Produced & directed films for Sixth Floor Museum, joined Peace Corps immediately after President Kennedy announced the launch of the program in 1961 serving as a member of the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone at the time of the assassination
Author of several bestselling works of fiction and nonfiction for both children and adults. He is a contributing editor at Popular Science and an award-winning science writer
(Born 1919) US Navy WW2 and Korean War Veteran. Join the Navy in 1937 and was on the USS Boise for the entirety of WW2. Kept a diary about his time. Served as a doctor in Korea
WWII: PTO. Arrived at burning Pearl Harbor on Dec. 12, 1941 on USS Mahan (DD-364). Served on several ships later bust mostly USS Claxton (DD-571) where he survived a Kamikaze attack on 1 November 194 missing him by 15 feet
New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. Creator of the web series Kid President & can regularly be seen in Joanna Gaines's The Magnolia Journal. Popular guest on television (including The Today Show, The View, etc) & radio
WWII/Apollo: PTO, Fighter Pilot, 22 mission, Distinguished Flying Cross. Later Vice-President of Rocketdyne (built the rockets, incl. the Saturn V, for NASA)
1051st Quartermaster Company, provided food & clothing to Tuskegee Airmen. Recieved Gold Medal from President Bush with Tuskegee Airmen. Chaplin to Tuskegee Airmen East Coast Chapter. 'Bodyguard to Martin Luther King from Selma Alabama to Montgomery'
Dominick Montiglio (born July 17, 1947) is a former associate of the Gambino crime family. The nephew of Anthony 'Nino' Gaggi, who was a powerful and respected captain in the Gambino family, Dominick became a government witness in 1983 after being arreste
First law enforcement officer to get to the 6th floor and found the gun shells and determined that the shots had come from that area/JFK John F. Kennedy Assassination
ABMA/NASA: Engineer, one of the first Americans to join Wernher von Brauns rocket team (Redstone project, Explorer I, Jupiter). Helped build the Saturn V, as chief of Guidance and Control Division
US Geologist, born 1930. 2020 Penrose Medal winner. Lead scientist involved with Project Famous in the 1970s, and the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption in Washington State
British war hero born 1920 who raised more than 30 million dollars to Corona charity by walking in his yard. 2020 fundraising walk..Also the oldest person to have a number 1 hit in the UK With song you will never walk alone
WWII: No. 138 (Special Duties) Squadron; dropping secret agents into occupied Europe, picking folks up, dropping supplies, cooperating with the French Maquis. Later bombing raids all over Europe
Spy/Deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency and served as acting director twice in 2011 and from 2012 to 2013. Morell retired from his post on August 9, 2013/CIA's first associate deputy director from 2006 to 2008
Moreno commissioned into the Army. She soon earned her certification as a medical surgical registered nurse. She volunteered for a position with U.S. Army Special Operations Command in 2011, when women were still barred from most combat roles.
WWII: D-Day paratrooper. Flew into Normandy aboard C-47 Skytrain 42-92841 'Turf & Sport Special' and dropped to St. Mere-Eglise on June 6, 1944; Normandy (Hill 195), Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. 508th PIR, 82nd AB
WWII - Medic 82nd AB, 505th PIR made four combat jumps (Sicily, Italy, D-Day LaFiere Bridge, Holland), participated in six battle campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
WWII - Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, Navy Base, 11y; his father David Jay Morgan was serving on the USS Ward (fired 1st US shots in WWII), survived the attack and his name is engraved on the crew list by the gun memorial today
JoAnn Hardin Morgan (December 4, 1940) is an American aerospace engineer who was a trailblazer in the United States space flight program as the first female engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) John F. Kennedy Space Center
Henry Morgenthau III (born January 11, 1917) is a centenarian and an American author and television producer, and scion of the famous Morgenthau dynasty and member of the Lehman family
French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and 'complex thought' (pensée complexe)
One of the survivors from Pearl Harbor; together with his brother, Albert, among the last living sets of brothers to serve in the United States Navy and survive the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the same ship
US Politician, VT (1810-98) House 1855-67, Senate 1867-98. One of the founders of the Rep. Party. Pushed laws for federal funds to colleges, creation of Statuary Hall in the Capitol, helped draft 14th Amendment
Cpl. /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
Costume shop owner with her late husband Philip. Claimed to have made and sold a gorilla suit in 1967 to Roger Patterson months before he filmed the famous Bigfoot sighting. He bought extra fur from them to modify the suit they sold him
American radio reporter best known for his dramatic report of the Hindenburg disaster, a catastrophic fire that destroyed the LZ 129 Hindenburg zeppelin on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people
American physicist born November 7, 1915; group leader at Project Manhattan (Trinity); transported the plutonium core of Trinity to test site in an old Plymouth car
Otolaryngologist, US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1925. Served at end of WWII, used GI Bill to get doctorate. While with the US Public Health Service, he delivered Alaska's first baby, 30 minutes after Eisenhower announced it was a new state
WW2/From Bramble Edge in Dorset, Wren working in Newmanry Registration Room receiving German messages from intercept site at Knockholt, near Sevenoaks in Kent on punched paper teleprinter tapes, prepared for Colossus and logging the results
WWII US Army Air Corps, born 1924. Cajun upbringing helped him become an interpreter, nicknamed 'Frenchie'. Attached to Eisenhower's HQ, where he saw most of the top Allied commanders at various times
WWII: D-Day veteran from Norway. Served on the HNoMS Svenner which was sunk off Sword Beach, Normandy, at dawn on 6 June 1944, while supporting the British Army landings
American journalist, born 1932. Covered the Little Rock Nine story for the Arizona Gazette, helping it win a Pulitzer. Covered later world events. Chicago Tribune's London corespondent for many years. Retired there, awarded an honorary MBE
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist. She shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with her husband Edvard and John O'Keefe
Professional astronaut and Chief Astronaut Instructor at Virgin Galactic. She is the first female to work in space as a member of the flight crew on a commercial vehicle on Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity flight on February 22, 2019
American urban planner, public official (1888-1981). Controversial figure led projects including Triborough Bridge, Jones Beach, Shea Stadium, Lincoln Center, and 1964 World's Fair. Later questions on if his work did more harm than good
JFK/After military service, he was a member of the staff of the Warren Commission (President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy) and a clerk to California Supreme Court Justice Mathew Tobriner
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
Born 1942 US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 1 Bronze Star, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
Born: 1900. She is now 112 and is one of the worlds oldest people and is the last living survivor of The 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée, the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. She lives in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, Carribean. Irenise Jean-Baptise
Anti-Apartheid activist. Escaped from Pretoria Local Prison in 1979. The character of Leonard Fontaine in the film Escape from Pretoria is based on him
WWII: PTO. Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Hammann, DD-412. Survived the sinking of his ship when she was hit by a torpedo. He jumped overboard and would remain in the water for nearly 6 hours before being rescued. Also Korea/Vietnam
French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers and Nobel laureate. Along with Donna Strickland and Arthur Ashkin, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Author of OMG That's Me!: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and More. Mental health advocate and stand-up comic. Former businessman and politician
Supercentenarian (1893-2004). Born in Canada, she witnessed bodies being brought in from the Titanic to be buried in Halifax, plus was one of the last survivors of the huge 1917 Halifax ammunition explosion that killed 2,000 people. Moved to Boston in 192
Indian historian known for her work on the role of peasants in the Indian independence movement. She is an ex-chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and author of several books
Cancer physician, researcher & assistant professor at Columbia University. Mukherjee is also the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine
White student civil rights activist, born 1941. Sit-ins and Freedom Rider, jailed. Raised in the deep south by a racist family whose ideas she had to fight against
Born April 7, 1917 is a retired American soldier who served during World War II in the United States Army with the 11th Airborne Division between 1944 and 1945
American game producer and designer. He created the 1980 adventure game The Prisoner, produced the 1995 adaptation I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and developed Heroes of Might and Magic III and Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Awarded 2 Silver Stars, 8 Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2Purple Hearts, as well as the POW medal. Guest of Hanoi Hilton. Author/'The Hanoi Commitment'
WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach (Carentan). C Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry (aka 'Bastogne Bulldogs'), 101st AB. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, all the way to Hitler's Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden and Austria
WW2 vet, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, awarded Congressional Gold Medal; grandfather of basketball player Channing Frye. flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-10, c-47, c119, c-97, a-10
1960s civil rights activist who accomplished Extraordinary Deeds changing face of the Nation & began Modern Civil Rights Movement."/founding chair Chicano Studies department in 1968 at California State University & founding chair of NACCS)
Dam Busters World War 2 VeteranPilot: F/L John Leslie Munro ? Born 1919 New Zealand. . Retired as Wing Commander. Still living in Te Kuiti in New Zealand where he was Mayor for several years.
American cartoonist, author, engineer, anf creator of the award-winning webcomic xkcd. He has written three books: What If?, Thing Explainer, and How To. Was also contract programmer and roboticist for NASA
German-based Yazidi-Iraqi human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. She was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State for three months. She is the first Iraqi to be awarded the Nobel Prize
Russian journalist, television presenter and the editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Maria Ressa
WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
Astrophysicist. He discovered the first Black Hole in 1971. He found out that the bright X-ray source Cygnus X-1 was a binary system, with a giant blue star orbiting a dark object, which he realised had to be a black hole
Newsman. Dallas TV reporter who worked on the scene of the JFK/Oswald shootings for NBC, who he then began a career with. Led one of the few JFK colorcasts, which B&W NBC soon shut down to save face. On the scene at Parkland when Oswald died and cover
Centenarian (1899-2009). 1918 Flu survivor. One of the last living women to vote in the 1920 election. Teacher, and reading advocate throughout her life. Died 3 days before her 110th birthday
One of the last survivors from The Halifax Explosion that occured on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the huge detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc. She is now 97 and resides in Halifax, Nova Scota
WWII: 82nd Airborne Division, 505th PIR. It is confirmed by historians that Bob Murphy was the first guy out and on the ground on the 82nd's lift into Normandy
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Company A, 1st Separate Chemical Battalion, Schofield Barracks. Fought in Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Retired from the military in 1969 after 30 years of service
Simon Murray, CBE (born 25 March 1940) is a Hong Kong - based British businessman, adventurer, author, and former French Foreign Legionnaire. He was the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported, at the age of 63
U.S. Army veteran, retired businessman, author and sought-after lecturer. In 1989, he was one of the most famous men in Panama, the leader of a plot to overthrow the dictatorship backed by Gen. Manuel Noriega
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
WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2 Purple Hearts
Was stripper at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club at the time of the Kennedy Assassination/ True Tales, the new movie about her life as a cabaret star in 1960s showrooms like Ruby?s clubs and the Skyliner Ballroom in Fort Worth
American economist, former university president, education adviser and civil rights advocate. One of Myers' most significant contributions is where he fought to sustain the establishment of historically black colleges