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JFK - the Texas state trooper who guarded and drove Vice President Lyndon Johnson in the presidintial motercade on November 22, 1963 the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
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CBS Radio News Anchor announced on radio the death of President Kennedy
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Detroit's First Female Deputy Police Chief during 1967 Detroit Rebellion/Lives in Detroit
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He took the photo of lee harvey oswald being shot by jack ruby
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Great Granddaughter Of Theodore Roosevelt
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GBE, CB, (27 September 1899 - 24 April 1993), Military Assistant Secretary to Winston Churchill's war cabinet and later a distinguished broadcasting executive, serving as the Director-General of the BBC from 1952-1960
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Holocaust Survivor/Lecturer/Author/Was sent to the camp Ostroweic and subsequently transported to Auschwitz (Poland), Birkenau (Poland) & Mathausen-Gusen II (Austria). Americans liberated him from Mathausen-Gusen II on May 5, 1945
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Belgian Roman Catholic Biship Born 1909
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age four time of fire
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Jeffrey Jamar: retired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge (SAC), who was in charge of an FBI squad in the 1993 Waco siege. Jamar retired from the FBI in December 1994 after 25 years in service
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Chuck James (2)Great Grandson of Jesse James
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Jeremiah James (2)Great Great Grandson Of Jesse James
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Tosh.o (Teacher/model who posed in Hustler magazine)
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WWII: Chief of Pharmacy Service with the Flying Tigers, 14th U.S. Army Air Forces. 95th Stationary Field Hospital in Kunming, the capital of the Hunan Province
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Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Had been working in sales for several American businesses and some government interests as a translator. Two days after his escape with just the clothes on his back, the Communists took over
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Second special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. He was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, soon after the Saturday Night Massacre of October 19-20, 1973, that resulted in the dismissal of his predecessor, Archibald Cox
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Pilot in World War I and as an operations officer in World War II as well as commanding Officer of the 446th Bomb Group at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth/Participated in drafting the original Civil Air regulations
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Civil Rights Movement/Political and civic leader and the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous British civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards. He is a direct descendant of Brunel and president of The Brunel Museum
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JFK - Jefferies filmed 39 seconds of the Dallas motorcade in (at that time) great quality, his film stopping ca. 90 seconds before the assassination
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One of the last known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. She is now 99 years old and lives in a care center in Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
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JFK - Born 1943; one of the two Navy corps man present at the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy at the Bethesda Navy Hospital
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Ron Jenkins (2)
Working under the name ' Ron McAlister ' , he was a reporter for KBOX Radio in ' 63 . He covered the scene at Parkland Hospital and in '64 the Ruby trial -
A news editor for KBOX radio in Dallas , Ronald saw Jack Ruby just outside Capt. Fritz's office where Oswald was being interrogated on Nov.23 , 1963
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Witness of first hydrogen bomb test: 'Ivy Mike' (Operation Ivy, 10.4 megatonnes of TNT) - October 31, 1952 19:14:59
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WW2 at D-Day/Enlisting Army on 4/1/1943/Sergeant 626th Engineer Light Equip. Co., JOB moving, bulldozing or rebuilding anything & everything, from small pillboxes to entire towns/Meritorious Unit Award/ Philippine Liberation Service Ribbon
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Real-life story inspired the film North Country
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Chief psychologist at Dallas Veterans Hospital in 1963, Filmed JFK motorcade at exit of Dallas Love Field & later captured rare color scenes of the Trade Mart building and marquee from Stemmons Freeway. Donated film to Sixth Floor Museum
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Centgenarian from Loma Linda Ca.on CNN
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New York Port Authority Police Officer, World Trade Center Attack / 9-11 Survivor. Subject of the movie World Trade Center
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Orderly who helped transport Governor Connolly to the OR on Nov.22 , 1963
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Attended the grand opening of the De La Warr Pavilion building in 1935. The Art Deco building is located on the seafront at Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, UK. Designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn. He is now 87 and lives in the UK
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Drove follow-up car during the JFK assassination
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Centenarian (1896-2001). US WWI veteran. Drove a hospital truck in France during his service, and contracted/survived the 1918 Flu epidemic
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Bill Johnson (5)Member of the DPD Bill was among the first to greet Pres. Kennedy on his arrival at Dallas Love Field on Nov. 22 , 1963 . His assignment was to secure perimeter of Air Force One
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Bruce Johnson (3)JFK US Army/marched in the funeral procession for President John F. Kennedy on Monday, November 25, 1963. An employee of the Internal Revenue Service during the Eisenhower to Clinton administrations
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A northern Illinois resident recognized as the oldest man in the U.S. 1904-2014
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Son of Bluesman Robert Johnson
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One of the 3 NY Firefighters who raised the flag at Ground Zero
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Born 1896 #72 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Oregon.
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Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge worker, born in 1925. Worked as a 'Calutron Girl' during WWII, unknowingly helping to produce Uranium for the Hiroshima bomb
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Henry Johnson (3) English World War 1-Era Veteran served in Merchant Navy. Lives in England. Born: 11/19/1902
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'Hidden Figure' African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the US aeronautics and space programs with early application of digital electronic computers at NASA
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Part of Pan Am Press Plane crew for President Kennedy's trip to Texas in 1963
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Daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson
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WWII SPAR, a female veteran in the US Coast Guard. Born in 1914
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Journalist and Vegas PR career, born 1933. Korean War vet, guarded MacArthur. Raced cars, friends with James Dean. Danced in 'Jailhouse Rock' title number with Elvis, who became a friend since they shared an interest in martial arts
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Last surviving inhabitant of St Kildan Island, Scotland that was evacuated in 1930, 84 years ago. She is now 91 and lives in a nursing home in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
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United States Air Aces
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First Miss Alaska (1958) in the Miss America Pageant, born 1939. First Alaska contestant after Alaska became a state
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Dan Johnston (2) Landmark Case: Johnston won the US Landmark Case Tinker v Des Moines (1969) as a 30 year old lawyer, just one year out of law school
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Oldest US Citizen
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Photographer Washington Post, Johnston was working for Austin bureau of United Press International in 1963. In basement of Dallas police headquarters, captured image of Lee Harvey Oswald approximately one second before he was fatally shot
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WWII veteran, participated in D-Day (748th Tank Battalion). Also a participant in FDR's New Deal Programs, the CCC and the WPA
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Only surviving firefighter from his battalion on 9/11. Pulled from rubble in the aftermath
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One of the survivors on Schindler's List. Known as Helena Hirsch Rosenzwerg
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American held hostage during the Iran Hostage crisis 1979
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Auction Hunters show
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Apollo 11: Pilot of the helicopter (#66) that recovered Neil Armstrong after Apollo 11 returned successfully
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One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana), the deadliest tornado in American history, which occurred on March 18, 1925
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Grace Jones (2) English supercentenarian and the second oldest person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1899
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Ken Jones (4)First canadian born mountain guide
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JFK - Met Kennedy on April 29, 1960 while he was campaigning in Jackson and Bartholomew counties and shook his hand
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Tryst with Bill Clinton during Presidency
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U.S. Secret Service agent assigned White House detail during Kennedy years/Guarded Kennedys at Hyannis Port during the summer of 1963. At the time of the assassination, he was guarding young John F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C. In 1964
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Doctor who treated John F. Kennedy in his final moments at Parkland Hospital
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Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured at Oneui on July 26, 1950, marched 40 miles south of the Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men
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Stephan Jones (2)Son of Jim Jones, Jonestown Masacre
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Politician & leader of the Civil Rights movement. 1st African American elected to Senate & 1st southern black female elected to the US House of Representatives. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Worlds First Sex Change in 1952.
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One of the last witnesses to The Battle of Cable Street, London in 1936. (Born: 1922) She is now 94 and lives in Loughton, Essex
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Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. Born March 11, 1923
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Owner of a restaurant (Jim's Grill) near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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Stephen Joyce (2) Grandson of James Joyce, the famous Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He lives in the French town of La Flotte, on the Île de Ré, off the Atla
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hitlers last secretary
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Supercentenarian, born on 10 June 1906. Longest-lived validated person in the history of Poland, currently the 28th oldest validated person of all time, 3rd oldest living person, and the last known person born in 1906
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Apollo structural engineer who began work on the program in 1963. He was one of five engineers in charge of constructing the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), which still holds the record for largest single story building
