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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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