JFK - Retired Judge O'Brien met Kennedy first during his campaign in 1960, and repeatedly therafter, and later was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa by JFK. Flew 30 mission over Europe (WWII, lead bombardier) and earned the DFC
WWII: USMC. Crew chief at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. He took care of the famous Vought F4U Corsair 'Number 13' that was flown by aces KennetH Walsh and Pappy Boyington. He knew both men very well. Later served on Guam and Iwo Jima
Retired Brigadier General. Canadian Member of Parliament for Carleton-Mississippi Hills. Minister of Defence 2006-2007, Minister of National Revenue 2007-2008
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. UH-1 Huey pilot with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Hearts
A H.S. student in '63 , he was with friends at Dallas Love Field, Stemmons Freeway and Parkland . He was present in nurse's classroom for official announcement of Pres. Kennedy's death
2/2/1911-2/16/1994 US Navy submarine commander WW2, Medal of Honor for service on Tang. Served Wahoo, as executive & approach officer. Participated more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other sub officer during war
(Born 1961) US Army Special Forces Veteran and Author. Participated in many operations during his career. He was in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Grenada. Bronze Star Recipient. Has written many books about the Revolutionary War
Witnessed the surrendering of Hitler's Atlantic fleet of U-boat's on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry at the end of WW2. (Born:1932) He is now 84 and lives in Derry, Northern Island. Also known as Father Arthur O'Reilly
JFK: 22-year career as a Secret Service agent working for JFK and LBJ in the White House and on special assignment to Ford, Nixon, Carter and Bush pere. He was in the detail that awaited JFK at Fort Worth the night of November 21, 1963
Frederick attended Beauregard Junior High in New Orleans at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald . He recruited Oswald into the Civil Air Patrol in 1955 when assassination suspect David Ferrie was the squadron commander
WWII: Last surviving Akwesasne Mohawk Code Talker during WWII. Fought in the South Pacific, New Guinea and Philippines theatres as one of 33 Mohawk code talkers
WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) on a ration boat filled with tins of pineapple, boxes and cigarettes
On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district, defeating the incumbent, DCC Chair Joseph Crowley, in what has been described as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election season
Kamikaze pilot WW2/Book, 'Memoirs of a Kamikaze', born on 11 December, 1926 in village Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi's graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan's occupation of China
Journalist, author, and media consultant. Media columnist for Business of Fashion, and reg contributor to The Cut, Refinery29, Vulture, and other publications. Former editor of Cosmopolitan.com. Named 1 of Forbes ?30 Under 30' in 2015
American activist, born Nathanial Burns in 1944. Joined Malcolm X's OAAU in 1965, then the Black Panthers, and later the Black Liberation Army. One of the 'Panther 21' accused by the feds of various violent acts. Caught in 1981, imprisoned until 2014
B.1937 Odio provided testimony to Warren Commission investigating assassination of JFK that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of 3 men who visited her Dallas, Texas apartment in September 1963 to solicit money for the anti-Castro cause
US Centenarian, WWII and Civilian Conservation Corps vet, born 1917. CCC New Deal Program 1934-36 in Massachusetts, then an Army officer in the South Pacific during WWII
WWII - Fighter Ace (6 aerial victories, 17 ground victories, 155 missions) of the 2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group; received a citation for his escort action during Operation Tidal Wave (aka 'Ploesti Raid) in 1943
Japanese and American vet, born 1926 in the US. Raised in Japan, fought for Japan in the last days of WWII. Taken POW by Russia,18 months in a Siberian gulag. Released, later returned to the US, Served in the US Army during the Korean War
(Born 1925) WW2 and Korean War USAAF Veteran. Was in a B-24 Liberator and a tail gunner on a B-29. Witnessed the mushroom cloud from Nagasaki off in the distance in 1945. POW during the Korean War for 2 years
Friend of Jack Ruby, a singer at Ruby's Carousel Club and the adjacent Colony Club, and co-author of Nightmare in Dallas/accompanied Jack Ruby to New Orleans where she met Mafia bosses Johnny Roselli and Carlos Marcello/The Babushka Lady
One of the last British lighthouse keepers before automation took over. Former lighthouse keeper at Kinnaird Head lighthouse, Fraserburgh, Scotland, UK
Born 1920 is the oldest licensed lobsterwoman in the state of Maine in US, and local historians describe her as perhaps the oldest active one in the world
American Architect, born 1926. One of the last living apprentices to Frank Lloyd Wright. Drafted at the end of WWII, on a ship to Okinawa when it ended
Cold War: RB-47 reconnaissance pilot flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
Swedish criminal who was involved in the bank robbery that coined the 'Stockholm Syndrome', is probably living in Belgium and now uses the name Daniel Demuynck
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona. survivor of USS Lexington as it was sinking during the Battle of the Coral Sea; took part in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests after the war
Part of the first generation of female military pilots, eventually accumulating nearly 4,000 hours of flying time/Iraq/Running for Congress in 2020/aviation leader, commander
Dr. Omalu was the first to identify, describe and name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] as a disease entity in football players and wrestlers. He is currently the Chief Medical Examiner of San Joaquin County, California, and is the President and Med
Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
A six-year-old in Dallas in 1963, Onassis was with her mother on Stemmons Freeway when they were passed by the presidential limousine on its way to Parkland Memorial Hospital
Japanese soldier from WW2 who hid in the jungle for 30 years refusing to surrender to the Allies; is now living in Brazil; author of 'No Surrender: My Thirty Year War'
US-based software developer along with two others managed to crack Z340, a 340-character cipher that's one of four such codes attributed to the Zodiac Serial Killer. unknown for 51 years
U.S, Congressman (R) /Former Navy Seal from 1988 to 2014, small time actor/Drunk who gained coverage for verbally accosting & screaming profanities at several Senate Pages in the United States Capitol
Author 'VIETNAM Marine Infantry - One Year in Vietnam'/Trained as a corpsman he was attached to a Marine unit and saw duty on the front lines of the war
FBI agent, responded to the assassination attempt on George Wallace and interviewed Wallace during his recovery. One of the figures who helped head the investigation into possible group effort
Orr stood on the north side of Elm St. between the TSBD and the steps to the pergola and was one of the closest eyewitnesses to the president at the time of the assassination
WWII - His B-24 was shot down on a bombing mission to Ploesti in July 1944 (not the famous Ploesti Raid). For five weeks, with the help of locals and Serbian Chetniks, he escaped Nazis soldiers and was saved during 'Operation Halyard'
Former Colonel of the United States Marine Corps who served from 1975 to 2005. He did 3 tours as a commanding officer and 1 tour in Iraq in 2004. He graduated college in 1996 with 5 degrees (3 master and 2 undergraduate)
(Born 1945) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Company D, 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1966 and then released in 1968. Recipient of a Purple Heart
American (1915-2008), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade. Had joined the Communist party in the 1930s, later hassled by the FBI and HUAC. Left the party when he saw Stalin's actions. Worked also in the civil rights movement
WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
American writer of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo, Newton, Bohr, and stories about physicist Richard Feynman
Aerospace engineer; Project Engineer (Flight Operations) for the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle and for the X?15 Rocket Aircraft served as the flight test Propulsion Engineer. Founder of ALETRO in 2008
Holocaust Survivor/Born in Salonika, Greece/April 1943, With her family & most of Jews of Salonika, deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At Birkenau, Bella & sister Sylvia remained together while the rest of their family was sent to gas chamber
Aleksey Nikolayevich Ovchinin born 28 September 1971 in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian SFSR is a Russian Air Force Major and cosmonaut, who was selected in 2006
Was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D.
One of the last of three known survivors of The Halifax Explosion that devastated the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1917. He is now 95 and lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
(1905-1990) folklorist, author, & professor/Author; 'This Stubborn Soil' 'A Season of Weathering' 'Walking on Borrowed Land'/In 1942 joined the United States Army as a buck private & was assigned to the intelligence branch
JFK: A Deputy in the Dallas Co. Sheriff's Dept . in '63 , he and several other deputies carried out a search of the Paine home at which time the ' infamous blanket ' was found in the garage. He also was close by the TSBD and heard the shots fired
Psychiatrist (Born: 1914) who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II