Native American Historian belongs to the Crow Tribe. Became the last Crow War Chief during WWII. Grandfather was a scout for George Custer. Appeared in Ken Burns' 'The War'
Studio supervisor at independent station KTVT-TV in '63, he operated the camera during the Fort Worth breakfast speech , at Parkland , and the funeral service for Officer Tippitt
(Born 1950) US Army Vietnam and Persian Gulf Veteran. POW in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973 when he was also discharged. Joined again in 1975 before retiring from the Army in 1991. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, 6 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
American journalist and essayist. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Received the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council as well as more honors
WWII: H Company, 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division. D-Day, joined the fight for Ste. Mere Eglise, fighting alongside paratroopers from Easy Company. Also Operation Market Garden and eventually seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge
Coordinator for Counterterrorism at Department of State with rank of Ambassador-at-Large on August 2, 2005. Ambassador Crumpton joined Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and served as an operations officer both at headquarters and abroad
Chef and former host of Calorie Commando and Weighing In on the Food Network. Lost 43 lbs on Discovery Health Body Challenge. Sentenced to prison for 9 years in California for soliciting homeless people to murder his wife, Jennifer Campbell
Cuban government official after Castro's revolution. Became a CIA asset. Was arrested for attempting to assasinate Fidel Castro. When released moved to Spain, where he became a doctor
Astronaut; the only American not on Earth during the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. He was on a 4 month long mission aboard STS-105 Discovery and took photos from space of the smoke that was seen in lower Manhattan where the Twin Towers had been hit
January 19, 1905 - August 16, 1995 was the first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairperson of the board of the Houston Post
WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (the famous K/3/5). Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa. 2 Purple Hearts, Silver Star. Gold Star
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS West Virginia. On a routine job of taking a small boat to the officers' club when the attack began, he tried evading Japanese bombs, strafings and torpedoes, and saving wounded sailors
WWII: Crew member of the 'Clay Pigeon', a C-47 that flew paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day and was shot down on Sept. 17, 1944, during Operation Market Garden. POW
Co-founder of Acorn Computers, a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were popular in the UK. Due to its innovative designs, Acorn is sometimes known as the 'British Apple'
Police officer was chief of Dallas Police Department from 1960-1966. Chief time of assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, & murder of his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, while in police custody 2 days later
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
Structural engineer, born 1937. One of the last living engineers of the Seattle Space Needle's design. Project lead for the foundation and the top house
Was born in 1941. He joined the United States Navy and eventually became a radiology technician at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963, his body was taken to Bethesda and Custer
Physicist, best known for the Cutkosky cutting rules in quantum field theory, which give a simple way to calculate the discontinuity of the scattering amplitude by Feynman diagrams
Actor: Hot Shots!, The Last Boy Scout, Kuffs, Sliver, In the Line of Fire, Wagons East, The Quest, The Glimmer Man, Psycho, The Practice, Gods and Generals, The West Wing, Mad Men, 24, The Collection, The Brink
WWII - Pacific, 106st Field Artillery Battalion, Batlle of Leyte: Was in the second wave that attacked the Japanese-held island of Leyte in the Philippines on Oct. 20, 1944, and met Douglas MacArthur that day
WWII: PTO. USS Vincennes (CA-44). Witness to the Doolittle Raid (April 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), Guadalcanal, survived the sinking of his ship in the Night Battle of Savo Island (August 9, 1942)