthand the assassination and testified at the trial of Sirhan Sirhan
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Born 15 January 1900 from Bude, Cornwall is a British supercentenarian who, at the age of 110, is the oldest living man in Europe
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The little girl in the famous Daisy Ad commercial during the 1964 presidential campaign for LBJ
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DPD , one of 5 lead motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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(born 22 April 1916) is a French centenarian who was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She provided the inspiration for the character of 'Mademoiselle Lise Lundi' in Tony Gatlif's 2009 film, Korkoro
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Lived with his parents in the amityville house and was exposed to its terrors
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Served on the USS Donner during its recovery mission of Ham the Chimp in 1961 prior to launching the first US man in space months later
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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Daughter of Frances Griffiths. Francis Griffiths and Elsie Wright where two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England in 1917 who took a series of five photographs showing 'The Cottingley Fairies'
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Attorney General of the United States (2015-2017); first African American woman to hold that post
