Debuted for Cubs in 1941 as right-handed-hitting catcher, but then served in military during WWII, finishing his career in 1951 with Cardinals. He managed Cubs 1957-59 and then managed the Tigers in 1961, 1962, and part of 1963
American cell biologist at the University of California. Sheckman was one of three researchers sharing the 2013 award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
(16 July 1877 - 6 December 1967) was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test/invented between 1910 and 1911 is a test used to determine whether or not a person is susceptible to diphtheria
television director writer/Photographer on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign staff, Schiller captured iconic images of Senator Kennedy during the months prior to his assassination
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. Radar Operator at Opana Radar Station where they detected the incoming Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941. Schimmel, did not see the planes coming, but was told by other operators thus was the 5th person to know of the attack
Czech-born Auschwitz survivor (1929-2023). Lost her parents and 5 siblings during the Holocaust. Married another Holocaust survivor and settled in America
WWII Manhattan Project 'Atomic Girl', born 1925. Unable to join the WAAFs, volunteered for a secret mission where she watched meters in Oak Ridge, not knowing why. After Hiroshima, she realized she'd helped produce uranium for the bomb
Centenarian and has published two volumes of her memoir, Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir and I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, as well as five children's books, which she also illustrated
Author, political commentator, and international affairs specialist. Foreign policy advisor to New York State Governor Mario Cuomo during his three terms in office. Son of historian and presidential biographer Arthur Schlesinger Jr
50-year journalism career. Broadcast analyst and author of 40 baseball books, Won awards for writing, editing, graphic design, and public service., Founder of NATJA. Co-host/executive producer of the weekly TRAVEL ITCH RADIO show
American astrophysician, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
Inventor of the Schmidt sting pain index. Has documented over 80 stings from different insects, describing the pain and the insect world through his book titled, The Sting Of The Wild
Author of Silent Impact Influence Through Purpose, Persistence and Passion,' award-winning sports broadcaster, community leader and popular keynote speaker. Joined KSTP-TV in 1985 and has won 18 Emmys from the National Television Academy
Worked in the advertising department at The Dallas Morning News in 1963 and was with Jack Ruby at the time of the assassination. His wife, Marjorie, was a volunteer at the Trade Mart luncheon
James A. Schoke was part of the Special Engineer Detachment that worked at the Met Lab at the University of Chicago on the Manhattan Project. He worked for the instrument group, inventing instruments to detect uranium, alpha rays, and more
B. August 9th 1920/WW2 Colonel/Received Silver Star for actions in Okinawa/ Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, the young platoon leader would find himself leading a rifle platoon onto the beaches of Peleliu
WWII B-17 Ball Turret Gunner of B-17 'Pot O'Gold' (42-31377), 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, damaged but on purpose not shot down by German ace Hans Hermann Muller on Feb. 22, 1944. (They later became friends)
WWII - D-Day; Company F of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. First American soldier to come ashore from a landing craft at Utah Beach
(June 20, 1895 - February 24, 1963) was a long time professional Scouter of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) who served as the Chief Scout Executive for twelve years from 1948 to 1960 /became a volunteer Scoutmaster at age 18 in 1913
Former Dept. of Defense graphics supervisor; airborne radio operator-gunner in WWII (464th Bomb Grp, 15th AF; Africa/Italy); also painted nose art. After the war, Army cartoonist who did decades of Army cartoons incl. the Berlin Air Lift
WWII: D-Day. Omaha Beach. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. Battle of the Bulge
Memoir, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army. The ghost soldiers were members of the XX Corps, which earned the title Ghost Corps when, during combat/Typist for a Colonel in G-3
WWII: German bomber and fighter communications, pilot 1940-1945 (103 missions). 23 night bombing misions (DO-217) over England incl. London (1942/1943). Bf-109 pilot for JG 5 in 1944 in Finland. POW, 3 victories. Also flew ME-109G, ME-110C and JG51
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: Army Air Corps in the Phillippines. Surrendered and was part of the Bataan Death March (9 April 1942). Spent the rest of the war as a POW. After the war, he went on the be a jeweler and sold Elvis' the first of the famous TCB necklace
(Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company B, 2826th Engineer Battalion, 36th Combat Engineers. participated in the amphibious invasion of Southern France in August 1944. He was in many battles throughout France and Germany during the war
WWII - German paratrooper of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 (6th Paratrooper Regiment); fought in the Battle of Carentan where his regiment had a direct frontline to the famous 'Band of Brothers' of Dick Winters
One of the last crew members and survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history. He is now 86 and recently wrote the book "The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff"
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.
WWII - Iwo Jima survivor. Radioman at 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division. He landed in the first 35 minutes of the battle. His duties also included protecting the Navajo Code Talkers
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: PTO. Assigned to the USS Lexington (CV-2) before Pearl Harbor, he served there until she was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942. Later at USS Suwannee (Operation Torch, North-Africa)
Author, The Iran Contradiction. Former Military Officer Vietnam 1967. 101st Airborne Divison. Wounded during North Vietnamese Army's Tet Offensive of 1968
Former CIA agent who served in the Cold War; trained Tibetans for paratrooper service, trained South-Vietnamese, many missions, including Operation Cold Feet in 1962, where he operated the Skyhook system (007 movie 'Thunderball')
British-Argentine WWII veteran. Left Argentina as a volunteer for the 794 Naval Air Squadron, part of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Army. Last known Latin American pilot of Spitfire
A captain in the 3rd U.S. Inf. Reg. in '63 , Scott was stationed in Washington the weekend of the assassination and was assigned outside St. Matthew's Cathedral during the funeral . Was standing close to John Jr. at the time of his salute
JFK - Secret Service, later household staff director at the White House. Served from Truman to Clinton. Assisted Jackie Kennedy in the funeral preparations
British born rocket scientist who worked on the construction of The Black Knight Rocket, the United Kingdom's first rocketry project after WW2. Lives on the Isle of Wight or in the UK
A stenographer with South-Western Pub. Co. in '63 , she worked on the 2nd floor of the TSBD .
Standing on the north side of Elm St. , she witnessed the assassination and can be seen on the Zapruder film
Fort Worth Police Officer , worked the Kennedy motorcade route to Hotel Texas on Nov. 21 . After the assassination he guarded the Oswald remains at Miller Funeral Home
WWII: Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Exeter, 1 March 1942. Also served during the Battle of the River Plate (1939). Spent 3 years as a Japanese POW
American serial killer who struck New York City from 1990 to 1993. Before being caught in 1996, he killed three people and critically wounded four. Seda is believed to have admired San Francisco?s Zodiac Killer for avoiding capture
Co-pilot on flights backing up Air Force 1 during JFK presidency.Former U.S. Air Force captain. Met Kennedy family & spent time with Caroline & John Jr. During Cuban missile crisis, his plane carried a JFK decoy during a top-secret flight
WW2/Japanese American/Go For Broke/US Army
Units served 442nd regiment, 3rd battalion, Company L/Purple Heart; 2 Unit Citations; O'Connor Task Force; Bruyeres
American lawyer, radio talk show host, political consultant, Executive Director at the American Center for Law & Justice, a conservative international public interest law firm and watchdog group founded by his father, Jay Sekulow
JFK - Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Parkland in 1963 and part of the team trying to save President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Also summoned to Dachau to testify as an expert witness in the trial of a Nazi doctor in 1947
B-17 bomber pilot, WWII, 8th Air Force. Shot down by a FW-109 over Ruhland, Germany, 12 September 1944. Sole survivor in a crew of ten. P.O.W. for 9 months. PH AM POW medals
WWII: 4th Battalion, 29th Infantry. A communications specialist that served on D-Day (3rd or 4th wave, Omaha Beach), The Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau
WWII: ETO. 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
Actress including: 'I Dream of Jeannie' (1966) in the episode of: 'Richest Astronaut in the World' as Helga; and as Linda in the 1970 movie: 'Horror of the Blood Monsters' aka 'Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet'; plus as Anna in 'Run for Your Life.'1965
American Nobel Laureate who is the professor of pediatrics. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 'discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability' with William Kaelin Jr. and Peter J. Ratcliffe
American physicist born March 14, 1909, at the 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity). Wrote 'The Los Alamos Primer' who was a printed project 'Wiki' for new team members.
American Child Actress,Author and Historian born 1918.knowed as BABY PEGGY in silent movies 1920-28.'Helens Babies','Family Secret','Jack and the Beanstalk','Little Rascal','Hansel and Gretel','Cpt.January' Born: 10/26/1918
98-years old British veteran of the Spanish Civil War; living in the United Kingdom, featured in the documentary, 'The First Will Be The Last' by Pasquale D'Aiello
Carmine Sessa, alias Carmine Marletta (born 1951) is an Italian-American mobster, chef and hitman who became the consigliere of the Brooklyn-based Colombo crime family and played a key role in the family from 1991 to 1993
WWII: Coast Guard Yeoman Second Class of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Women's Reserve, known as the SPARS (from the Latin Semper Paratus, meaning Always Ready.). She served in numerous non - combat roles from California to Alaska
(1935-2010) Was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions. He worked in ground control for the Salyut 6 station before returning to spacecraft design in the 1980s to work on the Buran project
WWII - Iwo Jima. CO of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Div. His 3rd Platoon, led by 1st Lt Wells, is the most decorated Marines Platoon in history. He is the CO who selected the men who went up Mt. Suribachi
(Born 1930) US Army Korean War Veteran. 2nd Infantry Division. hit with shrapnel on his helmet and received a severe head wound on October 24, 1952 which he would later get the Purple Heart for. Medically discharged in 1953
John Edward Sexton is an American lawyer and academic. Sexton served as the 15th President of NYU, from 2002 to 2015. He also authored Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game with Thomas Oliphant & Peter J. Schwartz
WWII: US Navy veteran. Battle of Midway (June 1942), Battle of Santa Cruz (October 1942), Battle of Formosa (1944), a.o. Served on USS Russell (DD-414) and USS Houston (CL-81)
English archaeologist best known for her studies of The Yeti aka The Abominable Snowman and The Almas, the wild man of Mongolia. Now lives in North Yorkshire, England
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
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
Chaired first meeting with the Network Working Group to create the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications. Pioneer of the internet
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.'
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
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'
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Japanese politician (1887-1957). WWII Foreign Affairs Minister and post-war Deputy Prime Minister. Signed the WWII Instrument of Surrender, as Japan's representative
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
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
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
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
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
WWII Soviet Veteran, Rifleman, Battle of Stalingrad Platoon Commander and Signal Officer, Baltic Region, Tashkent. Lives in Canada, possibly Calgary. Born 1924 Minsk, Belarus
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
(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
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
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
(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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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