JFK - Head of the Blue Key Society of Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette (now ULL) who met and got photographed with future President Kennedy at the Crowley Rice Festival in 1959
In 1954 Ed Andrews was the New York Yankees' first Negro League pitcher. Unfortunately Andrews never panned out as expected or he and not Elston Howard would have been the first black player in team history.
Born 1916.Last living female 'Monuments Men' of the 2nd wave of Monuments Men which began their work after the war had ended. She is related to writer Virginia Woolf
American Voice and TV Actor born 1930.Boss Hogg on 'The Dukes of Hazzard'(1983-85),'All in the Family','Whats Up Doc?','Joy House','Black Like Me','Devil Times Five','Tiny Toons','Smurfs','Soap','Brenda Starr','Naked City','Barnaby'
Actor Director Writer active from the 50's into the 70's. Directed several religous themed films in the 50's. Appeared in small tv roles. Was the son of censor Joseph Breen
American Former Male Comedian & Actor - TV Series - 'The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show' (1950-1958). Movie - 'Six of a Kind' (1934), 'Oh God!' 1977), ' The Sunshine Boys' (1975), '18 Again!' (1988), 'A Damsel In Distress' (1937) Plus Many More Roles
German ww2 ME262 pilot born 1924. Was never in the Wehrmacht; author - The last of the few: An Me.262 Pilot remembers, flew the buckner 181, 131, fw 44, ar 66, f-13, w33, w34, ju86, ju88, ju52, me110, me210, me40, me262, klemm 35, sg38, kranich
American Female American Football Player - Defence Back/Fullback. Lingerie/Legends Football League (LFL) 'Baltimore Charm' (2010-2013 ) 'Las Vegas Sin' (2014-2015)
American Former Female Author - Novel - 'The Cat Who Went to Heaven' (1930), 'Away Goes Sally' (1934), 'Five Bushel Farm' (1939), 'Sword Of The Wilderness' (1936), 'Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography' (1976), 'The Fair American' (1940)
WWII - Mine Platoon of the Anti-Tank Company, 69th Infantry Division, 271st Regiment. First combat at the 'Siegfried Line' in February 1945; crossed the Rhine on March 27, 1945; arrived at the KZ Buchenwald one day after its liberation
Actor: The Twilight Zone, Thunderbirds, Johnny Guitar, Hell's Outpost, The Raiders, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Red Tomahawk, Support Your Local Gunfighter, Kung Fu, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Fall Guy, 1st & Ten - The Championship, Dallas
Director/actor/writer 'Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story' 'Random Passage'/4 years Naval officer in WW2. Landing craft officer-Boat Group Commander for my ship-landing assault troops on the beaches of six Japanese island strongholds
U.S. Air Force brigadier general (Ret.)& author 'Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride As Air Force One Pilot', White House Aide, & Personal Confidant/Military aide & chief Air Force One pilot under President Lyndon B. Johnson
Author;'Just A Kid, A Guard at the Nuremberg Trials' 18 years old when drafted in 1944, into infantry. Found himself standing guard over Nazi war criminals, & watched as atrocities were described in detail throughout the Nuremberg Trails
WWII veteran, born in 1913, believed to be the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor. He served on the USS W> Virginia during the attack, and later served in the Korean War
Former blackjack player with MIT Blackjack Team/Played with Strategic Investments & one of founding members & team leaders on Amphibian Investments exploits chronicled in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas & referred to in Bringing Down the House
U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail during the Kennedy years, Duncan served as the advance agent for Fort Worth during the Texas visit in November 1963
Administrator of NASA/National Aeronautics and Space Administration who gained the approval of the Nixon Administration on January 5, 1972, to develop the Space Shuttle as the follow-on human space flight effort of the agency
Author - Marathon Man, The Princess Bride, Magic. Screenwriter - Butch Cassidy..., All The President's Men (Academy Awards for both), The Princess Bride, Magic (the latter two adapted from his novels), Harper (Edgar Award), The Stepford Wives, Misery, Cha
Actress: Wasteland, A Dangerous Woman, Patron Saints of Liars, Homegrown, The Photographer, Cecil B. Demented, Stranger Than Fiction, World Trade Center, Happy Endings, Secretary, 40 Days & 40 Nights, Mona Lisa Smiles, Adaptation, The Dark Knight
former Reds, Braves, Cubs, Mets & Royals outfielder; holds minor league record for stolen bases in one season (155); currently plays in White Sox minor leagues
Actress - The Slime People, Pajama Party, Ride The Wild Surf, City Under The Sea, Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine, The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini (title role). Wife of A.I.P. president James H. Nicholson from 1964 until his death in 1972
Civil Rights Movement/Political and civic leader and the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
WW2 vet, born 1921, and the last surviving member of Richard Byrd'sThird Antarctic Expedition in 1939. Also returned with Byrd on his 1946 and 1947 expeditions
U.S. Congressman (4th CD) from Massachusetts. Son of Joseph P. Kennedy II, grandson of Ethel Kennedy and the late Robert F. Kennedy. Elected to Congress in 2012
Swiss - born American diplomat, author and politician. Served as the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985-1991. Served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996-1999. Sister of the late Edgar May, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
American physician-scientist best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors, for which, with Brian Kobilka, he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
(born March 23, 1946) is an American attorney, former politician, interim U.S. Attorney for south Florida and a law professor. He is the husband of U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Member of the Florida House of Representatives
Last surviving witness to 'The Sutton Hoo excavation' in 1939, considered to be one of the most important excavation's made in British archaeological history. She lives in Chester, UK and is now 84 years old
Australian WWII veteran and a member of Semut 1, a group of undercover allied operatives lead by the eccentric English Major Tom Harrisson in Borneo in 1945. Now lives in Bayswater, West Australia with his wife Margery
Donald Francis Mason was a U.S. Navy pilot with Patrol Squadron Eight-Two (VP-82), stationed at Argentia, Newfoundland.Responsible for the saying 'Sighted Sub, Sank Same.
Actor - The Manchurian Candidate, Midnight Cowboy, Breakfast At Tiffanys, The Gazebo, Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation, Take Her Shes Mine, The Front Page '70, Mame, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Jimmy Stewart Show, many TV guest-starring roles (1955-1975)
US Marine Sgt./Vietnam/Last out before the fall of Saigon/sent to attache office to guard millions of dollars before cash was burned & compound blown up by the Americans to keep the enemy from raiding it and obtaining classified documents
Lieutenant Governor of New York (2006-2008); Governor of New York (2008-2011); first African-American Governor of New York and the first legally blind governor in the US
American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics (1978) who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 19th round of the 1990 MLB June Amateur Draft and the Seattle Mariners in the 19th round of the 1991 MLB June Amateur Draft, Also played for Team USA Baseball team in 1991
Host of WNYW - TV's 'Good Day New York', former CBS - TV weatherman, current NBC-4 NY Meteorologist, frequent fill - in for Al Rocker on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
Voice Actress - the voices of Betty Boop, Olive Oyl, Little Lulu, Little Audrey, Winky Dink. Singer - On The Good Ship Lollipop (sold 2 million copies). Actress - Funny Girl, Christmas Vacation, Zelig, New York Stories
Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate born 29 July 1898. Worked on the 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity). Nobel laureate 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
Bodybuilder, born 1944, Munich, Germany,
Mr. Germany 1965 , Mr. Europe 1970 (Tall Division), Mr. Europe 1972 (Tall Division), famous physic model in the 1960s
This is the Venezuelan-born left-handed pitcher who was born April 7, 1993. He was traded by the Orioles to the Red Sox in the Andrew Miller deal, and, as of spring, 2018, is a starting pitcher for Boston
American economist. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design'
Secretary of Commerce 1969-1972. Maurice Stans was entangled in the Watergate scandal while serving as Finance Chairman for President Nixon's re-election campaign
Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Drove bus through Saigon & pick up eligible to leave. Saw anger growing among those on the streets as people realized the end was near & U.S. was pulling out. A rocket hit near the bus & was shaken by shrapnel
Born January 8, 1912, American lawyer and former judge and Deputy Attorney General who was appointed Independent Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan Administration
Reporter/cameraman WBAP-TV/Covered attempted shooting Gen. Edwin Walker. November 22, at Love Field, Trade Mart & Parkland, captured only sound recording of announcement of President Kennedy's death. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial
Stuntman: Rio Bravo, The Alamo, The Misfits, Daniel Boone, Point Blank, Planet of the Apes, Rollerball, King Kong, Bronco Billy, The Fall Guy, Escape from New York, Road House // Actor: Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter, Starman, Silverado, The Hidden
Texas Ranger, drove Mayor's car in JFK's Dallas motorcade. Helped remove the President's body from the limo on arrival at Parkland Hospital. Later served 16 years as a county sheriff