WWII: D-Day nurse (Special Advance Group 56). Arrived at the the Royal Victorian Hospital outside Southampton, mid-February 1944 and prepared for D-Day; treated the first D-Day casualty 4 days after June 6, 1944
WWII: Canadian / RAF Flying Ace, at least 19 victories, though assumed to have a much higher score, even by Nazi-German's war records. Highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign
6 years old, saw JFK arrive Carswell Air Base on 11/21/1963/Interview with him ran in Star-Telegram next day. Audio-visual manager at St. Paul Hospital Dallas, coordinated w/Oliver Stone for film of JFK/Went to same school as Oswald/Shook hands with LBJ
British physiologist and pioneer in Reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in particular - the first test-tube baby. 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 'for the development of in vitro fertilization'
Edwards watched the Kennedy motorcade on Nov.22 , '63 , from the southwest corner of Elm and Houston . His stated that he saw man leaning out of the TSBD transfixed on the triple underpass ten minutes before the shooting, born 2/4/43, Dallas
Was a spectator for President kennedy's motorcade in Dallas when he saw an individual up in the corner of the 6th floor of the TSBD crowded among boxes
WWII: ETO. 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. 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment. POW until the end of the war
Filmmaker, founder of a music label, motivational speaker, philanthropist and author. Ziman works as a writer, producer and director and is known internationally for her work on behalf of saving abandoned children
WWII: Red Army.Throughout the war, Efremova served as a nurse along the front lines in field hospitals. She is now 96 and lives with her daughter in Yakutsk, Russia
NYC Police Officer - The 'Popeye' Doyle character in The French Connection is very loosely based on his career. Actor - The French Connection, Prime Cut, Eischied, The New Mike Hammer, Police Story (6)
Centenarian, one of the last women alive to vote in the open election of 1920. Also saw the Wright Brothers in a flight demo on her honeymoon in 1915 at the San Francisco Pan Pacific Expo. (1896-2002)
Navy radioman on a Pacific landing craft during WWII. Took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. There at MacArthur's return, where he was entrusted to help bring 50 cases of whiskey to the officer's club
German rocket-propulsion engineer & advocate for space colonization/He worked at Peenemünde as a propulsion engineer from 1942-1945, then to USA with other German rocket scientists & technicians under 'Operation Papercli
Counsel & Assistant to President for Domestic Affairs under President Nixon. Key figure in events leading to Watergate 1st break-in & the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice & perjury
Retired Italian journalist whose question at a government press conference in the former East Germany is said to have precipitated the end of the Berlin Wall;
is living in Madrid/Spain
WWII - D-Day, Pointe-du-Hoc. 2nd Ranger Battalion. Scaled a 100-foot cliff while taking constant fire from German troops to take out six 155mm guns at Pointe-du-Hoc
Retired German Air Force General. He was Inspector of the Air Force, the senior Air Force appointment, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. German WWII Veteran
Was an anti-war & environmental activist who became influential in various New Age movements during the 1970s. He was convicted in 2002, after spending 17 years on the run, for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend and is serving a life sentence
Last witness to the Battle of Barrington. Born: 1928. The Battle of Barrington was a gunfight between federal agents and notorious gangster Baby Face Nelson, that took place on November 27, 1934. He was six years old at the time. Now 91
Author and holocaust survivor. Used the black-market skills he acquired in the Warsaw ghetto to make a fortune as a legitimate American importer-exporter and then used those millions to tell his story and support Holocaust-related education
Russian solid state physicist. Ekimov along with Moungi Bawendi and Louis E. Brus are the recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots'
69-year-old criminal lawyer Andrew Ekonomou, a man with a penchant for Medieval history has found himself at the center of President Donald Trump's legal team as it wrestles with the Mueller probe into collusion with Russia
Egyp/Amer scientist worked w/NASA in planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, & selection of Apollo landing sites & training of astronauts in lunar observations & photography. Shuttle pod named in Star Trek: The Next Generation 'Time Sq
Canadian commercial helicopter pilot. He is a 'pioneer in the development of high altitude winch rescue and mountain flying techniques'. He is Canada's first commercial helicopter pilot who was not previously a fixed-wing pilot
First cousin and childhood playmate of Anne Frank and president of the Anne Frank Fonds, a Basle-based charity that owns and administers the rights to her diary
Ex-Pentagon UFO Whistle-blower, UFO researcher - Known for leaking the famous 2004 'Tic Tac UFO' US Airforce Video which has since been confirmed authentic
JFK - Former LULAC leader who met JFK on Nov. 21, 1963, at a LULAC gala at the Grand Ballroom, Rice Hotel, in Houston; was photographed as he is about to shake JFK's hand that night
Widow of a World War I veteran, one of about 2,000 still alive. She was born in 1910 oldest person in Hillsborough County, and one of the oldest in the country, ever to receive VA benefits
JFK - DPD sergeant in command of the motorcycle escort for Kennedy on 22 November 1963; one of the motorcycle officers leading the motorcade, seen in several famous photographs
Resident at Parkland Hospital in Dallas when JFK was shot and brought in. After Kennedy's body was removed, he was one of 3 people known to have salvaged a rose from Jackie Kennedy's bouquet left behind, which he has preserved in plastic Lucite
US Lawyer, Politician, Founding Father (1745-1807). CT delegate to Continental Congress, helped write US Constitution. US Senator, close ally of Alexander Hamilton. Selected by G. Washington as the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Dallas police patrolman in 1963, Elwonger was assigned to the entrance to Dallas Love Field and remained at his post from before Air Force One's arrival until after its departure later that afternoon with the newly sworn-in president
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. US Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, taken from on board a B-17 which happened to be flying in on December 7, 1941
American journalist, author, and pundit on national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism. Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Served in the Admiral?s Band on the USS Pennsylvania. He was 'armed' with a French horn readying himself to play morning colors when the Japanese attacked
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Honolulu. Moved to Hawaii and devotes his time to identify sailors buried in unmarked graves; recognized by the National Park Service for his efforts
Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured Oneui on 7/26/1950, marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men/Recipient of the Purple Heart
US Navy WWII pilot, born 1921. Flew supplies and mail across the Pacific theater. Flew many Bataan Death March survivors home to Hawaii. Hit spots including Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa, Midway, Wake and the Aleutians. Flew C-47, C-54, PBY, SBD Dive
Scientist/Entomologist/Author - Known for his authority on the History and Geological placement of insects most notably the 'Honey Bee', writer or over 300 papers and the book 'Evolution of the Insects'
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
South African-born British cardiac surgeon (Born: 1932) He performed Britain's first successful heart transplant in January 1979. He was knighted in 1991. He is now retired and lives in the UK. Sir Terence English
Woman who was half of the blanketed couple who appeared on the iconic 1970 'Woodstock' album cover and on posters for the documentary film about the festival
Man who was half of the blanketed couple who appeared on the iconic 1970 'Woodstock' album cover and on posters for the documentary film about the festival
WW2 WASP appointed Squadron Commander for the 6th Ferry Command/only woman during war to be awarded the Air Medal for her service/Flew medium-size bombers A-20, A-26 and B-25, the cargo craft DC-3, C-54 & mighty B-17 Flying Fortress bomber
Actor: House, Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, Toy Soldiers, Body Snatchers, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Seven, Murder in the First, Toy Story, Dead Man Walking, Saving Silverman, The Frighteners, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Husband of Susan Ershler, a professional public speaker. Co-author (with Susan Ershler) of Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits. IMG Partner AMGA Certified Alpine Guide
Author; Walled-In/ an eyewitness to President Kennedy?s historic speech in West Berlin on June 26, 1963?/Lives with husband Burch in San Diego California
American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974/His investigation in 1972 and 1973 of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation in 1974 of President Richard Nixon
Navajo Bougainville Code Talker/2nd All-Navajo Platoon 297/Stationed in Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima and other Pacific locations for just over two years
(12/4/1918?7/23/2011 Academic/"Father of cryonics" from impact of his book The Prospect of Immortality/Considered pioneer transhumanist from his book Man into Superman. Founded Cryonics Institute & Immortalist Society/His body Cryopreserved
Australian Coast Watcher in Pacific theatre in WW II/Chiefly remembered for playing significant part in rescue of future President John F. Kennedy and his surviving crew after Torpedo Boat, PT-109, was sunk by enemy action in August 1943
WW2 2nd Armor Light Recon Tank Gunner/WIA POW/Advised to movie 'Fury',
was in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany/Lives in Upper Providence, PA./Age 97
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tennessee (BB-43). Winner of the Jitterbug contest at Bloch Arena on Dec. 6, 1941, during the semi-finals of the Battle Of The Bands 1941
WWII: British Atlantic convoy veteran (USA to UK), Arctic veteran (aboard the HMS Wanderer, in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy) and D-Day veteran (escort convoys to the landings)
Vincent 'Little Vinny' Artuso - capo of a crew in Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach County, Boca Raton and Palm Beach Island. Artuso lives in South Palm Beach, Florida. On January 22, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Artuso was charged with racketeering
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
WW2 Air Gunner manning a ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress/French President Francois Hollande had installed him as a chevalier, chevalier you know is a knight in that country's Legion of Honor
90-year-old Holocaust survivor, commemorates anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz with dance performance about her years in the concentration camp. Fahidi performed the dance, 'Sea Lavender or The Elation of Being,'. May live in Berlin
Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor and now 97 years old
WWII: D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; 82nd Airborne Division (All-Americans), 505th paratrooper infantry (PIR), Company D; landed in the cemetery of St. Mere Eglise in France on D-Day
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program
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U.S. Navy sailor serving as a radioman in the Coast Guard Flotilla 4/10, LCI-492 (landing craft infantry), that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944
WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
American politician, business executive, & dignitary who served as head of the Democratic National Committee & as Postmaster General. Farley known as political 'kingmaker', & was responsible for FDR's rise to presidency
In 1963 Test Pilot on the RAE Aerodynamics Research Flight at Bedford. During this tour he flew all the UK research aircraft then flying. Flown over 80 different aircraft types, both fixed and rotary wing. 19 years of Harrier programme test flying.
Former employee of ESL Incorporated, he stalked co-worker Laura Black. On February 16, 1988, he shot and killed seven people at ESL. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder. Portrayed by Richard Thomas in the movie I Can Make you Love Me
US Navy vet, born 1926. Naval reserves at the end of WWII, and the end of the Korean War. 'Atomic veteran' witness to the Operation Crossroads first peacetime tests of atomic bombs at the Bikini Atoll in 1946
WWII USMC - Battle of Corregidor (1942), awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Spent over 3 years as a POW and was awarded a 2nd Purple Heart. Also, served in the Korean War
WII: B-17 tail-gunner in the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 21 missions beginning in February 1945, incl. Berlin, Schweinfurt, the Ruhr Valley
JFK - Dallas police officer. Was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the motorcade arrived, and he saw President Kennedy?s body. On Saturday, he guarded the Homicide and Robbery Bureau doorway at Dallas police headquarters. Acquaintance of Jack Ruby
Legendary Marine; WWII (Guadalcanal, Guam, Bougainville, Iwo Jima), Korea (Pusan Perimeter, Inchon Landing, Seoul Recapture, 'Frozen Chosin' Reservoir). Knew Mike Mervosh, Chesty Puller, John Wayne
US WWII vet, born 1914. Son of Italian immigrants, he worked in a clerical office in Italy in WWII, where he found his family's dialect left him unexpectedly not understanding the language there
Governor Arkansas 55-67. 1957 stand against desegregation of Little Rock School District during Little Rock Crisis/Ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School
American immunologist who has made substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/Saved millions of lifes
Civil rights leader Walter E. Fauntroy, who served 20 years in Congress as Washington, D.C.â-?s non-voting delegate and chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, after helping Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plan the March on Washington
signer of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, was an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1958
WWII: US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain (driver) on D-Day. His LCVP picked up 35 men of the 1st Infantry Division from the USS Henrico and brought them into the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach. It was the 5th boat in the 1st wave at Omaha on 6:30 AM
Captured by Red Chinese during CIA - sponsored C-47 flight over mainland China during Korean War. POW nearly 2 decade battle of wills between the U.S. & China/He was released in December 1971. CIA awarded him the Distinguished Intelligence Cross
NASA test pilot - Gulfstream III, the DC-8 airborne science laboratory, C-17 and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), T-34 mission support aircraft and the remotely piloted X-56 multi-utility technology testbed
WWII - Fighter Ace, Pacific. 9 victories, 4 probable's, 9 more aircraft damaged. He flew with VF-5 (USS Yorktown) during the Battle of Midway; took part in many of the key battles in the Pacific, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima
Was the second head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He played College football for Stanford at the Offensive Guard position. He was elected to the Stanford Athletics Hall o Fame He is also a World War 2 veteran, served in the US Marines
A former National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower who revealed the existence of the NSA and its worldwide covert surveillance network in an interview
WWII: USS Navy. Crossed Atlantic from Boot Camp on The RMS Queen Mary; served on the HMS Ceres during D - Day, directing ships in and out at Omaha Beach
Was the head of the Communications section at NASA starting with Apollo 9. Fendell would use a camera mounted on the Lunar Rover to perfectly capture the lunar liftoff of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger
Staff Assistant to President John F Kennedy: Dan H. Fenn Jr. Gave a 'Ted talk' in January 2018 on differences between JFK's White House and the one of today
(7 February 1926 - 21 November 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The Feoktistov crater on the Far Side of the Moon is named in his honor
Col. Vietnam War/US Air Force, pilot/Pow six years/John McCain's cellmate two years/ His Air Force career flying the B-47 Stratojet, RB-66 and EB-66 Destroyer, T-38 Talon, and F-111 Aardvark aircraft
American Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; gained brief media notoriety in August 2012, when he wore an unusual mohawk hairstyle during the Curiosity landing on Mars
Last surviving prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945-46, at the Palace of Justice
A synthetic organic chemist. He received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'
Spy/also known as Anya Fermanov, is a Latvian-American television personality and alleged smuggler. While living in Texas, Fermanova allegedly smuggled night-vision equipment to her husband in Russia
Radioman/Gunner on TBF Avenger, Torpedo Squadron 8, (VT-8). Battle of Midway, WWII, 4 June 1942. Of the six Avengers, Ferrier's was the only one to return. Ferrier was wounded along with his pilot, the top gunner was killed. He was awarded DFC & PH
Author and founder and President of the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation. The foundation's goal is totell the story of the greatest generation of National Baseball Hall of Fame players that served in WWII led by Bob Feller, etc
JFK/Cold War: Member of Light Photographic Squadron 62 (VFP-62) that took the low-level pictures of the Russian missiles in Cuba during the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' in October 1962. Aviation electrician responsible
Jason Fettig is a United States Marine Corps colonel who is the music adviser to the President of the United States and the 28th director of the United States Marine Band 'The President's Own'
Founding member of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Company and witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952. She was 21 at the time and is now 85
Civilian imprisoned for more than three years by the Japanese during WW2 as a child/Was living on the island of Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies during World War II when the Japanese invaded in 1942
Civil rights activist (b. 1930), one of the last living organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Named recording secretary of the boycott's MIA group, to Martin Luther King's presidency of the group. Pastor of one of the churches bombed during the boycot
Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent (Born: 1928) He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. After leaving the space programme in 1982 he became the Deputy Director of the OKB in Kharkiv
Wrote a diary during the siege of Sarajevo- Often Called 'The Anne Frank Of Sarajevo'(Author Zlata's Diary)- well known peace and human rights activist
US WWII army vet (ETO, 287th Combat Engineers) and NASA engineer, born 1924. Project chief scientist and manager for Pioneer planetary missions 6-13. Pioneer 10 and 11 the first spacecrafts to Jupiter and Saturn, and the first to leave the solar system
NASA/Apollo 11: Engineer who invented the 'barbecue roll' for rotating the flight capsule that balanced temperature while in flight, a maneuver that later saved Apollo 13
Oldest Living Medal of Honor (Navy WW 2) Born: 07/23/1909.Lieutenant John William Finn (born July 23, 1909) is a retired officer of the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor in recognition of heroism and distinguished service during the Japan
Is a centenarian, a British statistician, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society
Former Bonnano 'acting capo' of Gerard Chilli's South Florida crew. He is based in Palm Beach County, city of Boynton Beach. On October 14, 2009 his crew in South Florida was charged under the RICO law.
Now 90 years old (2021) grew up in northern New Mexico during the Manhattan Project. Her ancestors were Hispano homesteaders who built the Romero Cabin, an important pre-Manhattan Project structure at Los Alamos
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 4 WW1