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Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Andrea Doria in 1956 (Born: 1947) She was 9 at the time and was one of 1,706 passengers and crew on the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Now aged 69, she lives in the USA
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One of the oldest persons in the United Kingdom, born in 1904. She was one of the survivors of The 1918 flu pandemic aka Spanish Flu, which lasted from June 1918 to December 1920and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million people
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On November 22, 1963, the day of her wedding shower, Sims saw the President's motorcade on Main Street. Previously she had met Ruby when he tried to convince her to audition at the Carousel Club
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Dallas Police Detective in 1963 , on the 22nd was at the Trade Mart , Parkland Memorial and later at the TSBd
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2nd oldest man in Canada born 1911. WWII veteran
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Chief hangman of Singapore
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Firefighter, 9/11
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He is known for saving the life of United States President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt
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Chief Judge US District Court for District of Columbia, famous for role in Watergate scandal. He rose to national prominence during the Watergate scandal when he ordered President Nixon to turn over recordings of White House conversations
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Republican elector who resigned as an elector rather than vote for Donald Trump
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The world's second-oldest man. Born 1900
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Supercentenarian. Born 1904. French nun
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JFK//At age 16 Sittel saw President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Dallas Love Field
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She helped steady Abraham Zapruder as he stood on a concrete pedestal making his famous film of the Kennedy assassination
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Mall of America's first Asian-American Santa Claus
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Last survivor of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster. 09/07/2011
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Secret Service Agent/Guarded 7 presidents, including JFK, LBJ, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Nixon, duty at the White House on Nov 22
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Boy witness to Hindenburg crash in 1937
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Girl who was born inside of the Statue of Liberty in 1982
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First person to ever let loose a personal computer virus (1982)
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Veteran of Polish-Soviet War. Born: 1906. (1920 Battle of Warsaw)
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Double for Queen Elizabeth
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Crewman on USS Indianapolis/Survivor
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Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technological solutions to global problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a Dutch foundation which develops advanced systems to rid world's oceans of plastic
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JFK Assassination/Age 16 & school let out, above Kennedy's motorcade when he was shot. She 1st mistook the shots fired for a car backfiring. She thinks back to the moment when she returned to school less than an hour after Kennedy was shot
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JetBlue fight attendant who dramatically quit his job by opening the E-chute on his plane and sliding down
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Warren Commission Assistant Counsel/for the investigation of the JFK Assassination/Author 'Binding Promises'
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JFK - Secret Service; not in motorcade, but arrived in Dallas in the afternoon of the 22nd November 1963 to support the investigations; examined TSBD Sixth Floor among other things; began his career under Eisenhower
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Former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal National Mortage Association; Secretary of the Smithsonian (2000-2007)
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Miss America 1926
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She attended Beauregard Junior High at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald
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Charlie Smith (5)
Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams -
Daniel Smith (6)Living son of an American Slave
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Born July 14, 1914) was the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa
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One of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918.Age 104 in 2015 and lived in the West Midlands of England
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President of Joseph Smith Senior and Lucy Mack Smith Foundation/ born 1907
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US Marine Corps 4 Star General. Fought in the Gulf War, Iraq War, and War in Afghanistan. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Distinguished Service Cross, and Legion of Merit recipient
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US centenarian, born 1918. Survived the 1918 Flu as an infant, contracted from her mother who died of it when she was a few months old. At 102, one of the first to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in her Florida area
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Former CIA Agent, Married to Barbara Hearn
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Dallas policeman , standing at the corner of Elm and Houston , in front of the TSBD at the time of President Kennedy's assassination
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13th oldest Person in the World Born 1893.
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Witness to Rosa Parks' bus ride in 1955. Standing bus behind Parks, she eventually got off the bus with a group of people and walked home. She was an elevator operator where Parks worked as a seamstress
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Buffalo Soldier of WWII (1923-2021). Badly wounded in Italy alongside John Fox (one of the few Black MOH recipients of WWII), held POW by Germany. Teaching career, known as 'Doc Rock'
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Was one of the first Swing female drummers. Born: 11/28/1912 In 2016, she was reportedly still actively drumming at the age of 105 in a Costa Mesa band called Forever Young Band, as one of the oldest mainstream musicians still alive
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William Smith (4)A News Photographer for the Dallas Times Herald , he was one of three photographers to take photos of three ' tramps 'as they were led away from a railroad car to be questioned on Nov. 22 , 1963
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newsmaker
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97 year old artist and Cabaret performer born in Poland
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(born July 8, 1916) is a former Republican South Carolina State Senator who also served as United States Chief of Protocol under President Richard M. Nixon from 1969-74 and was a member of the presidential campaign staff and Transition Team
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MIT alumnus who was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from 2003 to 2004
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Subject of the new WWII book 'Spearhead'
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One of the last known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. He is now 100 years old and lives at Island View Suites in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada. Also a survivor of the the Almonte Train Wreck of 1942
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Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Senior CIA strategy analyst in Saigon and one of the last CIA men to be airlifted off the embassy roof amidst the chaos/Peabody-Award winning investigative journalist and broadcaster http://franksnepp.com/
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One of the many survivors of the Blitz, a series of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. She lived in London at the time. She is now in her eighties and lives in London
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An American computer professional, former CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013
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The last lighthouse keeper in the United States. also an author
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Woman who claims to be the nurse being kissed by the sailor in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous VJ Day 1945 photo on the cover of Life Magazine
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Former Soviet Military Marshal (Soviet Army) and the last surviving veteran from The Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Husband Robert was head advertising department at Dallas Times Herald in 1963. She vice president of Dallas chapter of League of Women Voters/Both attended Adlai Stevenson event on U.N. Day & at Trade Mart luncheon day of the assassination
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#4 oldest person in the world lives in France. Born: Sept.7,1894
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U.S. Army veteran, who was captured by the Nazis in 1944, after bombing a Nazi bunker
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Author of Journey to the Golden Door and a Holocaust survivor. Won 1981 National Teacher of the Year, an honor bestowed at the White House, after which he served on President Reagan?s National Commission on Excellence in Education
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Jewish survivor of the Nazis and a WWII veteran. Born in turbulent post-war Germany and witnessed the rise of National Socialism/Managed to escape in January 1939 and immigrated to America. He fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII
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American author and inventor most notable for being the U.S. prosecution team's chief interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials. Fought at Battle of the Bulge. Part of the RCA team that invented color tv. Worked for NASA on the moon landings
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Survivor of the crash and last living adult crewman of the Hindenburg. Died in 2005
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Survivor of the Holocaust (Auschwitz concentration camp). Also a lecturer and author
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JFK - SAIC of the Dallas Secret Service office, was in the lead car ahead of Kennedy when the president was shot on Nov. 22, 1963
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JFK - The "baby in the picture", as the press called her: On November 22, 1963, at Love Field, Dallas, the Kennedys shook hands with the crowd, and as it happened, Jackie touched baby Peggy - a moment was immortalized in photographs
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JFK: DPD officer after Oswald's shooting, at guard duty at Parkland Hospital while the autopsy on Oswald was performed
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Survived the Almonte Train Wreck, 27 December 1942. Reportedly living in Carleton Place, Ontario
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Spanish Flu & COVID-19 survivor. 1918-2021
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Pilot
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On the morning of November 22, 1963, young John Sparks joined his fellow high school band members to play 'Hail to the Chief' for President John F. Kennedy. Hours later like the rest of the world, Sparks learned of Kennedy's assassination
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United States Air Aces
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Architect, son of nazi officer Albert Speer
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One of the last few survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, born 1917. She lives in Canada
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WW2 Veteran/100th Infantry Division & 82nd Airborne Division/July 1944, reassigned to 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Infantry Glider Regiment, Company C/Remembers seeing smoke from guns below crossing the English Channel toward Holland
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Survived the Almonte Train Wreck, 27 December 1942
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US Army vet, born 1925. 'Undesirable' discharge for being gay, 1948. Hid the anguish from his family, until he married his partner of decades in 2009 and fought years for an honorable discharge, which came at the age of 91 in 2017
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Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
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The last surviving woman to have flown on the Hindenburg, born in 1925. Her flight was in Sept. 1936, her mother named it's 1,000th passenger. She grew up to be one of South Carolina's leading environmentalists
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Granddaughter of Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland)
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US Navy 'Atomic Veteran', born 1928. Operation Crossroads atomic tests witness in 1946. Enlisted 1945, but recruiter held him off since he had four brothers serving. But ended up exposed to radiation, fighting skin cancers later in life
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JFK: Witnessed the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 23, 1963
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Retired American police officer who infiltrated the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the late 1970s. He was the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department.'
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Head Nurse of emergency rooms at Parkland Memorial and assisted with care of Gov. Connolly in Trauma Room 2 on Nov. 22 , 1963
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WW2 POW 31st Infantry Regiment U.S. Army, was captured & shipped to Yokkaichi city in Japan where was forced to shovel coal at copper mill/suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, but recovered & held career as corrections officer in Conn
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Classmate of John F. kennedy , waiting to have lunch with him on Nov.22 , 1963 , part of Dallas Citizen's Council
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Bismarck survivor
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Son of World War II colonel and resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg
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U.S. Navy 4-Star Admiral; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (2009-2013); Commander, U.S. Southern Command (2006-2009)
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British intelligence officer & founding director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-intelligence firm. Author of a controversial 2016 report calming Russia collected a file of compromising information on Donald Trump that was paid for by Democrats
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Born 1895. #42 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Connecticut.
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American centenarian, born 1918. Survived the 1918 Flu as an 8 month old infant. Became an art teacher, and learned to fly a plane in the 1940s before she learned to drive
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Last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Born in 1908 and lives in a retirement home in Illinois
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Dallas Policeman, at the Dallas Trademart when JFK shot. On the scene days later when Oswald was shot
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WW2/Battle of the Bulge/101st FA 26 Yankee Division
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Goddaughter of President Kennedy. Her late father, James A. Reed, and John F. Kennedy were longtime friends, having met in the South Pacific during World War II. Reed served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1962 to 1965
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American Woman Born 1910. One of the Oldest People in America
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WW2/Member of Ritchie Boys, a military intelligence unit composed of German, Austrian, & Czech refugees & immigrants to the US, mostly Jewish. Member of (interrogators of prisoners of war) Team 37. For this he gained the Bronze Star Medal
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Snakemaster
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Author of 'Just Mercy', Civil RIghts Leader
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John Stewart (4)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
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sports guy now in jail..
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Black Sharecropper during the Depression Era/Author 'My RememberS: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression'
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One of the last surviving construction workers who worked on The Shasta Dam which began construction in 1938. He is now 93 years old and lives in Anderson, California, U.S.A
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Was on the swing horse for the caisson for President Kennedy's funeral
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Glamorous jet-setting model, mistress of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling who recorded his racist remarks
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Author of 'Dracula the Un-dead' and the great-grand nephew of Bram Stoker
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1950s black student protester at Robert Russo Moton High School, born 1931. Led to one of the five cases part of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Career as a teacher and principal
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Chief Electrician USS Darter (SS-227) in October 1944, during Ambush at Palawan Passage. Then, Bill was the Chief Electrician when the Menhaden was commissioned in June of 1945
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Born October 30, 1922, in Kishinev, Romania is the sole survivor of the torpedo-sinking of the Holocaust refugee ship the Struma by a Soviet submarine, the Shchuka 213 in the Black Sea in the early morning of February 24, 1942
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Former gatekeeper at Graceland
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American journalist and magazine editor. He's most well known for his work at Time magazine, met with Abraham Zapruder to get the rights for the Zapruder film
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One of the last witnesses of The Battle of Cable Street, London. She is now 96 and lives in London, UK. Possibly deceased, needs confirming
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Michael Stone (3) Psychologist/doctor on the history televisions hit tv series 'Most Evil'
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Political consultant, lobbyist, and strategist, born 1952.Began in the Nixon administration, and became a major adviser to Donald Trump
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NASA Recovery Team leader for missions from John Glenn through Apollo 12. Briefed Nixon during his welcome home meeting with the Apollo 11 crew on the USS Hornet
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Alias Murad Storm & Murad Storm Ad-Denemarki, Danish former agent of Danish Security & Intelligence Service (PET) operated in Islamic militant circles. Identity became public knowledge 2012 when he came forward in newspaper Jyllands-Posten
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Took the only known photo of Marilyn Monroe and JFK together
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Born 1896 #61 oldest person in the world. Lives in Tennessee.
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/An American Red Cross Donut Dollie with the 9th Infantry Division and Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam
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Autopsy on John F Kennedy
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Kennedy campaign volunteer shot in the assassination of Robert Kennedy by Shirhan Sirhan in 1968
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Centenarian (1905-2008), witness of 2 major aviation events. In the 1909 crowd that watched O.Wright demonstrate his plane for the US military. Married to WWII Marine, lived on hill near Pearl Harbor in 1941, first bomb hit nearby house
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Designed and implemented the C++ programming language. Professor of Computer Science in Columbia University in New York City
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One of the oldest women in Britain. She is now 109 and when she was a small girl, waved off the Titanic at Southampton. She now lives in Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
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Philanthropist, historian is a great-granddaughter of 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the granddaughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Witness to JFK assassination from a 4th story window in the Texas School Book Depository, close to Oswald's window. Figure in the controversial timing of Oswald's departure from the building
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/Staff Sgt./Military Police, US Army, Defense Attaché's Staff
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Last performer at the 1st NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen 3 January 1951
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Son of Chiune Sugihara, the Chinese 'Oskar Schindler', living in Antwerp, Belgium
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'Rocketman' from the 1984 Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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The Octomom; California woman famous for having octuplets and a total of fourteen children via in vitro fertilisation,Starred in Adult Movie 'Home Alone'
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JFK: Secret Service agent for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter as well as Vice Presidents Agnew and Rockefeller. Korean War veteran
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2001/American electrician best known for operating a fully robotic limb through a nerve-muscle graft, making him one of the first non-fictional cyborgs
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2005 Disney Legend
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JFK - Assassination witness clearly seen in the Zapruder movie, just a few yards from the incident, as the man diving to the ground as the shots rang out
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Businessman and Co-founder of Lime Bikes
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Former Alcatraz Inmate. He is currently free and lives somewhere in Pittsburg. He was a good friend of Whitey Bulger at Alcatraz. AZ-1431
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Politician, Comedian, and Presidential Canidate
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Supercentenarian Born 1906 Oldest person living in Nebraska
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Politics
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Born Jan. 28, 1954 Was A Honor Guard (?) and helped Betty Ford at Gerald Ford's funeral
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The second Disneyland Ambassador (1966)
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Survivor and eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. She is the wife of William A. Swanson
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Survivor and eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. Maybe still living, not sure
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B.1927 Former FBI Special Agent from 51-77, author FBI Secrets & To Kill a President/Served Navy during WW2/Began career doing "black bag jobs" on Communists in Chicago. In Kentucky & NYC, spent years doing serious criminal investigations
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American former biathlete. In 1984, she was a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. relay team at the first women's Biathlon World Championships. In July 1984 she was kidnapped by two 'Mountain Men' near Bozeman, Montana and held captive for 18 days.
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9th Oldest Person in the World
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Doctor
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Kansas City, MO
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One of Anne Frank's friends lives in Amstelveen today
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Former USMC that served in the US Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper Platoon during the Gulf War. He was apart of STA Platoon 2 Blatoon 7th Marines. Author of Jarhead and many novels
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Dust bowl survivor and WWII veteran, born 1917. Fought in campaigns including Tunisia, Sicily, and Rome (where he met the Pope), and later helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Alleged thief of Binion silver
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Born 1895. One of oldest people in world. Lives in Guadeloupe
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Was featured as an infant in Nazi propaganda after her photo won a contest to find 'the most beautiful Aryan baby' in 1935. Taft's image was subsequently distributed widely by the Nazi party in a variety of materials, despite being Jewish
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Grandson of President William Howard Taft
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Son Of Robert Taft Jr
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Great Great grandson of Pres. William HowardTaft.Son of William Howard Taft IV
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Former Governor of Ohio (1999-2007) born 1942, Great Grandson Of President William Howard Taft
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Survivor of the Nuclear bomb in nagasaki
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Witness of the assassination of John F. kennedy in Dallas. Wounded in the cheek by a sidewalk fragment from a bullet fired at the President
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One of two of Holocaust last living survivors of Nazi death camp Treblinka/Estimated that between 800.000 and 1.2million prisoners were taken to Treblinka/Lives in Israel
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Creator of Pokemon and founder of Gamefreak
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JFK/Kennedy Honor Guard Death Watch/Death watch at White House & Capital Grounds
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Oldest man in the world as of 2007. Born Sept 18, 1895. Lives in Miyakonojo, Japan.
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One of the many survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He is now 76
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1926 in California, moved to Japan at age 6. Drafted into the Japanese army during WWII, he was helping to dig an air raid shelter into a hill about a mile and a half from Hiroshima's center when the bomb hit. He emerged to see
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John Tanner (3)State attorney that prayed with Ted Bundy prior to his execution
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Firefighter caught in the World Trade Centre attacks on September 11 2001. Survived the collapse and is featured in the Naudet documentary, 9/11
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Supercentenarian born 1906 5th oldest person living in France
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Born 1896 #71 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Germany.
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American aviator, notable for being in the late summer and early fall of 1976 the first person in history to successfully fly a homebuilt aircraft around the world. World War II Veteran
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Dallas Police Detective in '63 , he helped to arrest Oswald at Texas Theatre
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Ken Taylor (3) Former Canadian Ambassador To Iran, Helped a Group Of American Avoid Capture
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Is the founder and president of the Antique Airplane Association Inc. as well as co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Airpower Museum. Also is a World War II Veteran
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Distinguished correspondent at NBC who helped integrate TV news. Worked as a radio news writer, sports copy editor, reporter, anchorman and producer for more than three decades. Authored books exploring race in American society
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Supercentenarian, born 1874
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Daughter of Cumbrian (UK) firefighter called - Jim Templeton, is the little in the famous photo of the 'Solway Firth Spaceman'
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Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during Queen Victoria's reign. 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', 'Break, Break, Break', 'Crossing the Bar'
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Spanish Civil War Veteran. Spanish Republic. Lives in Berlin. Born: 11/26/1918
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Bolivian army sergeant, who executed Che Guevara in 1967
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Closest living relative of Nikola Tesla and a Founding Director, Chairman of the Executive Board and, since 1998, Executive Secretary of the Tesla Memorial Society, Inc
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Spiritual Leader
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Musician, Presidential Candidate ,Anti-Gay and Pro-Life Activist. Founded Operation Rescue. Got glitter bombed by Vermin Supreme during a debate
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Grand-grandchild of the one of world's greatest inventor's, Nikola Tesla. In 1968, he wrote the book 'Tesla about Tesla'
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One of the youngest descendant of the man who invented the 20th century, Serbian-born American immigrant Nikola Tesla. She is 20 and lives in Smederevo, Serbian town near Belgrade
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WWII D-Day veteran, served on LCT transporting troops and supplies to the beaches under heavy fire. Also met Babe Ruth as a 5 year old in 1928 when his uncle played for the Red Sox
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German inventor of board game - The Settlers of Catan
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Super Centenarian born June 6, 1897 lives in Nebraska
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US Supercentenarian (1891-2005). A 1918 Flu survivor and most likely the last living person to have visited and have memories of the 1901 Pan Am Exposition
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Witness 1937 Hindenburg Disaster. Lives in Pompton Lakes, NJ
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Edward Thomas (4) World War 2 Vet was a Pfc and fought in Iwo Jima
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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
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Dancer, performed with Bob Hope in his USO tours during World War Two
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Eating Competition Champion
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Became the first deaf person to work as an undercover investigator doing lip-reading of suspects for the Federal Bureau of Investigation/Autobiography entitled Silent Night/TV series Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye
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US Centenarian, born 1912. Lived through the 1918 Flu and COVID-19. WWII Navy veteran, patrolled the Aleutian Islands
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Dorothy 'Auntie Dottie' Thompson, who helped found and direct the Merrie Monarch Festival, Hawaii's most prestigious showcase for hula
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John Thompson (5)Former owner of the ' Oswald House ' where Marina snapped photo of husband holding rifle in the backyard
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Nurse at Methodist Hospital in Dallas and attended Officer J.D. Tippit when he was admitted
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(1893 - April 12, 1953) was a private secretary and personal aide to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a pioneer of the East Wing staff, being the first staffer for a First Lady of the United States who was not a social secretary
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Former U.S. Army helicopter pilot who rescued unarmed Vietnamese civilians from his fellow GIs during what became known as the My Lai massacre,
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Former British Airways cabin crew member (Born: 1927) who worked on the first jet flight from London to New York in 1958 on the de Havilland Comet 4
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American Photojournalist, born 1939. Pulitzer for his 1966 photo of James Meredith being shot. Based in Mississippi, he covered many historic civil rights moments, including the Mississippi Burning murders, Selma, and Martin Luther King's funeral
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United States Air Aces
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The woman whose conception led to the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion case, has revealed herself publicly for the first time as the 'Roe baby.'
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Survivor of the Mai Lai Massacre
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Young swedish climate activist
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CBS Radio typist, born 1930. Typed the scripts for various radio stars and their shows, including Burns and Allen and Jack Benny
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Is a centenarian and is a Canadian politician and judge. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953
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One of the many survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. She is now 83
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Vietnam/UH-60 Medivac Pilot Huey Cobra Medical Ambulance
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Clerk/typist for the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. Subject of the documentary 'The Typist', as the trial's last living typist
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Sgt. Major of Army on 6/23/2000-1/15/2004. Service; Vietnam, Awards; Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3), Bronze Star w/V Device, Meritorious Service Medal (2), Commendation Medal (3), Achievement Medal(3) & Presidential Unit Citation
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Super Centenarian Age:114, Oldest Person in the World
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMT Lancastria during Operation Ariel (17 June 1940). It is estimated that there were 6.500 fatalities, representing a greater loss of life than the Titanic and Lusitania disasters combined
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La Drang Valley, LZ-Xray Vietnam Way
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Motorcade spectator who filmed the Kennedys at the corner of Main and Harwood Streets in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963
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The world's oldest man, as of April 2024. Aged 112
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Daughter of slain Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald 11/23/1963 after JFK/John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated
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Youngest Son of slain Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald 11/23/1963 after JFK/John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated
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Wife of Officer J.D. Tippit, Murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald
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WW2/from Poole in Dorset, Wren in Bletchley Park Naval Section working on ?Allied Plot?. A chart of the world covering all 4 walls & Wrens plotted the movement of all the allied ships and their German, Italian and Japanese opposite numbers
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A Dallas County Deputy Sheriff in '63 , Todd observed the Kennedy motorcade and was then involved in the initial search of the TSBD
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English centenarian and one of the top 30 oldest people in Britain and the oldest person in the North West. She is now 109 and lives in Ashton, Preston, Lancashire, UK. Her father worked on the construction of 'The Blackpool Tower' in the 1890's
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As a girl, was one of the students connected to the Topeka, KS Brown v. Board of Education case. Her mother was the adult plaintiff on her behalf, along with several other Topeka area families. Her mother was also actively involved in organizing the case
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Supercentenarian (1889-2002), one of the last Italian WWI veterans, and at the time of his death, the world's oldest man
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Navajo Code Talker/3rd Battalion/9th Regiment
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One of the survivors and witnesses to The Chernobyl disaster, that occurred on 26 April 1986 in Ukraine, Russia. He was fishing at the shore of the cooling water channel and witnessed the explosion. Lives in Russia
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Russo-British monarchist and historian. He is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party and is the current nominal head of the House of Tolstoy, a Russian noble family. Direct descendant of Leo Tolstoy
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Counselor for Political Affairs, held at Iranian Foreign Ministry Office
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Owner national millinery company based in Dallas, attended Adolphus Hotel luncheon on 11/4/1960, where LBJ & Lady Bird were heckled by bystanders. On November 22, 1963, Tonkon observed the President's motorcade on Cedar Springs Road
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British Police Chief involved with solving the Moor Killers
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JFK - Secret Service 1937-1967
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(Born 27 July 1924) was a Feldwebel in the German Army who served as Adolf Hitler's personal dog-handler. He was one of the last people to occupy the Führerbunker when it was captured by Soviet Red Army troops. Living in Paulinenhof in Hervest, part
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Last survivor of the "Morro Castle" passenger ship disaster of 1934
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Finnish software engineer, initiated the development of the Linux kernel; Author
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One of six teens that went to JFK Airport to see the Beatles in 1964 and Ringo Starr took a picture of them. Pictured in Starr's book 'Photograph'
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English locomotive engineer who was part of the team that built the Flying Scotsman and the Mallard during 'The Golden Age of Steam'. Born: 1923. He is now 93 and lives in the UK
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Assassination witness , James photographed the ' Umbrella Man ' and the ' Dark Complected Man ' on Elm St . moments after the shooting
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#22 oldest person in the world lives in Japan born 1894
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One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
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Founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha sauce/Vietnamese businessman and former Major in the army of South Vietnam
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Swedish author, Nobel Price 2011
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Original Rosie the Riviter in wwii posters saying ' we can do it' over 100 yrs old lives in Pennsylvania
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JFK - President John F. Kennedy's personal physician
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Dust Bowl survivor
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Civil Rights Activist/ Sept 11, 1963, along with 2 other courageous students, seized the opportunity to change dark traditions of segregation at University of South Carolina & became 1st African American students to attend the university
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In '63 he was a 2nd year medical student at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas . On Nov. 22 he waited with fellow students outside of the emergency entrance at Parkland Memorial to hear word of President Kennedy's condition
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Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard. Taught Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, John Roberts, Elena Kagan
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Radio operator on Air Force One on President's trip to Dallas in 1963
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One of the last surviving veterans of The Contestado War, which was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners that lasted from 1912 to 1916. She is now 105 and lives in Lebon Régis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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The last surviving child of an American Civil War soldier (Born: 1930) She collects $876 a year from the government as thanks for her father taking part in the war, which ended 151 years ago. She is now 86 and lives in the USA
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U.S. Civil Servant known for her involvement with the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895 Lives in France
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Civil rights figure. Father a plaintiff on her behalf in Delaware's Belton v. Gebhart case that was part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit
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Former British Secret Service Agent/Professor in physics and expert in secret warfare by means of microwaves
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Assistant Dallas District Attorney in 1963, Troy saw President's motorcade on Main Street. As part of the prosecution team during the Ruby trial in 1964, Troy prepared witnesses and sat in on every day of the trial
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Founding member of the Hells Angels in Quebec
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JFK - Lee Harvey Oswald's supervisor at the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), Dallas; interviewed and hired Oswald on October 15, 1963. Can be seen in several photographs and movies from 22 November 1963
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Mystery Author. Daughter of Harry S. and Bess Truman
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Author of the labyrinth of dangerous hours and survivor of auschwitz
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Daughter Of Winston Churchill
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Pulitzer Prize winner , ditorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a syndicated colu
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JFK - Secret Service agent since 1959, mainly for the Kennedy family ('Kiddie detail'); later at the Chicago field office; in service up to Nixon era
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Jackie Kennedy's White House social secretary
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Dallas high school student, Tullius took photographs at Love Field & along motorcade route. Following the assassination, he met other amateur photographers and collected a number of slides, which he later donated to The Sixth Floor Museum
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(August 9, 1900-June 15, 1984), private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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US Navy vet, born 1927. Witness to Operation Crossroads atomic tests in 1946
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Super-centenarian. Born: 09/19/1898
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Production Manager at local independent KTVT-TV in '63 , he directed their pool coverage of Pres. Kennedy's breakfast speech in Fort Worth and , for NBC outside the Dallas County Jail
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An officer in the Navy Ceremonial Guard , he helped unload President Kennedy's casket from Air Force One on its return from Dallas . On Monday he marched in funeral procession to Arlington Nat'l Cemetery
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Grandson of President John Tyler
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Bloodline/Great Grandson of US President John Tyler
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Granddaughter of Pres. John Tyler
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Civil Rights Freedom Rider who was beaten up registering voters in 1960s Mississippi
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Maitre d' who was leading Robert Kennedy through the kitchen at the Ambassador Hotel when he was assasinated by Sirhan Sirhan; he also helped subdue Sirhan
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One of the oldest people in the world. Lives in Japan. Born 1895
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USS Indianapolis Survivor/PFC
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Survivor and eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. Father of Sonny Ulrich. Now lives in Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A
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Last surviving eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. He was 8 years old at the time, with his father and survived the huge wave. Now lives in Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A
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Assistant news director at KRLD-TV in Dallas , James was on the scene moments after the assassination on November 22
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Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, veteran of The Battle of Arnhem
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Veteran of Polish-Soviet War. Born: 1902. (1920 Battle of Warsaw)
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Housekeeping director at Parkland Memorial who lowered flag to half-mast after death of President Kennedy
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Russian survivor of Auschwitz. Lives in the Russian city of Ryazan
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Mexican supercenterian (Born: 1905) One of the world's oldest people. She lived with those who participated in the Mexican Revolution. She lives in San Jerónimo, Guerrero, Mexico
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Vietnam/U.S. Marines Master Gunnery Sgt./On-board last helicopter leaving the U.S. Embassy at fall of Saigon/Lives Vista, CA
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Oldest Person/Netherlands - Deceased 2005
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Eighth President 1837-1841
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One of six teens that went to JFK Airport to see the Beatles in 1964 and Ringo Starr took a picture of them. Pictured in Starr's book 'Photograph'
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One of Anne Frank's friends lives in Amsterdam
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895 Lives in the Netherlands.
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1950's Quiz Show Scandal Contestant
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Tulsa Race Massacre survivor
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Employee of Gawlers Funeral Home , John helped prepare Pres. Kennedy's body for viewing and burial
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One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest tornado in American history that occured on Wednesday, March 18, 1925. She is now 98 and lives in Mount Vernon, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A with her grandson Timothy Gist
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Irish Taoiseach, prime minister; first gay man, youngest person, and first member of an ethnic minority to hold that post in Ireland; Fine Gael politician
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Artist, poet, scientist specializing in linguistics & writer; 'Me & Lee' 'When the Clouds Came Flying By: Poems for Kids & Classrooms' 'A Dangerous Thing to Do: Poems for Intelligent Readers' 'David Ferrie' /Lee Harvey Oswald's girlfriend Summer of 1963
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Last survivor of the SS Chelyuskin disaster. A Soviet steamship reinforced to navigate through polar ice that became ice-bound in Arctic waters during navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok. He is now 87
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JFK - Campaign staffer for Kennedy in the early 1950s
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Miss Puerto Rico 1948. That same year she became the first Latina to compete in the Miss America Pageant
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JFK - Veasey drove one of the press cars in the Kennedy Dallas motorcade. Following the assassination, he was assigned guard duty for Gov. Connally at Parkland Memorial Hospital
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student protester (in the famous pictures of the shooting of students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State)
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Took the Pulitzer Prize winning photo 'Burst of Joy'
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German Army. Verfied Veteran of World War 2. Lives in Germany. Born: 01/15/1903
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Child survivor of the Holocaust
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Russian Lawyer that meet with Donald Trump Jr. to give him damaging material on Hillary Clinton to tamper with the 2016 Presidential election
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Spy/Serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in US Department of Defense/Served Army Special Forces as non & commissioned officer & Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary operations officer elite Special Activities Division
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BP well site leader from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, pleaded guilty to ?negligently causing the massive oil spill,? /Transocean oil rig Deepwater Horizon that blew up in 2010, the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history
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Living in the Russian city of Minsk when Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union. Vigushin was acquainted with both Oswald & his future wife, Marina Prusakova, & he practiced at the same firing range as Oswald between 1960 & 1961
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WW2/RdM2/C, USS Chatelain that captured the U-505
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Survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake/Born 1903
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Author & White House correspondent for the New York Post in the early 1960s, Viorst attended press conferences and had contact with President Kennedy. Later he interviewed Marguerite Oswald and Warren Commission chief counsel Lee Rankin
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Aviator/Writer
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One of nine surviving veterans of Spanish Civil War. Born: September 19, 1920. .Esperantist, served with the 26th Division (Spain)
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Spanish Civil War Veteran 'International Brigade' Born: 01/26/1913
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Worked for John Kennedy from 1958 to 1963, in his Press Office. Helped with his speeches, occasionally signed his name for him on items, and was waiting on Air Force One when he was shot in Dallas. Appeared on Antiques Roadshow with her mementos
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Verified German World War 2 Veteran (German Army) Lives in Germany. Born: 09/13/1902
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German-born rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, & leading figure in development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II & the United
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Last survivor of the July 20 Plot that attempted to assassinate Hitler
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The Sun Maid raisins girl
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Von Moltke was a member of the the Kreisau Circle, an anti-Nazi resistance group co-founded by her husband Helmuth, who was executed for treason in 1945. Born: 03/29/1911
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One of the oldest people in the world. Born 1895
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Helped hide Anne Frank
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American Lawyer and New York State politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1992, when he was forced to resign following a scandal.
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Former Secret Service Special Agent/COO of Teneo Risk and serves as the Global Head of Security for Teneo/ CNN Law Enforcement Analyst/News Media Contributor
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United States Air Aces
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103 Walmart worker & meet Sam Walton, Served in the Air Force during World War II serving in India and China/Flew the Hump, Himalaias/After landing a job with Walmart back in 1983, he still works five day a week at a the location in his hometown
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Former Dallas Policeman and Texas Ranger, drove the Congressional Car with James Wright in the JFK Dallas motorcade
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Dallas attorney in 1963, Waggoner saw the President's motorcade on Main Street. In March 1964, as the guest of an assistant district attorney, he observed closing arguments in the Ruby trial
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Centenarian (1899-2007), one of the last US WWI veterans, and the last living US Marine of WWI
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Honor Guard For Ex Presidents\Lives in Miami Fla
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Quest for Antonia winner
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Miss America 1947
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Dallas Police Officer in 1963 , helped to arrest Oswald at the theatre
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Edwin Walker (3) 11/10/1909-10/31/1993 US Army officer fought in WW2 & Korean. Known for ultra-conservative political views & criticized by Ike for promoting a personal political stand while in uniform/Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to kill him 4/10/1963
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Jim Walker (2)JFK/Photographed Kennedy motorcade and /was at Dealey Plaza in Dallas that fateful November day in 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy. longtime director and actor with the CRIGHTON PLAYERS
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Cardiologist
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One of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918. She is now 101 and lives in a care home near the town of Darlaston in the West Midlands of England
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Has fear of some tents even today, and serious claustrophobia
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American journalist, born 1936. Reporter who covered the Selma civil rights marches, including 'Bloody Sunday' in 1965 for the Selma Times-Journal. Decades later served as the president of the Selma Chamber of Commerce
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Georgia centenarian, born 1911. Born in Oklahoma and a Dust Bowl survivor. Believed to be the US' oldest living Eagle Scout. Army Captain in WWII, commanded 4416th Quartermaster Company.in Europe and on their way to the Pacific when the war ended
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(born 1 September 1918) is a British educationalist who founded the first all-age Montessori school in GB and the Gatehouse Learning Centre. Benemerenti Medal, conferred by Pope John Paul II. Member of the Order of the British Empire
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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
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Staff Sgt. James Harley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 - 24 January 2013) British soldier, member Glider Pilot Regiment achieved notability as pilot of 1st Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944 WW2
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace
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Dallas Sherriff - witness to the JFK assassination
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Only living individual present when John Dillinger's gang visited/overtook the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin, April 19-21, 1934. Was not present during police raid on April 22, 1934
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Former Vaudeville dancer in the Whirl of Splendor act, 1925-30. Born 1905. Shared the bill with Milton Berle, Edgar Bergen, others. Witness to a 1919 lynch mob in Omaha
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Royalty
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Original Organizer from Occupation of Alcatraz
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One of the last living ground crewmen part of the Hindenburg disaster. Then a 17 year old there to grab the lines to pull the ship to earth
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Communications officer CIA
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Justice of the Peace who tried to stop the removal of President Kennedy's body from Dallas
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Downed by enemy fire on mission, badly injured endured 3 week's hell In hellish Vietnam Jungles. When his captain revealed his membership in the Ku Klux Klan, their situation that took a roll putting him on the road to becoming a general
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Is a centenarian and also an internet celebrity
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French survivor of Auschwitz and heroine of the French Resistance. She moved to Manchester, England
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Special Agent in charge, Norfolk Field Office, NCIS
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San Francisco-based architect
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Lai Khe - First Infantry Division - July 1969-October 1969. An Khe - Fourth Infantry Division - October 1969-January 1970, Program Director. Da Nang - Third Marine Division/24th Corps - January 1970-August 1970, Unit Director
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Dallas firefighter in 1963, Warnock was sent to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the assassination. His memories of the sniper's perch differ from those of police investigators
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US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1953-1969), and previously the 30th Governor of California. Led the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and headed the Warren Commission investigation of the Kennedy assassination
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JFK - After his famous visit to Berlin, JFK stopped in the UK for less than a day to meet with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his country estate; Waters took his chance and made a few very rare photographs of Kennedy driving by
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One of the last survivors of the SS Morro Castle disaster that took place in 1934 when the ship caught fire and burned, killing 137 passengers and crew members. He is now 97 and lives with his wife Jeanne in U.S.A, maybe Wrentham, Massachusetts
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English supercentenarian and the third oldest person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1900
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Jack Watson (2)Radio Dispatcher for Dallas County Sheriff's Dept. on Nov. 22. Following the assassination he relayed info. from the Dallas Police Dept. and co-ordinated movement of the Deputy Sheriffs
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17 year old sailed solo aroung the world
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Civil rights leader
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, International Brigade, Lives in London. Born: 1913
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Heather Watts (2)
One of the last survivors from the sinking of SS Athenia. The SS Athenia was the first British ship to be sunk by Nazi Germany in World War II. She is now 77 and lives in Nova Scotia, Canada -
Creator Of Redwood National Park. Born: 09/17/1906
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White House Secretary during the Kennedy Administation. Known as Fiddle
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Interviewer, at age 11 was the youngest person to interview a sitting American President (Barack Obama)
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WW2/From Wythall Worcestershire, member of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Worked on German police messages in Mansion @ Bletchley Park. Messages revealed beginning of the Holocaust with the massacres of 1,000s of Jews on eastern front
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B. 2/17/1956) Civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Smallest Freedom Fighter's co-author of Selma, Lord, Selma. 9-year-old, took part attempt march across Edmund Pettus Bridge on 3/7/1965 march, known as Bloody Sunday
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Jean Webster (2) The fifth oldest person in England and the oldest born in Northern Ireland (Born: 1906) Her father worked as a riveter on the Titanic. She also survived the 1918 flu pandemic. She recently celebrated her 111th birthday. Lives in Northern Island
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Actress: charm school instructor in 'A League of Their Own'
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Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; staff member of The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission
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American supercentenarian (Born: 1909) She is also one of the last survivors of the 'Great Flood of 1913'. Lives in Fortville, Indiana, USA
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Holocaust Survivor/Said her mother, three younger siblings, and older brother were all murdered soon after in the gas chambers/Testified in War Crimes trial against 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Oskar Groening
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Was at Terezin Concentration Camp when she was a child. Survivor of the Holocaust
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Bob Welch (3) 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
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Pioneering aviatrix, journalist (1908-2002). Co-founder of 'Ninety-Nines' women's group with A. Earhardt, worked with Wiley Post, first female parachutist from a damaged plane, White House reporter (1963-77), 1 of 3 women reporters on Nixon's China trip
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JFK - Secret Service for Caroline & John Kennedy Jr
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Flight attendant aboard US Airways flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River
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WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran, Nuremberg Trials guard for Field Marshal Hermann Goering
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JFK: He was a member of the 4-H Club that President John F. Kennedy met at the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. 7 March 1961
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His life was the basis for the 2018 film White Boy Rick
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Titanic survivor
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Mathematician known for mathematical modelling shape of Earth, & work on development of satellite geodesy models that incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS) inducted into the US Air Force HOF in 2018
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Serial Killer - Convicted of 10 Murders with her Husband Fred West, there house became a thing of legend known as 'The House of Horrors' There backyard help the corpses of several girls they had killed including one of there own daughters they stated left
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Hiroshima survivor. 13 years old, working in a factory to support the war effort when the bomb hit. Her widowed mother died in the blast and her grandparents died of radiation sickness weeks later. She became sick but recovered and later married an Americ
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JFK - DPD Captain in the Lee Harvey Oswald, J.D. Tippit investigation
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Worked at the TSBD Nov..22 1963 JFK
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WW 2 vet/USN/Mechanic in Navy, stationed in the South Pacific and the Philippines
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Assistant Supervisor in the operating room at Parkland Memorial at the time of President Kennedy's assassination
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World record hips
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An American ornithologist and avian paleontologist; Secretary of the Smithosonian (1944-1952)
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United States Air Aces
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Member of The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) a work relief program for young men from unemployed families, started on 03/21/1933, by Pres. F.D.R. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression
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Reported from NBC affiliate WBAP-TV in Fort Worth about President Kennedy's assassination
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US WWII Marine vet, born 1915, wounded by a grenade at Iwo Jima. One of the last living workers who built the Hoover Dam in the 1930s
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Carol White (2)Director of Correspondence for George HW Bush
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UK Garter Principal King of Arms, born 1961. Various peerage and royal duties. As senior herald, proclaimed Charles III the new King to the world, and later, the titles of Elizabeth II as her coffin was lowered at her funeral service
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JFK - Assistant Special Counsel to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
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Intern assigned to the surgery section of the Emergency Room at Parkland Memorial in '63 , Martin helped to save President Kennedy's life
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Born November 1, 1953, American video game designer and programmer: Blackjack, Star Ship
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Winner of the Largest Powerball Jackpot Ever 300 Million!
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Lawyer shot by Dick Cheney
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10 year old witness to the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Son of an airstation employee, he was about 100 yards away, so close the paint on his family's car blistered from the heat
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Spy/Hot wars/cold wars & a few sub-war dust-ups/Served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the White House
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Was standing at the corner of Cedar Springs Rd. and Harwood St . to watch President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov . 22 , 1963
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(Born 10 April 1916) was a German chief engineer on a U-boat in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was born in Kiel.
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JFK - NBC cameraman riding in Camera Car 1, (10th car in Kennedy's motorcade); as the shots fell, he jumped from the car in front of the TSBD and ran towards the assassination scene while fiming, he himself ending up in many famous photos
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One of the news cameramen you see running in Malcolm Couch's film, shot this film as he jumped from one of the camera cars following the limo and ran towards the grassy knoll at the JFK assassination
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US Army WWII veteran, born 1919. CCC member, 1938-40, and made an Army supply sargeant thanks to his CCC experience for WWII's Saipan battle
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Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, Nobel for Peace - 1986
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Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer
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whistle blower,told truth about tobacco companies. movie The Insider
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Supercentenarian/Born: 02/09/1898
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WWII: Sailor B.C. Wilborn manned an anti-aircraft gun during the attack upon Pearl Harbor; later surviving amultiple Kamikate attack at the USS Columbia on 6 January 1945 when he earned a Purple Heart; Race Horse Owner
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Dennis Bryan Harvey 'Dick' Wildish CB (born 24 December 1914) is a retired vice admiral in the Royal Navy. He was born in Kent and is the son of Rear Admiral Sir Henry William Wildish, who also served in the Royal Navy
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Oxford mathematician, proved Fermat's Last Theorem
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Retired Secret Service For JFK/Kennedy Detail
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Former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda. In 1994, he was the only American who chose to remain in the country after the genocide began/Saved about 400 people from Gisimba Orphanage
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JFK - Patrolman with the Dallas Police Department in 1963, Wilkins was involved in the initial search of the TSBD. He was among those who first discovered the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in the northwest corner of the sixth floor
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08/30/1901-09/08/1981 American Postage Stamp made from his image/Prominent civil rights activist from the 1930s-1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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One of the oldest people in England (Born: 1908) Recently celebrated her 109th birthday. Also one of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK and met King George V. She lives in Hethersett, Norfolk, England
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One of two of Holocaust last living survivors of Nazi death camp Treblinka/Estimated that between 800.000 and 1.2million prisoners were taken to Treblinka/Lives in Israel
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Author/Assistant Council Warren Commission
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Tryst with Bill Clinton/Author
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WWII Veteran; Marine - Tank Driver; Iwo Jima
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Clayton 'Claytie' Williams, Jr. (b. 10/8/1931), businessman from Midland, Texas, was unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee 1990 against Democratic State Treasurer Ann Richards even though Williams initially led in opinion polls by 20 points
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Survivor of the Winecoff hotel fire on December 7, 1946
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An intern at Parkland Hospital in '63 , Williams had contact with Jackie Kennedy outside Trauma Room One and two days later assisted in the surgery of Lee Harvey Oswald
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Jonestown massacre survivor who fled the The People's Temple Agricultural Project a year before the massacre took place in 1978/Former member of Jim Jones Cult In Guyana
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2009 Nobel Prize winner for Economics
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Bill Willis (2) Drummer for Tami True AKA Nancy Myers at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club along the time of the JFK assassination/Willis was interviewed by two FBI agents Rawling and Hardin shortly after the assassination
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Eyewitness & Photographer at JFK Shooting
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Born 1953, was a close witness during the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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WWII veteran, army medic at Guam and Okinawa. Worked with MOH Desmond Doss, of 'Hacksaw Ridge' note, at Okinawa
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X-ray tech. school intern at Parkland on Nov. 22 , 1963 and saw Pres. Kennedy admitted to the hospital
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2nd Oldest Person in the World/Born :1890 Deceased 2006
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Ferguson, MO Police Dept Officer
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David Wilson (11)Great-nephew of Robert Falcon Scott's chief of scientific staff, Dr Edward Wilson
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Supercentenarian (1898-2009). One of the last surviving woman voters of the 1920 open election
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D-Day Survivor
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Jonestown Massacre Survivor//Son of Leslie Wagner Wilson
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Signer of the declation of independence/ the us constitution, appoint on the 1st supreme court by george washington, died in 1798
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Jonestown Massacre Survivor/Author Slavery of Faith: The untold story of the Peoples Temple from the eyes of a thirteen year old, her escape from Jonestown at 20 and life 30 years later
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LAPD Officer involved in the Rodney King beating
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Last witness to the world record breaking run of steam locomotive Mallard that was achieved on 3 July 1938. He lives in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England. A.K.A Bill Windsor or William Windsor
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JFK - Member of the Fort Worth Polytechnic High School Marching 100 Band that can be seen in photographs of the Kennedy motorcade through Fort Worth, 22 November 1963. The President stopped the motorcade to salute Jerry and the band
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One of the two women who as teenagers were the focus of the activity during the Enfield Haunting. She is now 49 and lives in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, UK. Formerly known as Janet Hodgson. Now the subject of the film 'The Conjuring 2'
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US Meteorologist (1931-2023) Creator of the 'Heat index' and HIndenburg witness. Heard the explosion near his house as a 5 year old boy, drove with his grandfather to find the smoking ship in flames on the ground
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British Stockbroker Who Was Britains Version Of Schindler Of Schindler's List Born: 05/19/1909
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American jurist (1905 - 99). Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during the 1950s and 1960s, deciding many landmark civil rights cases
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On April 15, 1964, Gail Wise a 22 year old third grade teacher purchased the first Ford Mustang 2 days before it was supposed to be sold to the public
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Holocaust Survivor ill & emaciated when heard Soldiers marching toward Auschwitz. 10-year-old Slovakian Jew assumed German troops coming to get her but it was Russian Soldiers coming to free her/May live in JERUSALEM/guide at Yad Vashem
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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.)
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Former Dallas Mayor/helped federal agents prepare JFK's Dallas security for the next month's visit. Covered the presidential motorcade, played a double role at the president's aborted luncheon, encountered Jack Ruby day before Oswald shot
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John Wiseman (2)A Deputy Sheriff in the Dallas Co. Sheriff's Dept . , John was standing on Main St. when President Kennedy's motorcade went by and after shots were fired he helped search the TSBD
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Holocaust Survivor Auschwitz incarcerated for 3 years, saved life by singing to Nazi SS. Composed 2 songs 1 song in Polish, ?Oswiecim? (Auschwitz) other Yiddish, Dos Vaise Haizele (Little White House In Woods) on display Holocaust Museum DC
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Helped with the rescue of the 2 whales in the movie The Big Miracle
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Known as the 'Umbrella Man'. Was present at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 11-22-63
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US Supercentenarian, born Sept 27, 1908
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Former Head of the IMF
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Hitler's Food Taster. Lives in West Berlin Born: 1917
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One of the last survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history
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Perennial political candidate. Challenged president Obama for the 2012 Democratic Party nomination
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Navy Seal recovery team, first to grab the Apollo 11 capsule and attach anchor cables and a flotation device before the astronauts emerged. Later served in Vietnam, battled addictions, and became a preacher
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State Trooper with the Texas Highway Patrol , Max was stationed at Dallas Trade Mart for Pres. Luncheon . Later assigned guard duty for Gov. Connolly at Parkland
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Terry Wood (2)Was at Dallas Love Field for President, Kennedy's arrival in 1963 and then was near TSBD at time of shooting . Later anchor at KUTV
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The oldest person in the United Kingdom, born in 1899
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist for Washington Post, uncovered Watergate scandal with fellow Post journalist Carl Bernstein
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Roger Woodward (2)Roger Woodward is the only person to go over Niagara Falls without a barrel and survive. After a boat he was in capsized, the seven year old, wearing only a life jacket and a bathing suit, went over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and lived
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Last living (confirmed and verified) Civil War veteran (1850-1956). Served in the Union Army as a drummer boy in a Minnesota regiment. 3 others claiming to be Confederate vets who lived passed him were later found to most likely be false claims
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Pioneer in the Commercial Aviation Industry/ Wordlaw is one of approximately 25 black female pilots flying for a major airline in the U.S. today/Featured in the film, 'The Women's List'
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British born Army officer and descendant of Sir Ernest Shackleton's skipper Frank Worsley. Lives in Hereford, UK
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Last survivor of the "General Slocum" ship disaster of June 15, 1904
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Jack Wright (3) Helped build the St. Louis gateway arch
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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
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The cousin of Emmett Till who witnessed his kidnapping and the last one to see him alive
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Wrongfully convicted As Drug Kingpin. Inspiration for 50 Cent-Produced Drama 'For Life' based on Wright's life
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Secret Service Agent who did advance work in Ft. Worth for President Kennedy's visit and later provided security for Marina Oswald
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//francine marie stepp//(stillwater oklahoma murder)
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Won 2014 West Virginia Golden Horseshoe Award
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Nobel peace laureate 1996
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One of four surviving farmers who discovered the Terra Cotta Army in 1974
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Uday Hussein's Body Double; Basis of movie 'The Devil's Double' based off his Book
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One of the oldest people in the world. Lives in Japan. Born 1895
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Survived both the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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31st oldest person in the world born 1894 lives in Japan
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One of Seven Farmers who discovered the Terra Cotta Army
