US Centenarian, born 1913. She, her dad, 3 siblings contracted the 1918 Flu, nursed to health by her mother, who then also got it and died days later. Became a teacher, but said to be touched by the Flu and her lost mother every day since
American Female Red Cross Donut Dolly. Vietnam War. She Said; 'Whenever Anybody Was Going Back Home They'd Play Leaving On A Jet Plane'. They Listened To Soldiers. Played Games And Records At The Base Rec Centres. Their Job Was To Lift The Guys Spirits
Geneticist, molecular engineer/Successfully copied woolly mammoth genes into the genome of an Asian elephant/Will have reproduced the extinct Wooly Mammoth in the next three years
Jamaican - Born American Lawyer And Jurist. 'Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia' (2014- )Judge Over Criminal Trial Of Donald Trump Over Attempts To Overturn Result Of 2020 Presidential Election
Retired Lt. Gen. US Air Force, Director of Nat. Intelligence. Served director of Defense Intel Agency from 92-95. 1st Director Defense Intel within Office of Director of National Intelligence & Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
A Detective in the Dallas Police Force , Barnard was one of the policemen who guarded Jack Ruby immediately following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald
Survivor of 9/11 - a volunteer firefighter for his floor and one of only four people in the South Tower to escape from a floor above the plane's impact
American Female Historic Figure - On 11/22/1963 - Downtown Fort Worth - Aged 10. President Kennedy Stood Before Her, Her Sister and Mother. They Got To Shake His Hand, And The Hands Of The Governor And The Vice President Before He Went To Dallas
12/9/1889-12/13/1963 US federal judge, sitting on the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 1939-1963/1/5/1939 was nominated by President Franklin D Roosevelt to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The world's oldest travelling preacher, born in 1903. He witnessed the 1921 race riot in Tulsa and worked for movie stars Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin. He also worked at Joan Crawfords home as a butler. He is now 108 and lives in the USA
A member of the Dallas Police Dept. , Richard participated in the police line-up at which Helen Markham identified Oswald as the man who shot Officer Tippitt . Clark was # 3 in the line-up
Met President John Kennedy 11/22/1963. Standing In Front Of Barricade, Aged 7, Downtown Fort Worth School With Her Sister And Mother. They Got To Shake His Hand, And Also The Governor And Vice President Before He Went To Dallas. May 1956 Fort Worth, Texas
American Former Female Historic Person - On 11/22/1963 At Fort Worth. Stood In Front Of Barricade And President John Kennedy Shook Hands With Her And Her 2 Daughters. They Also Shook Hands Of The Governor And The Vice President Before He Went To Dallas
Author 'A Spy for All Seasons'/senior operations officer for USA's CIA. Best known in mid-1980s for role in the Contra end of Iran-Contra Affair. Reputed planner of the clandestine mining of Nicaragua's harbors during Nicaraguan Revolution
American Former Female Historic Person. Billie Stood On The North Sidewalk Of Elm Street, In Front Of The Pergola, To Watch The Motorcade Of President John Kennedy And Just Shortly After Passing Her She Heard A Shot
As a model, Mr. Clune was one of the highest paid models of the 50s, making $1 per minute. He most famously modeled for Marlboro as a Marlboro Man, but also modeled for Winston, Vogue, That Man fragrance, and many others
01/04/1920-04/27/1996 Director of Central Intelligence (DCI/C.I.A.) from September 1973 to January 1976/During World War II Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services
June 19, 1904 - August 15, 1985, American screenwriter/Joined the American Communist Party. He became one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted. Between 1932 & 1947 Cole wrote more than forty screenplays that were made into motion pictures
Washington, DC, police officer assigned to escort King onto the podium for the 'I have a dream' speech in Washington (March on Washington, August 1963), seen in the speech and in photographs behind Dr. King
Civil Rights figure, the 'fifth' Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing victim. The only one of the 5 girls to survive the blast in the basement. Her sister was one of the 4 killed. She sustained serious injuries, including losing an eye and carrying glass
African Americans' rights activist, Pioneer of the African American civil rights movement; Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, 15-year-old Colvin refused a bus driver?s orders to relinquish her seat and was arrested
WWII - Mine Platoon of the Anti-Tank Company, 69th Infantry Division, 271st Regiment. First combat at the 'Siegfried Line' in February 1945; crossed the Rhine on March 27, 1945; arrived at the KZ Buchenwald one day after its liberation
American lawyer who served as the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 2013 until May 2017. Comey has been a registered Republican for most of his life, but is now independent/Fired by Donald Trump
A 48-year employee of the John Sexton Food Company, Conine worked in their warehouse at 411 Elm Street - later known as the Texas School Book Depository - for nine years. He shared his knowledge about the building's history and layout
Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
WWII Rosie the Riveter, born 1923. One of 17 siblings, sent by her father to aid the war effort by working at the Curtiss-Wright aviation company in Buffalo, NY. Was a 'bucker', a final step in the riveting process
WW2 OSS Officer/Technical adviser to the film 'OSS' (1946)/He was trained at the famous 'Camp X' in Canada/As a spy he once lived with an Italian family just 450 yards from a German base
Eastman Kodak engineer, worked on the camera team for NASA's Lunar Orbiters that photographed the moon, and mapped landing spots for the Apollo missions. Led to the first photo of the earth from the moon, a B&W grainy one, in 1966
Last witness to see 'The Humber Monster', the East Coast's answer to the Loch Ness Monster. He saw it himself as a small child before WW2. The last sighting of it was 80 years ago. Now 86 and lives in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, UK
JFK - U.S. Secret Service agent from 1961 to 1977. Served on the details of President Kennedy, President Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He was part of the advance team for San Antonio on President Kennedy?s trip to Texas
One of the first black students admitted to Harry Harding HS in Charlotte, NC. Parents made her withdraw due to harassment; school has since been named in her honor
Dallas Police patrolman , he escorted officials to Dallas Trade Mart the morning of Nov. 22 . Following assassination he was assigned guard duty at TSBD and police headquarters
German-born, American physicist (1924- ). Built circuits for the Manhattan Project. One of the few surviving witnesses of the Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion
Intelligence Officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety, present at the tower during Charles Whitman's school shooting on August 1, 1966 at the University of Texas
Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
American artist (1896-1982). Muralist, apprenticed with his father Kenyan Cox, also a painter. Hired in 1953 to add new murals to the US Capitol, including ones of the Wright Brothers and the moon landing. Worked on them until his death
US Marine aviator, born 1936. Served as the recovery helicopter co-pilot for some early NASA Mercury flights, including first US man in space Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Ham the Chimp before the manned missions. Served in Vietnam also
Paul was the Director of Maintenance at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963 and had several special duties to perform due to President Kennedy's arrival after the assassination
'Jail clerk Dallas Police Department time of the assassination, Started 1st Crime Scene Search Unit at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department in 1970 and has since become a veteran crime scene investigator and law enforcement consultant'
U.S. Air Force brigadier general (Ret.)& author 'Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride As Air Force One Pilot', White House Aide, & Personal Confidant/Military aide & chief Air Force One pilot under President Lyndon B. Johnson
British diplomat born 1921, was kidnapped by the FLQ militants during the October Crisis of October 1970 in Canada, married to late actress/singer/dancer Peggy Ryan
Studio supervisor at independent station KTVT-TV in '63, he operated the camera during the Fort Worth breakfast speech , at Parkland , and the funeral service for Officer Tippitt
Coordinator for Counterterrorism at Department of State with rank of Ambassador-at-Large on August 2, 2005. Ambassador Crumpton joined Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and served as an operations officer both at headquarters and abroad
Police officer was chief of Dallas Police Department from 1960-1966. Chief time of assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, & murder of his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, while in police custody 2 days later
Structural engineer, born 1937. One of the last living engineers of the Seattle Space Needle's design. Project lead for the foundation and the top house
Was born in 1941. He joined the United States Navy and eventually became a radiology technician at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963, his body was taken to Bethesda and Custer
Author and President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Was a staff member of the US National Security Council (NSC) under Bill Clinton and a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama
Last survivor of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre of coal mining families, which led to Congress enacting new labor laws and an 8 hour day. Born in 1914 and a baby during the event, her family was split up, and she was sent off to live in orphanages
Vietnam War 1975/Escaped during the Fall of Saigon/Was passenger violently forced without provocation from a United Airlines flight.and suffered a significant concussion, a broken nose, a sinus injury and lost two front teeth
Iran Hostage Crisis/3rd Secretary of U.S. Mission (CIA officer)/Ph.D., is a professor of government and foreign policy at Armstrong Atlantic State University
French Egyptologist and scientist who published a theory stating that the stones of the Great Pyramid where not carved stone but mostly a form of limestone concrete
WWII: Survivor (69th Medium Regt, Royal Artillery) of the Wormhoudt, France, massacre (May 1940). One of few survivors when German SS ambushed a convoy; most of the 50 men died, while he & 2 friends escaped. Later at El Alamein, Monte Cassino and France
Civil Rights Movement/Freedom Rider/Veteran of state's sit-in movement to end lunch counter segregation/Attempted to use white restrooms, were arrested for disorderly conduct & sentenced within the hour to a $200 fine & 60-day jail term
US Diplomat (1878-1944). Asst Treasurer, Under-Sec. of State under Woodrow Wilson. Financial advisor at the WWI Paris Peace Conference. 1932 Time cover subject
Radio newsman, covered JFK White House. Riding in the Dallas motorcade when Kennedy shot, covered the press conference at Parkland Hospital, and picked as one of the few reporters to cover the LBJ oath on Air Force One. He is seen, head down, in the iconi
Oklahoma dust bowl survivor, born 1924, interviewed for Ken Burns' documentary. WWII 'Rosie' at Boeing Aircraft working on B-29s. Career in journalism and teaching
Author of A Garden of Thorns, a memoir about surviving Nazi occupation in France including becoming a junior agent performing reconnaissance missions for the French resistance at age 13
JFK Aid & alleged mistress/83-year-old psychotherapist and grandmother at 09/22/2021/Descriptions of their affair were previously published in Vanity Fair editor Sally Bedell Smith's 2004 book about the Kennedys, Grace and Power
Publisher Dallas Morning News/Harbored animosity against JFK, told JFK in White House he was not ?the man on horseback? the country was searching for rather a wimp ?on Caroline?s tricycle.? Plaza where JFK was shot named after his family
JFK - Jerry Dealey, Dallas historian/assassination researcher, is of the Dealey family who gave the Plaza its name. Dealey Plaza was named after the founder of the Dallas Morning News, George B. Dealey, Jerry's great grandfather's brother
JFK - Secret Service; WHD (White House Detail) for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Advance Agent for Houston (Nov. 21, 1963, not in Dallas (sent home after Houston)
Spanish centenarian, born 1913. One of the last known Spanish citizens to have had the 1918 'Spanish Flu'. In 2020, she survived Covid-19 at the age of 106
Supreme Court: One of the three officers on scene in the 4th amendment landmark case Mapp v. Ohio (1961), where he participated in the raid on Ms. Mapp's residence
Radio Announcer, did KLFI 12 Noon newscast the hour describing the President's arrival at Love Field/among journalists in the police station basement when Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald
Hollywood Celebrity - A woman who used to walk around Hollywood with heavy make-up applied to her face. It was this look (and hair style) that Bette Davis chose to use for her make-up in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?; stage star born in Hodgenville, KY
Former FBI criminal profiler/Was lead profiler in San Francisco & worked on the Unabomber case/Currently hosts Investigation Discovery programs Deadly Women and Facing Evil. Often compared to Clarice Starling from The Silence of the Lambs
Russian born women who claims to possess a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see organs and tissues, and thereby make medical diagnoses. She has appeared on television shows and performed readings in Russia
An employee at a Dallas Stock Exchange Company , Denny watched the Kennedy motorcade on Main St. . Her office closed early when the stock exchange shut down following the assassination
WW2 Vet. Survived the sinking of the USS Atlanta, and involved in Battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Knew and regularly saw JFK while working as a Navy radioman. During Japanese surrender ceremony, transmitted the news to the worl
WWII army vet, assigned to clean-up/odd job duties at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos base. Witness to the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
Supreme Court: One of the three officers present at the raid on Ms. Mapp's residence, which resulted in the landmark case Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Considered a 4th amendment victory
Former Correctional Officer Alcatraz Prison from 1950 to 1958. Guarding such noted prisoners as Robert the Birdman of Alcatraz Stroud, Machine - Gun Kelly, & former Public Enemy #1 Alvin Creepy Karpis
Author;'Just A Kid, A Guard at the Nuremberg Trials' 18 years old when drafted in 1944, into infantry. Found himself standing guard over Nazi war criminals, & watched as atrocities were described in detail throughout the Nuremberg Trails
British actor and performer known in the United Kingdom and the United States for his one man shows based on the novels of his great great grandfather, Charles Dickens
Chief photographer for the Dallas Morning News in 1963, Dillard was riding in a press car in the presidential motorcade and took photos of the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the shooting
Emmett Till case. Carolyn Donham, the white woman at the center of the case, admitted she lied about the events leading up to the murder. Donham told police in 1955 that Till (14) whistled at her and tried to grab her inside a store in Money, Miss
Altar boy at John F Kennedy's funeral mass in Washington DC. Father was a doctor who was a Harvard classmate of JFK and treated John & Jackie before the Presidency
An American invertebrate paleontologist who became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1907-1927)
Alabama State Trooper; while protecting George Wallace on the campaign trail, he was unintentionally shot in the stomach by Arthur Bremer during the attempt on Wallace's life
An employee of TSBD , Dougherty saw Lee Harvey Oswald arrive on the morning of the assassination . He told the Warren Commission that he didn't think Oswald was carrying anything
As a 12 yr. old watched Pres. Kennedy's motorcade on Harwood St. in Dallas and then heard the shots in Dealey Plaza , friends with Officer J.D. Tippet's son
Donald Trump's lawyer/Special Counsel to the Commissioner of Baseball and author of a report that led to the banning of Major League Baseball player Pete Rose
Author 'Life On a Short Fuse' /War or Conflict
Korean War, 1950-1953 Air Force/Korea/Vietnam War, 1961-1975/Lieutenant Colonel/Served as a Fighter Pilot; a Command Pilot; a Test Pilot; and an Instructor Pilot
Victoria Manalo Draves, the first woman to win two gold medals in diving in the same Olympics ? in the three-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform competitions in London in 1948 and the first Asian American to win an Olympic medal
Motor Machinst's Mate 2nd Class Edmund T. Drewitch served aboard PT 109 along with then Lt (jg) and future President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy; due to injury, he was not aboard PT-109 when it was sunk
Newsman for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covered many 20th century events. Was in the JFK motorcade when Kennedy was killed and later witnessed Oswald being shot. In the 70s, he covered Cambodia and was held as a civilian prisoner of war for a time, and w
Robert was a sergeant in the Dallas Police Dept .He was stationed at the Trade Mart on Nov. 22 '63 . Later he stood guard outside Trauma Room #1 as JFK was treated
Former blackjack player with MIT Blackjack Team/Played with Strategic Investments & one of founding members & team leaders on Amphibian Investments exploits chronicled in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas & referred to in Bringing Down the House
First surgeon to receive President John F. Kennedy after being shot and taken to Dallas Parkland Hospital, & attended to the wounds of then Texas Governor John Connally, who was shot at the same time John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail during the Kennedy years, Duncan served as the advance agent for Fort Worth during the Texas visit in November 1963
Supercentenarian Born 1907 Went to school at Bath Consolodated School. Was at home sick when the Bath School Massacre took place in 1927, which killed 38 children and 6 adults
Centenarian (1899-2001). US WWI Army veteran, served in the ambulance corps in France. Later became a freelance writer, writing books in the 1920s, including WWI experiences. One of 8 WWI vets profiled by Life magazine on the 80th anniversary in 1998
Author - 'Caught in the Act', The true story of his life. He was caught in the '80's helping people escape from East to West Germany. He spent several years in a Prison in Budapest
Former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. Now an attorney in Miami.
Turkish Air Force Captain who in 1959, took the first photograph of a strange formation on Mount Ararat, believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark. He was still alive in 2007, not sure if he still is now
Engineer 1st working American gasoline-powered car & co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. In Springfield Charles & his brother Frank produced & road-tested America's 1st gasoline-powered car
One of Russia's most notable specialists in the investigation of unidentified flying objects. He works as a coordinator at The Science and Research center Kosmopoisk (Search of Cosmos), Russia
Gunnery Sgt/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
Businessman; a former financier involved business scandal that sent him to jail for fraud multiple times & complicated by ties to future President LBJ/Alleged in 80s had inside knowledge that LBJ was involved in assassination of Kennedy
Landmark Case: Eckhardt was one of the students litigants in Tinker v Des Moines (1969), which defined the Constitutional Rights of students in US public school
Author of the book 'A Journey Between Souls - The Story of a Soldier and a Pharaoh' and long-time friend and confidante of the late Corporal Richard Adamson, one of the last survivors of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922
6 years old, saw JFK arrive Carswell Air Base on 11/21/1963/Interview with him ran in Star-Telegram next day. Audio-visual manager at St. Paul Hospital Dallas, coordinated w/Oliver Stone for film of JFK/Went to same school as Oswald/Shook hands with LBJ
Edwards watched the Kennedy motorcade on Nov.22 , '63 , from the southwest corner of Elm and Houston . His stated that he saw man leaning out of the TSBD transfixed on the triple underpass ten minutes before the shooting, born 2/4/43, Dallas
Was a spectator for President kennedy's motorcade in Dallas when he saw an individual up in the corner of the 6th floor of the TSBD crowded among boxes
Centenarian, one of the last women alive to vote in the open election of 1920. Also saw the Wright Brothers in a flight demo on her honeymoon in 1915 at the San Francisco Pan Pacific Expo. (1896-2002)
Counsel & Assistant to President for Domestic Affairs under President Nixon. Key figure in events leading to Watergate 1st break-in & the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice & perjury
Retired Italian journalist whose question at a government press conference in the former East Germany is said to have precipitated the end of the Berlin Wall;
is living in Madrid/Spain
Last witness to the Battle of Barrington. Born: 1928. The Battle of Barrington was a gunfight between federal agents and notorious gangster Baby Face Nelson, that took place on November 27, 1934. He was six years old at the time. Now 91
Author and holocaust survivor. Used the black-market skills he acquired in the Warsaw ghetto to make a fortune as a legitimate American importer-exporter and then used those millions to tell his story and support Holocaust-related education
69-year-old criminal lawyer Andrew Ekonomou, a man with a penchant for Medieval history has found himself at the center of President Donald Trump's legal team as it wrestles with the Mueller probe into collusion with Russia
First cousin and childhood playmate of Anne Frank and president of the Anne Frank Fonds, a Basle-based charity that owns and administers the rights to her diary
Ex-Pentagon UFO Whistle-blower, UFO researcher - Known for leaking the famous 2004 'Tic Tac UFO' US Airforce Video which has since been confirmed authentic
JFK - Former LULAC leader who met JFK on Nov. 21, 1963, at a LULAC gala at the Grand Ballroom, Rice Hotel, in Houston; was photographed as he is about to shake JFK's hand that night
Widow of a World War I veteran, one of about 2,000 still alive. She was born in 1910 oldest person in Hillsborough County, and one of the oldest in the country, ever to receive VA benefits
JFK - DPD sergeant in command of the motorcycle escort for Kennedy on 22 November 1963; one of the motorcycle officers leading the motorcade, seen in several famous photographs
Resident at Parkland Hospital in Dallas when JFK was shot and brought in. After Kennedy's body was removed, he was one of 3 people known to have salvaged a rose from Jackie Kennedy's bouquet left behind, which he has preserved in plastic Lucite
Dallas police patrolman in 1963, Elwonger was assigned to the entrance to Dallas Love Field and remained at his post from before Air Force One's arrival until after its departure later that afternoon with the newly sworn-in president
Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured Oneui on 7/26/1950, marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men/Recipient of the Purple Heart
Scientist/Entomologist/Author - Known for his authority on the History and Geological placement of insects most notably the 'Honey Bee', writer or over 300 papers and the book 'Evolution of the Insects'
Woman who was half of the blanketed couple who appeared on the iconic 1970 'Woodstock' album cover and on posters for the documentary film about the festival
Man who was half of the blanketed couple who appeared on the iconic 1970 'Woodstock' album cover and on posters for the documentary film about the festival
Husband of Susan Ershler, a professional public speaker. Co-author (with Susan Ershler) of Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits. IMG Partner AMGA Certified Alpine Guide
Author; Walled-In/ an eyewitness to President Kennedy?s historic speech in West Berlin on June 26, 1963?/Lives with husband Burch in San Diego California
American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974/His investigation in 1972 and 1973 of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation in 1974 of President Richard Nixon
Navajo Bougainville Code Talker/2nd All-Navajo Platoon 297/Stationed in Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima and other Pacific locations for just over two years
90-year-old Holocaust survivor, commemorates anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz with dance performance about her years in the concentration camp. Fahidi performed the dance, 'Sea Lavender or The Elation of Being,'. May live in Berlin
Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor and now 97 years old
American politician, business executive, & dignitary who served as head of the Democratic National Committee & as Postmaster General. Farley known as political 'kingmaker', & was responsible for FDR's rise to presidency
Former employee of ESL Incorporated, he stalked co-worker Laura Black. On February 16, 1988, he shot and killed seven people at ESL. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder. Portrayed by Richard Thomas in the movie I Can Make you Love Me
JFK - Dallas police officer. Was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the motorcade arrived, and he saw President Kennedy?s body. On Saturday, he guarded the Homicide and Robbery Bureau doorway at Dallas police headquarters. Acquaintance of Jack Ruby
Governor Arkansas 55-67. 1957 stand against desegregation of Little Rock School District during Little Rock Crisis/Ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School
Civil rights leader Walter E. Fauntroy, who served 20 years in Congress as Washington, D.C.â-?s non-voting delegate and chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, after helping Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plan the March on Washington
signer of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, was an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1958
Captured by Red Chinese during CIA - sponsored C-47 flight over mainland China during Korean War. POW nearly 2 decade battle of wills between the U.S. & China/He was released in December 1971. CIA awarded him the Distinguished Intelligence Cross
WWII: USS Navy. Crossed Atlantic from Boot Camp on The RMS Queen Mary; served on the HMS Ceres during D - Day, directing ships in and out at Omaha Beach
Col. Vietnam War/US Air Force, pilot/Pow six years/John McCain's cellmate two years/ His Air Force career flying the B-47 Stratojet, RB-66 and EB-66 Destroyer, T-38 Talon, and F-111 Aardvark aircraft
Last surviving prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945-46, at the Palace of Justice
Spy/also known as Anya Fermanov, is a Latvian-American television personality and alleged smuggler. While living in Texas, Fermanova allegedly smuggled night-vision equipment to her husband in Russia
Founding member of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Company and witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952. She was 21 at the time and is now 85
Civilian imprisoned for more than three years by the Japanese during WW2 as a child/Was living on the island of Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies during World War II when the Japanese invaded in 1942
Wrote a diary during the siege of Sarajevo- Often Called 'The Anne Frank Of Sarajevo'(Author Zlata's Diary)- well known peace and human rights activist
Is a centenarian, a British statistician, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society
Art Director at KRLD-TV in '63 , Charles processed film all over the world the weekend of the assassination . In '64 he was a sketch artist for the Jack Ruby trial
The only full-time Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff on horseback in '63 , Fisher was stationed outside Hotel Texas Nov.22 1963 . He met Pres. Kennedy who was photographed petting Fisher's horse
(March 6, 1887 - October 29, 1975) WW1 American aviation pioneer, industrialist and army officer. Fleet founded and led several corporations, including Consolidated Aircraft/Acting commanding officer of the 18th Aero Squadron, Training WW1
The only female employee for Transocean on rig Deepwater Horizon which sank in Gulf on April 22 causing largest oil spill in history of oil exploration/One of last people off of rig as her crew was responsible for trying to maintain the rig
Mayor of Dallas from 1976 to 1981, Folsom was a longtime real estate developer and served as president of the Dallas School Board during the racial integration of the 1960s
WWII veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He fought throughout Europe from October of 1944 in Alsace-Lorraine, ending near the Austrian Alps when the war ended
American writer. Won a Pulitzer in 1971 for her reporting on the life of Diana Oughton, a member of Weather Underground. Became the first woman to win a Pulitzer for National Reporting, and the youngest person ever to win any Pulitzer
JFK - The man who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work on Nov. 22, 1963, when Oswald took that package with him in Frazier's car that is assumed to have been the rifle that killed Kennedy; he was a co-worker of Oswald at the TSBD
WW2/From Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, member of the Women?s Royal Naval Service, Wrens. Worked on Colossus, world?s first digital electronic computer, which was developed at Bletchley but the existence of which was kept secret for decades
Teen witness to JFK assassination. Standing on Houston Street as limo passed by, running across the street as the shots were fired. He and a friend ran up into the railway area (leading some to think they had thrown firecrackers at the motorcade), then ba
British journalist, businessman and welfare adviser. He is a great grandson of Sigmund Freud, and son of Annette Krarup and Walter Freud. Sometimes known as Baron Freud
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, taken in Times Square - 'Crossroads Of The World'
COP/Most decorated detective in New York history/Author 'Street Justice: The Bronx' & 'Street Warrior'/Stationed at the South Bronx's notorious 41 Precinct, known by its nickname 'Fort Apache', Served during one of city?s most dire times: the 70s & 80s
One of the last witnesses to The Siege of Sidney Street in London on 2 January 1911. He was a a young teenager at the time and found himself caught up in the siege. Since he was a teenager in 1911, he's most likely deceased, 1970's or 1980's
(Born 8 February 1909) is a Spanish supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). He has been the oldest living man in the world since the death of Dumitru Comanescu, on 27 June 2020
9/11 first responder/fireman. Founder and director of the Patriot Group, a not-for-profit organization that specializes in assisting first responders in answering terrorism and disaster crisis emergencies
American game programmer who created two of the Atari 2600's biggest hits: the port of arcade game Missile Command and 1982's Demon Attack, which won Electronic Games' Game of the Year award
N LAPD criminologist, Dennis Fung's responsibilities related to the analysis of crime scene evidence. As DNA evidence became significant in the Simpson trial, Fung spent more time on the stand than any other trial witness, testifying for a total of 9 days
Former Corporal of the Canadian Forces, once held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at 2,430 metres (2,657 yd, 12.08 furlongs, or 1.51 miles)
Dallas social worker in 1963, Furnish saw the Kennedys arrive at Dallas Love Field Airport. Throughout the 1960s, she was locally active in the civil rights movement
A captain in the Dallas Police Dept . , Gangway was in charge of the DPD Special Service Bureau . He said that Oswald's description was broadcast following the shooting of JFK because he was missing from a ' cool call ' at the TSBD
Senior medical student at Methodist Hospital Dallas time of assassination. Participated in retrieval of bullet from body of Officer J.D. Tippit. Knew many of the doctors who treated both the President & Gov. Connally at Parkland Hospital
Born 1943. First African American student to enter enter Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration. 'An early inspiration' to Barack Obama
Spanish Civil war veteran (Born: 1918) Nationalist Army. Promoted to captain in 1942. Awarded four medals. Military historian, author, and teacher. Age: 98. Lives in Spain
Garner was on the fourth floor of the TSBD with co-workers Victoria Adams , Elsie Dorman and Sandra Styles . She claims the shots ' came from the west '
Congressional page of the 1940's, and one of the last few living witnesses to have seen FDR's Pearl Harbor 'Day of Infamy' speech before Congress on 12/8/41. Later in 1942, had lunch at the White House with the other pages and Eleanor Roosevelt, who then
Longtime Dallas businessman, Gatlin was working on the twelfth floor of the Mercantile Bank building in 1963 and provided vivid memories of the motorcade passing by on Main Street/Sixth Floor interviewee multiple times
Writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Author of The NYT bestseller, Bad Feminist. Editor for Gay Mag. Co-wrote 6 issues of a spin-off of Black Panther making her the 1st black woman to be a lead writer for Marvel
Served in World War II on the U.S.S. Borie (destroyer) and the U.S.S. Darter (submarine) Machinist in the engine room of this submarine, which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf involving 32 Japanese warships
Administrative Assistant at Parkland Hospital, helped coordinate media relations and family arrangements during the JFK and Oswald shootings. Spent time with Jack Ruby during his stay at Parkland in 1966
US WWII veteran, born 1918, served in the OSS in England, France, and behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany. Helped in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Anesthesiologist who attached the heart monitor to President John F. Kennedy in a Parkland's hospital emergency room and interviewed wounded Texas Gov. John Connally for surgery
Centenarian, probably the last living woman to have marched in a suffragette parade and one of the last early Girl Scouts (in 1914). Voted in the first open election of 1920, plus later became a charter member, and President of the Republican National Wom
One of only nine survivors from the sinking of The SS Athenia, that was the first casualty of WW2. The unarmed passenger liner was torpedoed by a U-boat just eight hours after war broke out. He is now 84 and lives in Canada
Author Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight. In 1965, as a college freshman, Answered MLK, Jr.'s call for students to come to the South after the attack on voting rights marchers in Selma on Bloody Sunday
Staff Sergeant, U.S Army, first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor