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Ace (5 kills - 2 in WWII & 3 in Korean War)- USAAF/USAF, p-47, f-86, me 109
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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Fictionalized as Radar O'Reilly in 1968 novel MASH by Richard Hornberger. Vietnam/Korean Vet, Spent his last 20 years in military intelligence
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Criminal: accused of helping to kill his three sisters and mother
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Criminal killed his 3 daughters and first ex-wife
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Woman who claimed to be the nurse being kissed by the sailor in Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous VJ Day 1945 photo on the cover of Life Magazine
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Former Israeli soldier who was held captive by Hamas for five years
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WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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'Band of Brothers' '101st Airbourne Division, 506th Parahute Infantry Regiment, Easy Company' 'Battlefield Commission- Normandy'
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Acting Secretary of Defense Jan 2019 -
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Medusa
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Space Exploration: Developer working at Kodak: Lunar Close - Up Camera. He tested the film to be used in the Apollo Lunar Surface Close - up Camera to be taken to the moon. His job was to ensure the film didn't fog and could advance properly
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Security Officer at Parkland Memorial on Nov.22 , 1963 when President Kennedy and Governor Connolly were brought there after assassination
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Went to same school as Lee Harvey Oswald for two grades ? third and 11th/ Oswald soon dropped out, and Shannon wouldn't? really think about him again for a few years until the Assassination of JFK
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Tarawa. USMC. Pictured in a photograph of the battle transporting wounded through shallow water. 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division
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American radio journalist for NPR
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Chaired first meeting with the Network Working Group to create the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications. Pioneer of the internet
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Lawyer & President & CEO of Consumer Technology Association. Author of The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream. Inducted into the Academy of Digital TV Pioneers. Received award as most influential in advancing HDTV
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Lawyer
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American attorney, sports agent, author, negotiator, educator, speaker, and civic leader. Founded Shapiro Advisors, the Shapiro Negotiations Institute and Shapiro Sher. Appeared on GMA, CNBC, Larry King, NPR, etc. Hosted a weekly TV show
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Merican mathematician and economist. With Alvin E. Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
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Flight scientist, NASA Official
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WWII veteran. At a retirement home in Florida, he discovered his good friend and neighbor was a German WWII veteran who'd fought against him at the Bridge at Remagen, and whose outfit had taken the neighbor POW
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Israli politician and writer
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Gerald Shargel (born October 5, 1944) is an American defense attorney based in New York City who has been a member of the New York Bar since 1969. He is widely regarded as one of the best lawyers in America - The New Yorker in a 10,000 word profile said h
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cosmonaut
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Spitfire Pilot, one of the few female Air Transport Auxiliary pilots
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First Indian In Space
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Worlds most flexible man. Lives in India
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cosmonaut
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2015 inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Was A Honor Guard For JFK FuneralHe lives in Columbus, NEB
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Guinness World Records holder for the longest-lasting hip replacement. He was the first patient on the NHS to have hips replaced 67 years ago. He is now 91 and lives in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK
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nobel med. laureate 1993
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Californian geologist, best known for his studies of The Moving Rocks of Death Valley
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4 Star General
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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nobel chemistry laureate 2001 and 2022
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Reverend, Civil Rights Activist, Former Presidential Candidate
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Cosmonaut; among other missions, crew member of Soyuz 10, the world's first mission to the world's first space station (Salyut 1) in April 1971
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Patterson. The Navy credited him with shooting down a Japanese plane during the attack on 7 December 1941
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air force general association executive
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Israeli reporter and writer. Was a senior correspondent at the left-of-center Israeli newspaper Haaretz before he resigned when a pattern of sexual misconduct came to public attention. Drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1975
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Co Founder and the face on the Burt's Bee's packaging
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Andy Shaw (3)
Member Sioux Tribe stationed Japan 24th Infantry Div./Survivor Korean Death March/29th Reg. Combat Team/Captured Oneui 7/26/1950 marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW 3 months one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured -
An army helicopter pilot , on Nov. 21 he took Pres. and Mrs. Kennedy from the White House to Andrew's Air Base
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew three space shuttle missions
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Born 1955, game designer / programmers - Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter River Raid (1982)
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Teen US Merchant Marine of WWII, born 1927. One of the last survivors to attend the 2022 Congressional Gold Medal award ceremony in Washington
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of the Bulge
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Jack Shaw (2)
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John Shaw (2)Artist, Aviation Art, Band of Brothers paintings
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Honor Guard for PresidentsGerald Ford & Richard Nixon
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JFK - Main surgeon to treat Gov. Connally at Parkland after being shot in assassination of President Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963
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Disarmed a gunman at the 2018 Nashville Waffle House shooting
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British Chief Prosecutor Nuremberg Trials/His most famous line 'There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.'
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, first wave. A Penobscot Indian who was a medic in the 1st U.S. Infantry Division (16th Infantry Regiment). D-Day was his first day in combat
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former member of the British Security Service (MI5)
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John Shea (3)John 'Red' Shea - Irish-American Author and former Boston Criminal involved in narcotics, an associate of crime kingpin Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang during the 1980s and 1990s - 'Rat Bastards', 'A Kid from Southie'
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(born 1949) is an American freelance writer and UFO skeptic. He is a paranormal investigator of unidentified flying objects, having researched many sightings and written critiques of the hypothesis that UFOs are alien spacecraft
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Florida Skunk Ape Specialist
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Jack Shearer (2)
Member of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization -
WWII: Melvin served in the US Army in the 6th Ranger Battalion where participated in the Great Raid at Cabanatuan in the Phillipines and was awared the Bronze Star Medal for his actions
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Israel professor of Materials Science. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 'the discovery of quasicrystals'.[3]
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. 5th Marines
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Iraq War/George Bush protester, peace activist
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Oldest living Navy World War 2 Veteran. Born: May 17, 1906
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WW2 Lt.Col./served with the 38th Cavalry Squadron of 102nd Cavalry Group during the Battle of the Bulge/Born Sept. 18, 1919/a reconnaissance unit tasked with patrolling the forests of the Ardennes region when battle broke out on 12/16/1944
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Judge, 'The People's Court'
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Emergency Room Nurse at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy and Governor Connolly brought there on Nov. 22 , 1963
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JFK assassination witness
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English scientist. He is known for having proposed an unorthodox account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology and telepathy
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WWII - Ball-turret Gunner of B-17 "Big Yank", 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
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Danny Shelton (2)Founder and President of Three Angels Broadcasting network. He currently owns 8 24/7 TV shows and owns over 100 television stations in the US. He is also a songwriter and best selling author
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Longtime political reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, Shelton traveled with the presidential party during the November 1963 trip to Texas and later covered the Jack Ruby trial
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Lyle Shelton (2) (Born 1937) US Marine Corps Vietnam veteran who served from 1955 to 1963
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 99th Infantry Division
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4-Star General, Born Feb 25, 1954
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Chinese Australian painter and former Red Guard of Chinese Cultural Revolution. Painted the first official portrait of Pope Francis
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WWII: ETO. US Army Air Corps. B-17 'Jersey Mosquito', 774th Bomber Squadron, 463 Bomber Group. Shot down on April 6, 1944, over Yugoslavia. POW for 13 months
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper. Flew into Normandy aboard C-47 Skytrain 42-92841 'Turf & Sport Special' and dropped to St. Mere-Eglise on June 6, 1944.Normandy, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. E Co, 2nd Bn, 508th PIR, 82nd AB
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First American in space, Apollo 14 moonwalker
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Police officer during the 1966 University of Austin shooting
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Scientist and author that invented the Shepard's Tone
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JFK - US Navy rear admiral; naval aide to President John F. Kennedy.
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Daughter of first American astronaut Alan Shepard. Laura performed a suborbital space flight aboard Blue Origins NS-19
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US Army Deserter applied for asylum in Germany
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Aviator
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Super - Centenarian
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astronaut
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Tuskegee airmen ww2, flew the curtiss p-40, p-39-q, p-47d, p-51 c, p-51 d
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Military figure
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Was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the Secretary of State (1950-1952) and Attorney General (1953-1957) for the U.S. state of Texas. Also served in the U.S. Army during WWII
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Holocaust survivor
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Oldest man to climb Mt Everest at age 76; from Nepal
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astronaut
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Navy Admiral, last skipper of USS Lexington,
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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Practicing criminal-defense attorney
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Co-Inventor of Scotchgard
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The oldest of the four surviving Sherpas from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He is now 90+ and lives in Namche Bazaar, Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal
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Mountain climber
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Last surviving Sherpa from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He is now 82 and lives in Namche Bazaar, Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal. Also known as Fura Kancha Sherpa
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Mountain climber
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Record Breaking Mountaineer
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One of the four surviving Sherpas from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He now lives in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
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One of the four surviving Sherpas from the 1953 Everest Expedition. He now lives in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
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American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20. Received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award for the 'Hunger Inside' a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia
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air force general
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'Royal Air Force Crewman'
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Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941, USS Arizona
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British Magician who took a famous photograph of 'The Loch Ness Monster' in 1977, which is widely considered a hoax
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Japanese politician (1887-1957). WWII Foreign Affairs Minister and post-war Deputy Prime Minister. Signed the WWII Instrument of Surrender, as Japan's representative
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Japanese founder and former leader of the now disbanded Japanese Red Army, currently imprisoned in Japan
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American economist, academic, and best-selling author. Together with Eugene F. Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, would receive the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2013
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(1916-2002) AVG Flying Tigers CNA & Captain/Hump Pilot with 700 flights Pre-WW2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tgiLSkcvN4
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WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. Long and prominent career as an illustrator after the war, working for National Geographic, Life, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and NASA
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Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Helena. Survived only as he had swiched shifts with a friend
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Nobel Chemistry 2008
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Supercentenarian Born 1897. Colts Fan
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009-present)
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Was one of the first women in the U.S. to become a pilot for a major airline
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Retired Navy SEAL. He investigates phony Navy SEALs, and puts the videos on YouTube
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Tuskegee Airman, crew chief
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Famous film historian and film writer. Author of renowned film histories and a biography of Judy Garland
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Dallas reporter with TV station WFAA. Covered the Kennedy assassination and interviewed the Beatles in the 1960s
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Saw JFK motorcade as a seventh grader with family and classmates standing in front of the Old Courthouse. Moments later she heard the fatal gunshots, and her uncle said he thought someone must have shot the President
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Wrote under the name Lee Shippey, American author & journalist whose romance with a French woman during WWI caused a sensation in the US as a 'famous war triangle.' Shippey later wrote a popular column in the Los Angeles Times for 22 years
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895 Lives in Japan
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nobel chem. laureate 2000
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JFK - trauma surgeon; operated on John Connally and Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Also known for his research on shock, which initiated the current practice of giving saline to trauma and surgical patients
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu
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John Shirley (2)Honor Guard For President Gerald Ford
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New Zealand WWII Veteran, Telegraphist in the Royal New Zealand Navy
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Author- L.Frank Baum:Royal Historian of Oz
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Commander of British Troops in Iraq
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. US Army
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(born 1947 in what is now Tanzania) was the primary designer of the 1985 Atari ST computer, and one of the engineers of the Commodore 64
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Chinese biologist. 'The Father of Chinese Biophysicics' Born: 10/10/1903
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astronaut
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American businessman, former hedge fund manager, and convicted, currently incarcerated felon
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WWII Soviet Veteran, Rifleman, Battle of Stalingrad Platoon Commander and Signal Officer, Baltic Region, Tashkent. Lives in Canada, possibly Calgary. Born 1924 Minsk, Belarus
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Physician oldest man to circle the globe born 1907
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geologist astronomer
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army general
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WWII: ETO. Pilot, 100th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force ('Bloody 100th'). B-17 #42-31767 'Our Gal Sal', the only B-17 of the 351st Squadron returning from the murderous 6 March 1944 raid on Berlin
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(1935-1997) Was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission on October 11,1969. Shonin died of a heart attack in 1997 at the young age of 61
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One of the seven men who rushed the UT Tower during the shooting, 1 August 1966
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Retired General
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Astronomer
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Decorated general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, became the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Co C, 1st Bn, 23Marines, 4th Marine Division. His comnpany suffered a 94 percent casualty rate on Iwo Jima; only 16 were non-casualties and only 38 returned home
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Planetary Scientist, born 1957. Has so far discovered 3 new rings and six new moons of the solar system, among the outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (now dwarf planet) Pluto
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(born 19 October 1917) is an Indian mathematician with achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He is notable for his breakthrough work with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler
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Founder Of The Special Olympics, Sister To President John F. Kennedy
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NASA astronaut (retired). Flew on three space shuttle missions
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WWII: Soviet partisan fighter, living in a retirement home in central Israel
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Astronaut from Malaysia
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SR-71 Pilot and author of the book 'Sled Driver'. Also Flew A-7 Corsair
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air force general
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Born June 17, 1925, pharmacologist, chemist, artist, and drug developer. known as the Godfather of Ecstacy
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WWII: 34th Field Artillery Battalion (9th Inf Div), operating a 155mm howitzer. North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany. D-Day (Utah Beach), Battle of Remagen 1945
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Born 1894 #26 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in South Carolina.
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Southwest pilot that saved passengers
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2022 Libertarian candidate for PA Lt. Governor
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Flight aviator 1963 group 3 astronaut candidate
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Born 1924 and the last survivor of The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people. It is the deadliest nightclub fire in history
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Miss Oklahoma 1941; that same year she was the first Native American contestant in the Miss America Pageant and was voted Miss Congeniality
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African Americans' rights activist, Former civil rights activist
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Internet Billionaire and 'First African in Space'
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JFK - one of the two FBI agents who attended President Kennedy's autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital on November 22, 1963
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Centenarian (1902-2002). US WWI vet, lied about his age to enlist. Sent to France, fought in trenches
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor/ U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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Jennifer Anne MacKinnon Sidey-Gibbons is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and lecturer. She was selected by the Canadian Space Agency as one of the two members of the 2017 CSA group
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astronaut
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Last living survivor of the Babi Yar Massacre
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Soviet sniper during World War Two. Credited with over five-hundred confirmed kills. Lives in the Republic of Dagestan, near the Caucasus
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Okinawa. 27th Infantry Division
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Civilian Astronaut, Space Ship One
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Civilian test pilot
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Flight scientist, Kennedy Space Center launch director
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Writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in 1982
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American mobster
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(born July 3, 1918) is a lawyer whose work as a housing activist and advocate has spanned over seven decades. Siegel was the first head of New York State?s Civil Rights Bureau and served as New York State?s solicitor general
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Star on Cold Justice, former prosecutor in Texas
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Polish publicist and lawyer, former member of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa (AK)
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(Born 1923) WW2 Bombraider Army Air Corps 384th Bombardment Group
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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American Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Iwo Jima campaign
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Writer/Actvist
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army general finland
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Iraq US Army veteran who left as a sergeant
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Tuskegee Airmen, Author, WWII
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Inventor of Helicoptor
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Watergate Attorney
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KBE (1888-1962) Director general MI5, UK's internal security service, from 46-53/credited breaking the power of the notorious Glasgow razor gangs during 30's/introduced wireless radios allowing communication between headquarters & vehicles
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JFK related/Frogman at Bay of Pigs, lives in Caracas since 70's/Wounded & taken prisoner, Castro refers to these prisoners as 'yellow worms'
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JFK related/Frogman at the Bay of Pigs
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Author and noted authority on Jewish boxing history. Historical consultant and on-air commentator for 19 boxing docs. Former boxing promoter, Inspector with the NY State Athletic Comm, and a member of the International Boxing Research Org
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Co-inventor of Post-It notes with Arthur Fry; developed the adhesive for the notes
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Retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force
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JFK: Jack Ruby's Rabbi, Abraham Zapruder's Rabbi, father of actor Jonathan Silverman
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Thomas Edward Silverstein (born February 4, 1952) is an American convicted murderer. He has been incarcerated continuously since 1977 and has been convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned, one of which was overturned
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Anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels
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At Love Field when JFK arrived 11/22/1963, met him at fence/He headed straight over for us/dumbfounded all I could say was, ?God bless you Mr. President.? afterwards, I realized, that was probably the last time anybody said that to him
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One of the last survivors of The Halifax Explosion that occured on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Canada, was devastated by the huge detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc. He is now 101 and still lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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JFK - Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy, leading the naval troops at the procession; also serving the President in functions prior to the assassínation
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medal of honor marines korean war
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WWII: ETO/PTO. Transported troops to both Utah and Omaha beaches on D - Day on LST-501, later again in the Battle of Okinawa (April 1 ? June 22, 1945)
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Supreme Court: 9 year old child in 1944, she was selling literature in the streets with her religious guardians. Supreme Court ruled she could not sell these, as it broke child labor laws. Parental authority defined as not absolute
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, aboard U.S.S. Utah during attack!
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Flight Attendant Air Force One & special assistant to President Ford for over 30 years http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Lee-Simmons/1317597735
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Simmons with her father & friends at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963, where she watched Air Force One arrive and shook President Kennedy's hand. Less than a month later, she received a letter from Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln
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WWII: PTO. 96th Infantry Division of the Army, Headquarters Company. Battle of Leyte, Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart
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astronaut
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Author, former candidate for US Senate from Maryland
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained for W
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Early NASA
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Officer who served in the German army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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WWII: ETO. German Luftwaffe pilot; flew the Fi 76, Fieseler 156, Fw 58, He 111, He 50, He 51, He 70, Ju 52, Ju 86, Ju 88, Me 109. As an adopted son of Jewish parents, he witnessed the Holocaust in person
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Professional mountain guide since 1973 & has personally conducted over 100 major expeditions around the globe, including over 30 to Himalayas. Recognized internationally as one of the world's premiere mountaineering expedition leaders
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Flown to Space on Missions Soyuz TMA-10 / TMA-9 & Soyuz TMA-14 / TMA-13. Built the organization and applications for Microsoft Word, Excel, & Multiplan. Holds 11 Patents. Active Philanthropist
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Time Team
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First woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in meteorology. She eventually became NASA's lead weather researcher and has authored or co-authored over 190 articles
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Joe Simpson (2) Touching the Void is based on his experiences
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Only female AP reporter working in Texas in !963 , she covered the events of the weekend at the TSBD and later at Police Headquarters . On Sunday she witnessed the shooting of Oswald
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Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Andrea Doria in 1956 (Born: 1947) She was 9 at the time and was one of 1,706 passengers and crew on the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Now aged 69, she lives in the USA
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One of the oldest persons in the United Kingdom, born in 1904. She was one of the survivors of The 1918 flu pandemic aka Spanish Flu, which lasted from June 1918 to December 1920and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million people
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Ralph Simpson (2) WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Meteorologist, hurricane specialist, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (1955-1959), and a former director (1967-1974) of the National Hurricane Center.
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WWII: ETO. 1943-1945, Africa, Italy, France. 45th Infantry Division
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Freedom Rider
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The oldest living woman Marine
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WWII: US Navy. PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid
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American econometrician and macroeconomist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011
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WWII, Berlin Airlift (Chief of Navigation & Briefing), Korea, Master Navigator
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doolittles radiers
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On November 22, 1963, the day of her wedding shower, Sims saw the President's motorcade on Main Street. Previously she had met Ruby when he tried to convince her to audition at the Carousel Club
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Dallas Police Detective in 1963 , on the 22nd was at the Trade Mart , Parkland Memorial and later at the TSBd
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British entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s
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2nd oldest man in Canada born 1911. WWII veteran
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(1901-1965) US Army WW2 Veteran. Served in the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
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Harold Joseph Singer (born October 8, 1919), also known as Hal 'Cornbread' Singer, is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist. Lives in France
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Indian war hero, bearer of Param Vir Chakra
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Chief hangman of Singapore
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Indian-Singaporean WWII veteran. Member of the Indian National Army boys' brigade. Later served for the Singapore Armed Forces
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Indian military - awarded the Victoria Cross in December 1944
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Spy/C.I.A./US Army General
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WW2 Pilot 839th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, B-17 Nose Gunner, 32 Missions
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Firefighter, 9/11
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Navy veteran of 3 wars: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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Wwii: eto/pto. uss anchor
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WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
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He is known for saving the life of United States President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt
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Assasinated Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968; currently serving a life sentence at the California State Prison, Corcoran.
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Chief Judge US District Court for District of Columbia, famous for role in Watergate scandal. He rose to national prominence during the Watergate scandal when he ordered President Nixon to turn over recordings of White House conversations
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Sri Lankan WWII veteran and aviator
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US WWII Navy, born 1924. Sent as part of the occupying forces in Japan at the end of the war. Re-enlisted and served as part of the weather recon air squadron for the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of the Bulge. 915 Artillery Battalion, 90th Division, T.O. ? Tough Ombres
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Republican elector who resigned as an elector rather than vote for Donald Trump
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The world's second-oldest man. Born 1900
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Supercentenarian. Born 1904. French nun
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JFK//At age 16 Sittel saw President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Dallas Love Field
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Carl Leonard Sitter (December 2, 1922 - April 4, 2000) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
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She helped steady Abraham Zapruder as he stood on a concrete pedestal making his famous film of the Kennedy assassination
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Mall of America's first Asian-American Santa Claus
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Former General of the Polish Army (retired)
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Flight aviator WASP
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Flew last F-14 combat mission
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Last survivor of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster. 09/07/2011
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Attorney and Author
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Flight aviator
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. Jack's artillery battery sank the first Japanese ship of the war. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
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Convicted in 2002 of the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, his 15-year-old neighbor in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was sentenced to 20 years to life. Skakel is the nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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Film Historian and Writer
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WWII: Merchant Marine, Arctic convoys
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Military air force general
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Bataan Death March survivor, born 1917
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WWII: Served on the USS Bunker Hill and saved sailors from the ship when she was hit by two Kamikaze on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa)
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Army National Guard Specialist; helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received the US Soldier's Medal and France's Legion of Honor; Dancing With The Stars Season 21
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Fugitive Australian business tycoon
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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army general
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WWII: PTO. A Chief Radioman of the VP44 Patrol Bombing Squadron 'Golden Pelicans', a seaplane squadron flying the PBY-5A Catalina. Battle of Midway. On June 5, 1942, his PYB, sighted the Japanese cruisers Mogami and Mikuma
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Secret Service Agent/Guarded 7 presidents, including JFK, LBJ, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Nixon, duty at the White House on Nov 22
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Sully's heroic co-pilot from Flight 1549
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Boy witness to Hindenburg crash in 1937
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Girl who was born inside of the Statue of Liberty in 1982
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WWII - Flying Ace, 12 victories
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Military
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Vietnam War Navy Veteran. Served from 1969 to 1972. Was aboard the USS Milwaukee (AOR-2). Participated in the Christmas Bombing of 1972. SK3
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Born October 8, 1918 is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate
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WWII: Last remaining Polish survivor of Westerplatte Peninsula, where roughly 200 Polish troops valiently fought off German troops for seven days in September 1939. POW 1939-1941. Considered the opening battle of WWII
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First person to ever let loose a personal computer virus (1982)
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cosmonaut
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Russian cosmonaut. He has had two spaceflights, which were long - duration missions aboard the International Space Station
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Veteran of Polish-Soviet War. Born: 1906. (1920 Battle of Warsaw)
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British expert on conflict, reconciliation and stability, who has worked mainly in the Middle East. She served in Iraq as the political advisor to US General Ray Odierno and General David Petraeus during the surge
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Former United States Navy SEAL/Medal of Honor Recipient
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Double for Queen Elizabeth
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WWII - WASP. Base assignment_ Love Field, Dallas. Flew B-26, B-39
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Crewman on USS Indianapolis/Survivor
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Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technological solutions to global problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a Dutch foundation which develops advanced systems to rid world's oceans of plastic
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JFK Assassination/Age 16 & school let out, above Kennedy's motorcade when he was shot. She 1st mistook the shots fired for a car backfiring. She thinks back to the moment when she returned to school less than an hour after Kennedy was shot
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JetBlue fight attendant who dramatically quit his job by opening the E-chute on his plane and sliding down
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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WWII Manhattan Project
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1922-2009). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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D-Day participant
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WWII - D-Day. D Company, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. 4th wave at Omaha Beach
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WW2 veteran. Nose Gunner on the B17 Flying Fortress
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Warren Commission Assistant Counsel/for the investigation of the JFK Assassination/Author 'Binding Promises'
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Retired General Born Nov. 11, 1924
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Mercury 7 Astronaut
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WWII: Navy veteran. USS Yorktown, USS West Virginia
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WWII: Royal Navy, HMS Anson. Escorting merchant ships on their 'Murmansk runs' in the Arctic convoys. Later served on the HMS Duncan, the HMS Pennywort and the HMS Taff and was involved in patrols along the Burma coast behind enemy lines
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NASA photographer. First person to touch moon dust
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Author, film historian
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WWII: ETO. 101st Airborne Division
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Military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 18th Fighter Group at Wheeler Field
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JFK - Secret Service; not in motorcade, but arrived in Dallas in the afternoon of the 22nd November 1963 to support the investigations; examined TSBD Sixth Floor among other things; began his career under Eisenhower
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Former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal National Mortage Association; Secretary of the Smithsonian (2000-2007)
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navy admiral
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chemnist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Price in Chemistry
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WWII - VJ-Day 14 August 1945. In the famous scene of a sailor kissing a nurse, Mr. Smalley can be seen as a bystander
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Miss America 1926
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Author, speaker and American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She gained national attention at the age of 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Founded Elizabeth Smart Foundation
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Convicted Murderer. Teacher That Seduced Her Student And Had Him Kill Her Husband.
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women's activist
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United States Navy, first captain of the USS Indianapolis. Captain from 15 November 1932 - 10 December 1934
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WWII - Civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Worked as a civilian employer of the Navy in a big hangar, building and repairing aircraft wings
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First blind active duty officer in the Army. Speaker, Veteran, IronMan, Purple Heart recipient and author of Beat Feet: Scotty Smiley's Blind Journey to Ironman (2015) and Fox and Friends (1998)
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Navajo Code Talker during WWII
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WW2 Dunkirk veteran (Born:1919) who served with the Royal Army Service Corps and was rescued from the beach after two days under fire without food or water. Lives in Shoeburyness, southeast Essex, UK
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Last survivor from the sinking of HMS Royal Oak, that was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. He is now 94 and lives in the UK
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She attended Beauregard Junior High at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald
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Battle of Britain pilot
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Ww2 fighter ace - 5 kills vf-14
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air force general
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Night fighter ace, flew P-61's with the 418th NFS
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, Machine Gunner. Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941. POW for 4 years
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Charles Smith (4)Served in the 3rd Infantry Division during the war. Mr. Smith was one of the first American soldiers to cross the Rhine River and begin the march towards Berlin
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks. Korea: Battle of Osan, 24th Infantry Division, Distinguished Service Cross
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Charlie Smith (5) Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
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Daniel Smith (6)Living son of an American Slave
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Comedian and potential 2024 Libertarian presidential candidate
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David Smith (5) Veteran of Spanish Civil War, Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Born: 1913
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Retired General
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Born July 14, 1914) was the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa
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One of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918.Age 104 in 2015 and lived in the West Midlands of England
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army general
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President of Joseph Smith Senior and Lucy Mack Smith Foundation/ born 1907
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps. Later in the war he flew on P-40 Warhawks, B-17s and B-29s in the Pacific Theater
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WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
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US Marine Corps 4 Star General. Fought in the Gulf War, Iraq War, and War in Afghanistan. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Distinguished Service Cross, and Legion of Merit recipient
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Hump Pilot to China
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George Smith (3) USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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Born 1922 WW2 veteran and Navajo Code Talker
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Scientist - CHarge-Coupled Device (CCD) with Willard Boyle
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American chemist and Nobel laureate. He is the Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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nobel medicine laureate
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, glider pilot in Operation Varsity. 194th Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Machine Gunner. 291sth Infantry Regiment, 75th InfDiv (aka 'Bulgebusters')
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Jack Smith (4) Abc news correspondant- also at lz-xray in 1965 with 1/7 cav- he might have died?
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Jack Smith (6)Lawyer - Special Counsel
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US WWII Navy veteran (1924-2021). One of 7 last USS Indianapolis survivors at the time of his death
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US centenarian, born 1918. Survived the 1918 Flu as an infant, contracted from her mother who died of it when she was a few months old. At 102, one of the first to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in her Florida area
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Former CIA Agent, Married to Barbara Hearn
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Lz xray 1965
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Dallas policeman , standing at the corner of Elm and Houston , in front of the TSBD at the time of President Kennedy's assassination
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B-58 Hustler Pilot of the Supersonic bomber aircraft
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air force general
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JFK - Honor Guard 'Casket team', one of Kennedy's pallbearers (Navy)
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Convicted serial killer and rapist from Upstate New York who was the first convict ever to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 kills), 56th Fighter Group, 'Zemke's Wolfpack', flew the p-47
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judge
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. Recipient of a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, 8 Bronze Stars. and 4 Purple Hearts
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13th oldest Person in the World Born 1893.
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Witness to Rosa Parks' bus ride in 1955. Standing bus behind Parks, she eventually got off the bus with a group of people and walked home. She was an elevator operator where Parks worked as a seamstress
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Civil war general railroad tycoon 1st vp of b & o railroad
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Patricia Smith (3)Mother of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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Tuskegee Airman
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Vietnam: Fall of Saigon - US Marine Corps. Last Marine to stand duty at the US Embassy in Saigon and the Marine who took down the US flag during the evacuation of Saigon on April 29. 1975, for the very last time
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Retired USMC General
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Writer and Historian
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Former NASA test pilot
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Buffalo Soldier of WWII (1923-2021). Badly wounded in Italy alongside John Fox (one of the few Black MOH recipients of WWII), held POW by Germany. Teaching career, known as 'Doc Rock'
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Samantha Smith (2) Pacifist, wrote to Yuri Andropov
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NASA astronaut (retired). Four space shuttle flights
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Susan Smith (2)Convicted of killing her two sons in 1995
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Tracey Smith (2)Time Team
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Was one of the first Swing female drummers. Born: 11/28/1912 In 2016, she was reportedly still actively drumming at the age of 105 in a Costa Mesa band called Forever Young Band, as one of the oldest mainstream musicians still alive
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Walter Smith (3)Flight aviator
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oceanographer cartologist
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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William Smith (3) WWII: Battle of the Bulge. 75th Infantry Division
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William Smith (4)A News Photographer for the Dallas Times Herald , he was one of three photographers to take photos of three ' tramps 'as they were led away from a railroad car to be questioned on Nov. 22 , 1963
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navy admiral
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan
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newsmaker
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Retired from NASA after 34 years as an engineering technician
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Army general 'As Major in 1961 Airforce aide to the Military Representitive of the President'
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in San Antonio, TX
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At 19, she beat out Amelia Earhart to be named the best female pilot in the country. The 'intrepid birdwoman' was also featured on a Wheaties box.
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WWII - Navajo Code Talkerī
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Nobel medicine laureate 2007
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97 year old artist and Cabaret performer born in Poland
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(born July 8, 1916) is a former Republican South Carolina State Senator who also served as United States Chief of Protocol under President Richard M. Nixon from 1969-74 and was a member of the presidential campaign staff and Transition Team
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Air Force General
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WWII - D-Day, Utah Beach. 29th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division
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American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo
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Test pilot
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Author and First Amendment scholar and lawyer. Currently the dean of the Widener University Delaware Law School
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2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
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MIT alumnus who was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from 2003 to 2004
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(Born 1935) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 1 Silver Star and 7 Distinguished Flying Crosses
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Centenarian (1898-2004). One of the last living Australian WWI veterans
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Subject of the new WWII book 'Spearhead'
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NASA; Chief of the Crew Systems Division at NASA during the Apollo years. Ed Smylie is the man who concocted a plan using plastic bags, cardboard and duct tape to save Apollo 13's astronauts
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Test pilot
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WWII: ETO. RAF Battle of Britain pilot
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South African war hero, awarded Victoria Cross in June 1942
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One of the last known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. He is now 100 years old and lives at Island View Suites in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada. Also a survivor of the the Almonte Train Wreck of 1942
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WWII WASP Women Pilot
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African American WWI veteran of the 9th Calvary, born 1922. One of the last of the Buffalo Soldiers
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Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Senior CIA strategy analyst in Saigon and one of the last CIA men to be airlifted off the embassy roof amidst the chaos/Peabody-Award winning investigative journalist and broadcaster http://franksnepp.com/
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Retired rocket engineer, born 1937, hired to work with Von Braun's team in 1958. Worked on the recently launched Explorer I satellite project, and then a career at NASA, with contributions to the Apollo and Skylab missions
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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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. She lived in London at the time. She is now in her eighties and lives in London
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An American computer professional, former CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013
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WWII - LtGen Snowden (Fox Company, 2nd Bn, 23rd Marines, company commander) is the senior and highest-ranking surviving veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima (Purple Heart); also in the battles at Saipan and Tinian; WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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The last lighthouse keeper in the United States. also an author
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Rosie The Riveter --- WWII War Effort at Aerospace Plants
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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Pittsburgh Attorney
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Professor, Author/ 'On Tyranny'
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Astronaut from South Korea
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Yi So-Yeon (2)Astronaut
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach
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Co-Defendant charged with Treason/ Espianoge with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Born: 04/11/1917
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French serial killer, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s; probably in prison in Nepal or India
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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US Army Vietnam Veteran
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Along with his girlfriend Elizabeth Haysom, Jens Soering both killed Haysom's parents In March 1985, Haysom's parents Derek and Nancy were murdered and Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom were arrested in England the following year
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American lawyer, co-founder (with Laurie Racine and David Bollier) of Public Knowledge
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Woman who claims to be the nurse being kissed by the sailor in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous VJ Day 1945 photo on the cover of Life Magazine
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Former Soviet Military Marshal (Soviet Army) and the last surviving veteran from The Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 4th Marine Division
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Polish WWII Veteran
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Husband Robert was head advertising department at Dallas Times Herald in 1963. She vice president of Dallas chapter of League of Women Voters/Both attended Adlai Stevenson event on U.N. Day & at Trade Mart luncheon day of the assassination
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Member of the 'Clinton 12', where a dozen students became the first to integrate a school in the South in the fall of 1956
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WWII: PTO. 163rd Regiment, 41st Infantry Division. New Guinea campaign (Battle of Buna 1942/1943)
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#4 oldest person in the world lives in France. Born: Sept.7,1894
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Russian World War One Veteran
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U.S. Army veteran, who was captured by the Nazis in 1944, after bombing a Nazi bunker
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HRC leader; gay rights activist
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army general
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2022 Libertarian candidate for PA Governor
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Born 11 November 1946) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-15, spending a total of 361 days, 22 hours, 49 minutes in space
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Nobel economics laureate 1987
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Marine Corps (2nd Marine division) veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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German ww2 pilot
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Author of Journey to the Golden Door and a Holocaust survivor. Won 1981 National Teacher of the Year, an honor bestowed at the White House, after which he served on President Reagan?s National Commission on Excellence in Education
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(Born 1943) Former Sergeant Major of the US Marine Corps from 1987 to 1981
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Jewish survivor of the Nazis and a WWII veteran. Born in turbulent post-war Germany and witnessed the rise of National Socialism/Managed to escape in January 1939 and immigrated to America. He fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII
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American author and inventor most notable for being the U.S. prosecution team's chief interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials. Fought at Battle of the Bulge. Part of the RCA team that invented color tv. Worked for NASA on the moon landings
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Survivor of the crash and last living adult crewman of the Hindenburg. Died in 2005
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Member of the Norwegian Resistance during the German Occupation WWII. The most highly decorated person in Norway
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Aviation pioneer W/Fred Sigrist, others set up Sopwith Aviation Company which produced 18,000+ British WWI aircraft for allied forces, including 5747 of the famous Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter/awarded the CBE 1918
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Thai world champion boxer, IBF world Minimumweight champion, beat Manny Melchor for world title, lost to Ricardo Lopez, politician and political activist
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Survivor of the Holocaust (Auschwitz concentration camp). Also a lecturer and author
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Glenn Sorensen (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Army Air Corps
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Army General
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WWII - Employed at the Glenn L. Martin Company at Offutt Field (Fort Crook), she worked on the Enola Gay, did the cockpit wiring like the wiring for the special navigator table
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Danish WWII Veteran
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Congressional Medal of Honor, USMC, WWII
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army general
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Flight aviator American test pilot m2-f1, m2-f2
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Also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017
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Vermont State Attorney General (1997-present)
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JFK - SAIC of the Dallas Secret Service office, was in the lead car ahead of Kennedy when the president was shot on Nov. 22, 1963
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JFK - The "baby in the picture", as the press called her: On November 22, 1963, at Love Field, Dallas, the Kennedys shook hands with the crowd, and as it happened, Jackie touched baby Peggy - a moment was immortalized in photographs
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JFK: DPD officer after Oswald's shooting, at guard duty at Parkland Hospital while the autopsy on Oswald was performed
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Born: 12/20/1918
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Astrophysicist, co-wrote Carl Sagan's monumental 1980 astronomy documentary series Cosmos. Since then, he has also acted as advisor on a number of science documentaries, such as the IMAX films Blue Planet and Cosmic Voyage
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS New Orleans), later USMC Guadalcanal
