WWII - 101st Airborne, 506th PIR, F Company. Paratrooper that landed in Normandy together with Easy Company. Fought at Carentan, Bastogne, Battle Of The Bulge. Completed his duty in Austria. Wounded twice. Pictured in a famous D-Day photo
Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy (birth name Dominic Noonan, born 1964) is an English gangster. With his brother Desmond 'Dessie' Noonan, he headed a criminal organisation or 'crime firm' in Manchester, England during the 1980s and 1990s
American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is, together with Paul Romer, one of the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
WWII veteran of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. Later served as a Presidential Honor Guard in the last days of FDR. FDR cancelled a dinner with the Guard members days before his death in Georgia
WWII: PTO. B-17 pilot. He was the last of MacArthur's personal pilots; among other flights, he flew Gen. MacArthur to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
American general officer U.S. Army &Air Force/assistant chief of staff for operations (A-3) of the Twelfth Air Force, going to England with it the following month in support of Operation Husky, and to Algiers, North Africa in October 1942
WWII: Hobo in the 1930s, then 2 years at the CCC. In 1940, he was at the USS Oahu, a Yangtze River Patrol boat stationed at Shanghai, China. Departed for Corregidor end of 1941, was sunk by enemy gunfire 5 May 1942. POW, Hell Ship survivor
10/4/1981 Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin removed from grave & Dr. Linda Norton, headed team who examined remains at Baylor University Medical Center determined body's identity mainly by comparing its teeth with Oswald's Marine dental records
One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana), the deadliest tornado in American history, which occurred on March 18, 1925
Is an American historian, best known for writing That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life
Fighter ace ww2 born 2/22/1920. 317th FS, 325th FG. He is credited with 8 confirmed victories. Awards include Distinguished Flying Cross and 15 Air Medals
WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8); Doolittle Raid witness (Apr. 1942); Battle of Midway (June 1942); Battle of Santa Cruz (Oct. 1942) when the Hornet was sunk (part of the salvage team who were the last men to leave the ship)
(Born June 21, 1921) is an American former field hockey player and a pilot in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Flew Stearman and AT-6 Planes
Former Trump Aid subpoenaed from Mueller seeking Nunberg's appearance before a grand jury and records of years of correspondence with people associated with Trump
Spanish veteran (Born 1904) and the last surviving veteran of The Rif War of the 1920's, and one of the last of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. As of August 2017, he became the world's oldest living man, and the 21st longest living man in documented h
JFK - Retired Judge O'Brien met Kennedy first during his campaign in 1960, and repeatedly therafter, and later was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa by JFK. Flew 30 mission over Europe (WWII, lead bombardier) and earned the DFC
WWII: USMC. Crew chief at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. He took care of the famous Vought F4U Corsair 'Number 13' that was flown by aces KennetH Walsh and Pappy Boyington. He knew both men very well. Later served on Guam and Iwo Jima
Retired Brigadier General. Canadian Member of Parliament for Carleton-Mississippi Hills. Minister of Defence 2006-2007, Minister of National Revenue 2007-2008
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. UH-1 Huey pilot with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Hearts
A H.S. student in '63 , he was with friends at Dallas Love Field, Stemmons Freeway and Parkland . He was present in nurse's classroom for official announcement of Pres. Kennedy's death
2/2/1911-2/16/1994 US Navy submarine commander WW2, Medal of Honor for service on Tang. Served Wahoo, as executive & approach officer. Participated more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other sub officer during war
(Born 1961) US Army Special Forces Veteran and Author. Participated in many operations during his career. He was in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Grenada. Bronze Star Recipient. Has written many books about the Revolutionary War
Witnessed the surrendering of Hitler's Atlantic fleet of U-boat's on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry at the end of WW2. (Born:1932) He is now 84 and lives in Derry, Northern Island. Also known as Father Arthur O'Reilly
JFK: 22-year career as a Secret Service agent working for JFK and LBJ in the White House and on special assignment to Ford, Nixon, Carter and Bush pere. He was in the detail that awaited JFK at Fort Worth the night of November 21, 1963
Frederick attended Beauregard Junior High in New Orleans at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald . He recruited Oswald into the Civil Air Patrol in 1955 when assassination suspect David Ferrie was the squadron commander
WWII: Last surviving Akwesasne Mohawk Code Talker during WWII. Fought in the South Pacific, New Guinea and Philippines theatres as one of 33 Mohawk code talkers
WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) on a ration boat filled with tins of pineapple, boxes and cigarettes
On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district, defeating the incumbent, DCC Chair Joseph Crowley, in what has been described as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election season
Kamikaze pilot WW2/Book, 'Memoirs of a Kamikaze', born on 11 December, 1926 in village Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi's graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan's occupation of China
Journalist, author, and media consultant. Media columnist for Business of Fashion, and reg contributor to The Cut, Refinery29, Vulture, and other publications. Former editor of Cosmopolitan.com. Named 1 of Forbes ?30 Under 30' in 2015
American activist, born Nathanial Burns in 1944. Joined Malcolm X's OAAU in 1965, then the Black Panthers, and later the Black Liberation Army. One of the 'Panther 21' accused by the feds of various violent acts. Caught in 1981, imprisoned until 2014
B.1937 Odio provided testimony to Warren Commission investigating assassination of JFK that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of 3 men who visited her Dallas, Texas apartment in September 1963 to solicit money for the anti-Castro cause
US Centenarian, WWII and Civilian Conservation Corps vet, born 1917. CCC New Deal Program 1934-36 in Massachusetts, then an Army officer in the South Pacific during WWII
WWII - Fighter Ace (6 aerial victories, 17 ground victories, 155 missions) of the 2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group; received a citation for his escort action during Operation Tidal Wave (aka 'Ploesti Raid) in 1943
Japanese and American vet, born 1926 in the US. Raised in Japan, fought for Japan in the last days of WWII. Taken POW by Russia,18 months in a Siberian gulag. Released, later returned to the US, Served in the US Army during the Korean War
(Born 1926) WW2 and Korean War USAAF Veteran. Was in a B-24 Liberator and a tail gunner on a B-29. Witnessed the mushroom cloud from Nagasaki off in the distance in 1945. POW during the Korean War for 2 years
Friend of Jack Ruby, a singer at Ruby's Carousel Club and the adjacent Colony Club, and co-author of Nightmare in Dallas/accompanied Jack Ruby to New Orleans where she met Mafia bosses Johnny Roselli and Carlos Marcello/The Babushka Lady
One of the last British lighthouse keepers before automation took over. Former lighthouse keeper at Kinnaird Head lighthouse, Fraserburgh, Scotland, UK
Born 1920 is the oldest licensed lobsterwoman in the state of Maine in US, and local historians describe her as perhaps the oldest active one in the world
Cold War: RB-47 reconnaissance pilot flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
Swedish criminal who was involved in the bank robbery that coined the 'Stockholm Syndrome', is probably living in Belgium and now uses the name Daniel Demuynck
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona. survivor of USS Lexington as it was sinking during the Battle of the Coral Sea; took part in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests after the war
Part of the first generation of female military pilots, eventually accumulating nearly 4,000 hours of flying time/Iraq/Running for Congress in 2020/aviation leader, commander
Dr. Omalu was the first to identify, describe and name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] as a disease entity in football players and wrestlers. He is currently the Chief Medical Examiner of San Joaquin County, California, and is the President and Med
Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
A six-year-old in Dallas in 1963, Onassis was with her mother on Stemmons Freeway when they were passed by the presidential limousine on its way to Parkland Memorial Hospital
Japanese soldier from WW2 who hid in the jungle for 30 years refusing to surrender to the Allies; is now living in Brazil; author of 'No Surrender: My Thirty Year War'
US-based software developer along with two others managed to crack Z340, a 340-character cipher that's one of four such codes attributed to the Zodiac Serial Killer. unknown for 51 years
U.S, Congressman (R) /Former Navy Seal from 1988 to 2014, small time actor/Drunk who gained coverage for verbally accosting & screaming profanities at several Senate Pages in the United States Capitol
Author 'VIETNAM Marine Infantry - One Year in Vietnam'/Trained as a corpsman he was attached to a Marine unit and saw duty on the front lines of the war
FBI agent, responded to the assassination attempt on George Wallace and interviewed Wallace during his recovery. One of the figures who helped head the investigation into possible group effort
Orr stood on the north side of Elm St. between the TSBD and the steps to the pergola and was one of the closest eyewitnesses to the president at the time of the assassination
WWII - His B-24 was shot down on a bombing mission to Ploesti in July 1944 (not the famous Ploesti Raid). For five weeks, with the help of locals and Serbian Chetniks, he escaped Nazis soldiers and was saved during 'Operation Halyard'
Former Colonel of the United States Marine Corps who served from 1975 to 2005. He did 3 tours as a commanding officer and 1 tour in Iraq in 2004. He graduated college in 1996 with 5 degrees (3 master and 2 undergraduate)
(Born 1945) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Company D, 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1966 and then released in 1968. Recipient of a Purple Heart
American (1915-2008), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade. Had joined the Communist party in the 1930s, later hassled by the FBI and HUAC. Left the party when he saw Stalin's actions. Worked also in the civil rights movement
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
American writer of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo, Newton, Bohr, and stories about physicist Richard Feynman
Aerospace engineer; Project Engineer (Flight Operations) for the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle and for the X?15 Rocket Aircraft served as the flight test Propulsion Engineer. Founder of ALETRO in 2008
Holocaust Survivor/Born in Salonika, Greece/April 1943, With her family & most of Jews of Salonika, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At Birkenau, Bella & sister Sylvia remained together while the rest of their family was sent to gas chamber
Aleksey Nikolayevich Ovchinin born 28 September 1971 in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian SFSR is a Russian Air Force Major and cosmonaut, who was selected in 2006
Was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D.
One of the last of three known survivors of The Halifax Explosion that devastated the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1917. He is now 95 and lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
(1905-1990) folklorist, author, & professor/Author; 'This Stubborn Soil' 'A Season of Weathering' 'Walking on Borrowed Land'/In 1942 joined the United States Army as a buck private & was assigned to the intelligence branch
JFK: A Deputy in the Dallas Co. Sheriff's Dept . in '63 , he and several other deputies carried out a search of the Paine home at which time the ' infamous blanket ' was found in the garage. He also was close by the TSBD and heard the shots fired
Psychiatrist (Born: 1914) who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
Deputy General Director of Russian state-owned power company, Zarubezhneft and one of the survivors of The Chernobyl disaster, that occurred on 26 April 1986 in Ukraine, Russia.He worked as a supervisor at the reactor at the time of the disaster
Author, speaker, associate professor of medicine at NYU?s School of Medicine. He was an advisor to President Ford?s White House physician and assisted First Lady Nancy Reagan with the Chemical People Project
WW2 Polish POW/Cut the hair of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, one of the most cold-blooded and sadistic mass murders in Adolf Hitler's regime/Lives in Krakow Poland
Michael Ralph Paine b.6/25/1928 retired engineer who worked for Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas in 1963. Became notable after assassination of JFK because of his and his wife's acquaintance with purported assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
Friend of Marina Oswald, who was living with her at the time of JFK assassination. According to 4 government investigations, Oswald stored the 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle he used to assassinate John F. Kennedy in Paine's garage.
Real life Rosie the Riveter; worked B-29 line in Wichita, KS. Volunteer on Doc restoration. Most of her original rivets from when she installed them at 18 years old were still sound
WWII: Served on the destroyer USS Dale (DD-353) from 1942-45. Battle of Komandorski Islands (Aleutians Campaign, March 1943), Central Pacific 1943/44 (Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok), 1944/45 Saipan, Guam, Battle of the Philippine Sea
WWII:_ PTO. Served on the submarine USS Finack. While on its 10th war patrol, the Finback -- with Andrew at the helm and the first man on deck -- rescued Lt. J.G. George Herbert Walker Bush
Palermo was part of the 2nd wave at Omaha Beach. He piled out of a Higgins boat, into a storm of bullets and bombs. This was followed by an hour dug into the bloody sand, while 2,500 men died around him
WWII Nazi War Criminal; was a guard at Trawniki labor camp; his US citizenship has been revoked but he originally couldn'tt be deported because no country would take him; has since been deported to Germany
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
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
(born 1935) Indian anthropologist and author. He was the first outsider to make peace with the North Sentinel Island natives. He started in 1967 by giving gifts and offerings to the people and finally made contact in 1991
(born 30 January 1918) is a Croatian historian, archivist and orientalist from Herzegovina. He entered the Franciscan Order in 1935 and was ordained for a priest in 1941
JFK - Secret Service agent for 4 presidents; guarded President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis and in Berlin; responsible to guard JFK's car after the assassination
Foreign policy adviser served President Trump's 2016 president campaign. 10/05/17, Pled guilty making false statements to FBI agents about contacts with Russia in 2016 relating to U.S.-Russia relations & emails stolen from Clinton campaign
Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
WWII US Army D-Day veteran, born 1924. Led wire-cutting group in the first wave on Omaha Beach. Claims to be the first man to reach the beach the morning of the attack
Calvin Parker claims he and co-worker Charles Hickson were abducted by aliens while fishing near Pascagoula, Mississippi. The story made national headlines in 1973. His story is told in his book: PASCAGOULA-THE CLOSEST ENCOUNTER: MY STORY
American solar astrophysicist, born 1927. Developed theory of solar wind in the 1950s. First living person to have NASA name a spacecraft after them, the Parker Solar Probe to the sun, launched in 2018
Social historian and witness to 'the Great Smog of 1952' a severe air-pollution event that affected London during December 1952 that led to the deaths of 12,000 people. He now lives in Bristol, UK
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
WWII Rosie the Riveter, photographed working with her sister Naomi Parker Fraley in WWII. Revealed in 2015 that her sister's photo was the inspiration for the iconic We Can Do It WWII Rosie poster
American virologist, born 1932. Co-discovered the first widely applicable test for rubella antibodies and the vaccine for rubella. Isolated the vaccine in 1962, reported successful trials in 1966. Joined MMR in 70s
Engineer with Bechtel Corp. blows the whistle on the cleanup of a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island, the worst nuclear power plant accident in American history
WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Battle of Cape Gloucester. Korean War. Commended for his cour-age and coolness under fire by both his command-ing officers and the men that served with him, who dubbed him 'The Real John Wayne'. Silver Star
One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana), the deadliest tornado in American history that occurred on March 18, 1925
WWII: 327th Glider Regiment, 101st Airborne Div. Due to a shortage of gliders, he arrived in France only on D-Day+1, landed with his glider in Holland in Sept. 1945 (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne
Filipino WWII Veteran, U.S. Army. In July 1942, his Filipino squad ambushed a train carrying Japanese troops, cutting off the officers' heads to present to their commanding officer; the Japanese captain on the train had brutalized Filipinos.
On Nov. 22 1963, Patsy Paschall filmed from the third floor tower of the courthouse on Houston Street. Her film depicts the JFK motorcade going by underneath, as well as other views after the assassination
WWII: Served as a medic in Europe, beginning with the Battle of Normandy, landing at Utah Beach a couple days after D-Day and spent his last days in Germany tending to the Jewish Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald
WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
Emergency room technician, HS English and drama teacher, health care administrator, marketing executive, former Air Force member, professional actor, comic, and musician, author and professional speaker
Won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch and could pave the way for new pain-killers
Former radio newsman, known for his coverage of the Kennedy assassination & forever known as reported, 'Something has happened in the Motorcade'. His career in radio news he reported for KBOX, KLIF, and later became news director at KVIL
Italian WWII Navy Veteran from Sicily (1923-2022). Served in Italy and Africa before the Allies took over. Got his high school diploma at 31, then added college degrees between the ages of 96 and 98
WWII - 486th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 'Bluenosed Bastards of Bodney'. P-51 pilot with 5 air to ground victories (a 'strafing Ace'). Also Flew PT-17, BT-13, AT-6, P-40 and P-47. He flew with his twin brother, Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattill
Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattillo was a P-51 pilot in WWII. Flew with his twin brother, Lt. Gen. Charles 'Buck' Pattillo. Bill shot down a ME-262 German Jet. 6 days later, Bill was shot down himself, and became a POW to the Germans
Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
Author, filmmaker and founder and executive director of the Patton Veterans Project nonprofit and CEO of Patton Productions, LLC. Grandson of General George S. Patton. Son of George Patton IV