WWII - Nurse Recruiting Poster Girl of the most popular WWII Nurse Poster. President Franklin D Roosevelt took a liking of the poster and ordered to be a million copies printed. She is supposedly the last of the poster girls alive
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
American video game designer, programmer, and producer. He is best known for being the creator of early games from several different genres, including pioneering simulation game Utopia for Intellivision in 1981
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
Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Dalton KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and latterly became Secretary General of MENCAP and National Chairman of The Royal British Legion
NASA Test Pilot/One of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X-20 Dyna - Soar program
(born 9 July 1917), a Polish orphan from the town of Otwock, was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1998, for saving the lives of Polish Jews during the Holocaust
Original "Operation Paperclip" Wernhervon Braun rocket scientist team born August 5, 1912. Deputy Manager of Saturn rocket program, rec'd NASA Exceptional Service Medal for successfully initiating development of the Saturn V rocket
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
Mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She is also featured in the book Hidden Figures
WWII: Signalman aboard the S.S. Hawkins Fudske, a cargo ship that made 2 round trips to Archangle and Murmansk, Russia.Rcvd the Medal of Ushakov from Russia for his wartime efforts
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
CEO of the 2016 and 2008 Democratic National Convention Committees, and the chief of staff to Howard Dean, the former chairman of the DNC. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the US Department of Labor
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
First pilot in the USA to fly a turbo-prop-powered airplane - Convair?s experimental XP-81 fighter, developed for the United States Air Force in 1945. He also flight tested the following aircraft types:- BT-13,BT-15,P-66,XP-54,XP-81,XA-41,A-31 and A-35
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
Born March 27th 1918, served in the US Navy during World War 2, survived attack on Pearl Harbor. Later became an attorney, and then a State Senator for Louisiana from 1956-1980
WWII: PTO. Battles of New Britain, New Guinea, Peleliu and Okinawa. Platoon sergeant of his unit, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Purple Heart, Sharp Shooter Medal
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
Colonel (born 13 May 1939) retired US Army officer received Medal of Honor 3 March 2023 for actions on 18 July 1965 during Vietnam War. Twice previously nominated for MOH, but both times the paperwork relating to his nomination disappeared
WWII: African American/6888 Central Postal Battalion (Birmingham, UK) in US Army, known as Six Triple Eight. In just three months, Davis and her unit processed 17 million pieces of mail
Emergency physician and NYT best selling author of The Pact (winner of 'The Books for Better Life' Award) and The Stuff. Appeared on numerous talk and radio shows including Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Today Show, The View, Anderson Cooper 360 & NPR
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
WWII: Radio Operator, 505th Parachute Regiment (PIR), 82nd Airborne Division (AD). Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, but rejoined the 505th on Rhine River. He met the Russians at Elbe River
US WWII Army vet, born 1923. Trained as electrical engineer and radio operator, attached to MacArthur's HQ for a time. Born in N. Dakota, raised in Minnesota, experienced Dust Bowl storms in his youth. Retired district judge
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
WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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
Former Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff / Former Ambassador to the United States / Current Head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
French soldier and politician, born 1921, former Colonial Administrator of the Comores (1962-1963), was awared the French Legion of Honor for his military service in 2015
English author and biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007)
Puerto Rican world champion boxer, first man to defeat Roberto Duran, also fought Antonio Cervantes and Saoul Mamby for world titles, convicted of murderr 1981, P.R. jails all star baseball player and Christian preacher
British director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War
World War II fighter pilot, first commander of the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise CVN-65). Reached the rank of Vice Admiral with the Navy
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
From Wooster, Ohio, Hal played guard for the first OSU National Championship team in 1942. Was named All-Western Conference that year. Served as a Captain in the 11th Airborne as a paratrooper during WWII. Played 3 seasons for the Rams
Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which the IBM PC personal computers were based including bus control means for peripheral processing devices
United States Army major general during World War II and the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 20 and 21, 1950, during the Battle of Taejon in South Kore
British and American economist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa; earned a Purple Heart in the latter on Wana Ridge. JFK campaign 1960
tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father and mother, two brothers and two sisters. The case is notable for being the real life inspiration behind the book and film versions of The Amityville Horror
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)
WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
WWII: I Company, 3rd BN, 157th Infantry, 45th Division. One of the liberators od Dachau concentration camp, actually the very first sodier to enter the compund who shot open the lock of the gates
WWII: ETO. D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Holland, Alsace. A Line Company and G Company, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Bronze Star
Alcatraz Inmate 1953-58/Author 'The Ghost of Alcatraz'/As teenager to raise $1000 to bail father out of jail, he robbed corner grocery. was 1st heist in dramatic crime spree across the country & condemned him to Alcatra
Italian WWII Resistance fighter, born 1923. Trained as paratrooper, first and maybe only female to make a WWII combat jump. Broke ankle, kept on her missions. Germans killed her Resistance brother, inspired her own Resistance ambitions
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
WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Top turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress based at Hickam Field. Also saw action in the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal
Vincent 'Chickie' DeMartino - a Colombo soldier. In 1993, DeMartino was sentenced to four years in prison on weapons charges. In 1999, Alphonse Persico ordered DeMartino and Thomas Gioeli to murder William Cutolo.
Born Ivan Mykolayovych Demyanyuk; is a retired auto worker and former United States citizen, who gained notoriety after being accused of Holocaust-related war crimes.Born:04/03/1920
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
WWII - Captured during Battle of the Bulge, he became the most famous POW of WWII when LIFE featured a photo taken at prison camp Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, on the day of his liberation. He became known as 'The Human Skeleton'
Retired Captain of the Royal Air Force. The oldest surviving knight of the Military Order of William , and this the last of the Royal Air Force of World war 2.
Born: 07/23/1914
Considered Sicily's top Cosa Nostra boss, born 26 April 1962. Was on the run for 30 years, but apparently has just been arrested in Italy. AKA Diabolik
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
US Politician, Maryland (1822-82) Medical doctor, then into politics as a Whig, then a Democrat. Senator, 1877-79. Gave stirring speech to re-open investigation of controversial R.B. Hayes election, but unsuccessful
WW2/Normandy D-Day/Navy/After landing at Normandy on D-Day in 1944, he encountered a young French girl who waved him over and spoke to him in perfect English
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
American actor, author, and former United States Navy SEALs commander. Denver is most known for his role as Lieutenant Rorke in the 2012 film Act of Valor and for his appearance as team leader in the Fox Television series, American Grit
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
WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
Trump's impeachment lawyer, Harvard Law Professor, appellate attorney, member of O. J. Simpson's 'Dream Team, author of 'The Abuse Excuse', 'Reversal of Fortune', 'Reasonable Doubts', 'The Advocate's Devil', 'The Genesis of Justice', 'Chutzpah'
French Egyptologist. Born: 11/17/1913, known for her role in the preservation of the Nubian temples (e.g. Abu Simbel) from flooding caused by the Aswan Dam
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
WWII: D-Day. Coast Guard assigned to attack transport USS Samuel Chase, ferrying troops of 1st Infantry, Big Red 1 1&2 wave to Omaha Beach on Higgins Boat. In invasions of North Africa; Sicily; Salerno/Made 11 or 12 trips back & forth from ship to beach
Countess of Romanones, Grandee of Spain/OSS cipher clerk during World War II. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962 (LIVES IN MADRID SPAIN)Author 'El fin de una era' (2010), published in Spain
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
American mathematician and former professional magician and poker player. He teaches statistics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness
US WWII Army, born 1921. Action in Tunisia and the first wave in the Sicily attack. Wounded at Sicily, taken by Germans to Stalag 2B. POW/slave labor for 21 months. 1st Division, 26th Infantry
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
WWII - 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division; 1st Marines, 1st Mar. Div. in Korea. Veteran of Saipan, Tinian and the entire Battle of Iwo Jima; radio operator, telecom lineman, and handling COMS for the storied Navajo Codetalkers
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss (AV-4). Being attacked by Japanese aircraft, he manned a small launch and was ordered to retrieve bodies from the water
Michael 'Mikey Scars' DiLeonardo (born June 18, 1955) is an Italian-American New York mobster who formerly belonged to the Gambino crime family and is now a government informant
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
Leon & Mike Donnet took a Stampe SV4 aircraft under the noses of the German enemy in WW2 Belgium, repaired the plane & excaped occupied enemy territory. This done July 4th 1941. Later joined British Royal Air Force
Artist and social activist, born 1969. Wrongfully convicted of murder after a trial with no evidence or motive, exonerated after serving 27 years. Acclaimed for his golf course artworks
WWII - Served with the 4th Marine Division in the South Pacific; Iwo Jima survivor. Took a series of dramatic war photographs now housed at the U.S. Marine Corps museum in Quantico
WWII: SM3 at Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (The Ship That Would Not Die). D - Day, Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. He was awarded the medal for conspicuous leadership during the taking of a strongly defended hill as part of Opera
WWII: 3rd Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th PIR, 82nd AB. Paratropper in Operation Market Garden; served in the 82nd until the end of the war; occupation duty in Berlin
WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong 1941. Of D Company, Royal Rifles of Canada, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war
American former civil rights activist. She was president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, having resigned when it was revealed that she was Caucasian, not African-American
WWII: One of two survivors of the Lezaky massacre, razed as a reprisal of Heydrich's assassination in 1942. She and her sister were the only survivors and were adopted. Maiden name Stulik. Lived in Vcelakov about a decade ago
WWII. PTO. Sonar Man First Class on the USS Melvin R. Newman participating in seven major engagements, including Okinawa and Iwo Jimo. Also in Korean War
North Korean defector living in South Korea, the only person known to have successfully escaped from a 'total-control zone' grade internment camp in North Korea
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
Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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
Mike Donnet & Leon Divoy in occupied German Belgium Territory, discovered damaged Stampe SV4 aircraft, repaired it & flew it to safty under the German enemy's noses on July 4th 1941. Later both joined the British Royal Air Force
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)
From November 25 to 26, 1981, Hélène Dorigny and Michel Arnould set a new hot-air balloon distance record of 717 miles (1154 km) while piloting their balloon, 'Semiramis.'