Ukraine Male. One of the survivors of The Chernobyl disaster that occurred on 26 April 1986 in Ukraine, Russia. He was working as an a station operator at the moment of the explosion. Lives in Russia
Assistant Dallas District Attorney in 1963, Bondies observed the Kennedy motorcade near the corner of Main and Houston Streets. Although not assigned to work on the case against Jack Ruby, Bondies observed part of the Ruby trial in 1964
US WWI veteran, born 1924. Served in Italy at Anzio, Rome, the Po Valley, and witnessed the abuse of Mussolini's body in the public square by Italian citizens
LTC, USAAF, 773 Bomb Sqdn, 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force
B-17 Pilot, 30 missions over Italy as Sqdn. Leader.
Hickam Field, Hawaii - Pearl Harbor Survivor
Distinguished Flying Cross
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
Born 1924, Booker served in the British Royal Navy from 1940-1954 during WWII and peacetime. He later became a well-known Engineer and is known for his book A History Of Engineering Drawing published in 1963
WWI: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oklahoma. Hardly escaped the sinking ship and being strafed by Japanese pilots after jumping into the harbor. Pictured exactly 3 years later in a popular War Bond Drive photograph
Henry Joseph Borelli also known as 'Dirty Henry' (born 1948) was a New York mobster with the Gambino crime family who became a member of the violent DeMeo crew
JFK - US Secret Service; served with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; also present and took part in the gunfight that foiled an assassination attempt on Harry S. Truman
Andrei Ivanovich Borisenko is a Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut in May 2003, and is a veteran of two long duration missions to the International Space Station
Broadway: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Wonka), Spamalot (Historian, Dad, French Guard, Minstrel, Prince Herbert), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy), Amour (standby for Dusoleil), Footloose (Willard), Jesus Christ Superstar. Off-Broadway: Elegies: A Son
Survived for 7 months inside Auschwitz, where the average lifespan of a child was just 2 weeks. Immigrated to the US after liberation. Worked more than 40 years as a scientist and researcher focusing on growth hormone and cancer treatment
Dutch Male Former Politician Member Of The House of Representatives Of The Netherlands (1998-2000, And 2002-2007). Deputy Prime Minister Of The Netherlands (2007-2010)
Survivor of US Airways Flight 1549, who was successfully ditched in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan six minutes after departing from LaGuardia Airport
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
Aerospace Engineer, Structures Division (1962)
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas
Aerospace Engineer, Mission Planning and Analysis Division (1962-1965)
Flight Dynamics Officer Apollo Program
Plaintiff in the case Bostock v. Clayton County, GA, heard by the US Supreme Court that helped end states' ability to fire employees solely for being members of the LGBT community
WWII - Paratrooper of the 82nd AB Division (All Americans), 505th PIR, who had four combat jumps: Sicily, Italy, Normany (D-Day) and Holland (Market Garden). He's currently the subject of a documentary in the works (Four Jumps For Freedom)
'Police reporter at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963, Bosworth was an eyewitness to the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Earlier that year he covered the attempted shooting of Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker'
JFK: Gained national notoriety with an 8mm film of President Kennedy at the Rice Hotel on November 21, 1963. This film is now archived at the Sixth Floor Museum
Herta Bothe (born January 8, 1921 in Teterow, Mecklenburg, Germany) was a female Nazi concentration camp guard imprisoned for war crimes, but ultimately released
Congressional Gold Medal Winner: 11-year-old Roland Boucher made national headlines in saving five playmates who fell through the ice of Lake Champlain in 1942
American author and speech expert. Co-editor of GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. Co-wrote the screenplay for the film Basquiat. Has appeared on CNN, The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, the BBC, and many others
Former president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and the American Academy for Environmental Protection.He was consultant on the film Soylent Green
WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa. USS Presque Isle (LST-678, later renumbered APB-44). The Presque Isle was an auxiliary personnel barracks where sailors of sunk ships could stay until they could be reassigned
Witnessed assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on 11/22/63/Moment of the assassination, was operating the Union Terminal Company's two-story tower, overlooking parking lot around north of grassy knoll, west of School Book Depository
US Army Col. (1879-1919). Mexican border howitzer battery. Made aid-de-camp to Gen. Pershing in October 1917. French Legion of Honor. Died in France from the flu in 1919
American Former Stunt Woman - Wing - Walker That Performed Numerous Aerial Stunts Between 1921-29 Including Automobile - Airplane Transfers, And Parachute Jumps
(Born 1938) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, a Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and a Legion of Merit
1st- was a flying tiger/ then led black sheep squadron-vmf-214- fighter ace- 28 kills/ medal of honor recipient ww2/ prisoner of war in ww2 in japanese pow camp for 20 months too
WWII - A seaman on the USS Taylor, he witnessed the surrender of Japan on Sept. 2, 1945 on board the USS Missouri as the USS Taylor had been selected to anchor next to the Missouri
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
WWII: ETO. E Co., 262nd Reg., 66 Inf. Div. Eyewitness to the sinking of the SS Leopoldville by torpedo as he was aboard the HMS Cheshire, which was right behind in the convoy that should support the US troops in the Battle of the Bulge
(Born 1929) US Navy Korean and Vietnam War Veteran. POW in North Vietnam from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
WWII: B-24 ball turret gunner in the 760th Bomb Squadron, 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Flew 50 m issions from February to August 1944 (airfield Spinazzola). Missions include Austria, Germany, Bucharest, Ploesti
Centenarian and is an Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor, arranger and musical archivist who, in his early career, was principal cellist in the Colón Theatre orchestra in Buenos Aires, Argentina
American politician & lawyer from New York State serving as the NY County District Attorney. 2021, became the 1st African American elected to that office/Indicted Donald J. Trump of criminal charges in New York court
British field marshal, also known as Baron Bramall, served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982
South African Prison Guard to Nelson Mandela at Robben Island prison between 1978 and 1987. - Author of the book 'Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend' (2014)
JFK - Witness to President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas; can be clearly seen and identified in the Zapruder film; gives speeches about his experiences that day
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
WWII: Pilot of the 'Clay Pigeon', a C-47 that flew paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day and was shot down on Sept. 17, 1944, during Operation Market Garden
Royal Flying Corps in France during World War I/1921, Brearley founded West Australian Airways Ltd./ 1927, Brearley opened the Perth Flying School at Maylands
WWII: 447th Bomb Squadron, 321st Bomb Group, 57th Bomb Wing, 12th Air Force. B-25 Mitchell pilot in the ETO/MTO. 68 missions along the German supply lines in the Brenner Pass between the border of Austria and Italy. Flew, among others, #43-27542 'Supersti
Korean War vet, US Army, born 1932. Served in Korea 1950-51 with the 2nd Division, 23rd Infantry. Jeep driver. Struck in the shoulder by shelling near the Naktong River in North Korea, received Purple Heart and back to combat a day later
American government official who was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency/25 years with CIA included work as Near East & South Asia analyst, as station chief in Saudi Arabia, & as director of the National Counterterrorism Center
Last surviving surgeon of the D-Day landings. He saved the lives of 1,000 troops in nine months in France. Born: 1913. He is now 103 and lives in Wickham, Hampshire, England
Last living participant of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial (1920-2003). Picked as a four year old boy by the trial's judge to pull juror names out of a hat
(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Captured as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge and did hard labor and lost 70 pounds at time of his release. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Legion of Honor recipient
Centenarian (1895-2001). US veteran of the Army expedition against the Pancho Villa raids in 1916, and then served in WWI in France. During the New Deal era, he worked for the Roosevelt's TVA
NYT bestselling author and speaker. Appeared on PBS-TV's Stories from the Stage. Recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead. 4-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Has performed two award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedic solo shows
American Civil Rights Activist .As A 6 Year Old In 1960, She Became First African - American Child To Attend An All - White Elementary School In The US South Civil Rights Movement In Louisiana, New Orleans
Canadian Female Former Inventor- Rocket Scientist Best Known For Her Development Of Rocket And Jet Propulsion Technologies. Inductee Inventor Hall Of Fame (2010)
WWII: Company G, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Received a Bronze Star for action in the Battle of Remagen, March 28, 1945
JFK/According to Bringuier, Lee Oswald visited him at his store & posed as friend of the Cuban exiles, offering to join the fight against Castro/ Bringuier's clothing store in New Orleans became the local headquarters for anti-Castro Cubans
American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist serving as the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy In 2019, Brinton was the head of advocacy and government affairs at the non-profit LGBTQ
American Female Campaigner Running For Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, Virginia. Fired From Government Contracting Firm For Giving Donald Trump, In His Motorcade, middle Finger/Won seat on Loudoun County Board of Supervisors for Algonkian district
American Former Male Photographer. He Was Head Photographer To Shoot Movies (In 16-Millimetre Black - And - White Film) For The Trinity Test. The First Nuclear Weapon Detonation (July 1945)
Science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at The NYT. Co-author of 8 books, including Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. Won 2 shared Pulitzer Prizes, an Emmy award, and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
WWII - D-Day. 82nd AB, 507th PIR, Division HQ; Aide to Gen.l Gavin. Saw heavy fighting in the Battle of La Fiere Causeway on June 9, 1944, bloodiest small unit combat of the initial landing days. Also Operation Market Garden. Purple Heart
Participated 1964 Civil Rights protest at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. Mr. Broadnax held a sign that included a picture of President Kennedy on one side and the hand-lettered words 'DID JFK DIE IN VAIN'
JFK - Escorted Jackie Kennedy to the consecration of the Eternal Flame grave site March 15, 1967; popular through a photo that became an official postcard. Also served at the Pageant of Peace ceremony, Dec. 17, 1962 for JFK
American Female Author, Academic, And Former Military Officer. Novel - 'All In: The Education of General David Petraeus' (Co Writer With Vernon Loeb)(2012)
NASA test pilot - high-altitude ER-2 Earth science aircraft and the C-20A, a modified Gulfstream III business jet that carries a sophisticated synthetic aperture radar on environmental science missions
One of the last surviving construction workers who worked on The Shasta Dam, which began construction in 1938. He is now 99 and lives in Redding, California, U.S.A
American Housewife Of A Mechanic At The Service Station On Jefferson Blvd, Dallas. Mary Saw A White Male Walk Past Her At A Fast Pace. She Later Identified Him, To FBI Agents, As Lee Harvey Oswald (John F. Kennedy Assassination 1963)
Legal Clerk, Consumer Advocate,& Environmental Activist Instrumental In Building Case Against The Pacific Gas & Electric Company Of California in 1993. Movie Made About this & Julia Roberts Portrayed Erin Brockovich/2021 TV series based on her life Rebel
Member of The Ritchie Boys (Born Nov. 11, 1923) was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War 2 now 97 years old
Bronson was an eyewitness to the JFK Kennedy assassination. Her late husband, Charles Bronson, was filming in Dealey Plaza and caught the fatal head shot on film from a distance
WWII: PTO. Gunner's Mate 2nd Class in PT-Boat squadrons MTB RON 16 and MTB RON 42 in the Southwest Pacific incl. Mios Woendi, Dutch New Guinea; Mindoro, P.I.; Brunei Bay, Borneo
WWII - Fighter Ace, 13 victories, USAAF. 15th AF, 31st Fighter Group, 307th Fighter Squadron, based in San Severo, Italy. Test pilot after the war. Married singer Martha Tilton in 1953. Flew P-51, P-38, P-40, B-45, F-86 Sabre in Korea and F-100
American Male Sled Dog Racer, Kennel Owner And Motivational Speaker - Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race Winner (1999). Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Runner Up (2002 And 2003). Henry Haln 200 Winner (1996)
US WWII Naval Air Corps vet, born 1923. Jokingly signed up a buddy for the Blimp program to hear him complain, then got picked for it himself. At 99, possibly the last Navy Blimp pilot of WWII. Postwar career as a Texas preacher
WWII US Navy (b. 1925) Joined 1943, first in his training class. Assigned to Adm. Bull Halsey's staff, clerical and radio duties. Switched to USS Missouri with Halsey, present for the onboard Japanese Surrender Ceremony
Tutored by Medgar Evers, Samuel Williams, J. Pious Barbour, & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as one of the 8 students in the only class Dr. King taught in his lifetime at Morehouse College/Known for activism, intellectual discipline, & oratory
A Dallas Police Detective in 1963 , Charles and his partner accompanied witness Helen Markham to the police station to identify Lee Harvey Oswald in a line-up
American Female Civil Rights Activist - President Of The 'Brown Foundation For Educational Equity, Excellence and Research', And Owner Of 'Brown & Associates, Educational Consulting Firm
American Female Flight Aviator - First Long - Distance Solar - Powered Flight. Flew A Tiny Experimental Solar - Powered Aircraft, 'Solar Challenger,' 6 miles In 22 Minutes Near Marana, Arizona. (Dec. 3, 1980)
American Female Consultant. Award - Winning Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author And Diversity And Inclusion Expert. Founder of Jennifer Brown Consulting. Novel - 'Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change' (2016)
English mountaineer who made many significant ascents in the Alps in the 1950's. In 1955, he was part of the team who made the first ascent of the third highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga in the in the Nepalese Himalaya
US WWII 5th Marines, Iwo Jima, born 1923. Served as Asst. Chaplain for his unit. Pressed into service treating wounded at Iwo Jima, with no medical training. Gave plasma and morphine shots to the wounded among the dead on the beach
Tuskegee airman ww2. note this entry is not for the tuskegee airman, larry brown who was associated with the red tail project in minnesota. this person lives in texas and was still alive aged 93 in november of 2016
American Former Female Campaigner For Equality In Education. Brown vs. Board of Education - The Little Girl Went To Segregated School In Topeka, Kansas, 1954
Hungarian Female Holocaust Survivor/Imprisonment in Auschwitz - Birkenau Concentration camp August 1944. Was one of a thousand Jewish Hungarian women who were transported to Allendorf, Germany, a sub - camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Astronomer, born 1965. Discovered many objects in the far solar system, including Eris, which led to Pluto being downgraded to a 'Dwarf Planet' with Eris. Author of the book 'I Killed Pluto.'
American Female Army Medic Sargent. First Medic To Receive The Silver Star. First Woman In Afghanistan And Only The Second Female Soldier Since World War II To Receive The Silver Star. (2008)
A teen in '63 , Phil saw the motorcade on Houston Street and ran toward Triple Overpass after shots were fired .His father , Dep. Sheriff Richard Brown , served as Jack Ruby's dietician during his incarceration
American Female Author, Screenwriter, Activist, And Feminist - Novel - 'Rubyfruit Jungle'(1973), 'Six Of One'(1978), 'A Nose for Justice: A Novel'(2010), 'In Her Day: A Novel'(1976). Movie - 'The Slumber Party Massacre'(Writer)(1982) Plus Many More Books
American Female Historic Person - Civil Rights Activist; She Was A Member Of The Little Rock Nine, A Group Of Nine African American Teenagers Who Integrated Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas (1957)
American Female Lawyer, Environmentalist, Businesswoman, And Professional Speaker. 'Director Of The Office Of Energy And Climate Change Policy' (2009-2011). '8th Administrator Of The Environmental Protection Agency' (1993-2001)
American Historic Event Person - JFK - Attendee Of President Kennedy's Last Speech, Fort Worth, Pictured In The Crowd, 21st November 1963. Now A Real Estate Agent - Owner Of 'Phyllis Browning Company: San Antonio Real Estate' Texas
Korean War Vet/US Army 1951-1953/Bronze Star Awarded/19th Engineer Combat Group/Saw Nagasaki Japan six years after the atomic bomb & saw a leveled blast field, just rubble
Olympic athlete.Brundage has been criticized for controversial decisions and statements relating to women and Jews in sports, primarily made during his earlier tenure as president of the United States Olympic Committee during the 1936 Summer Olympics in B
(Born 1969) US Army Gulf War Veteran. During the war his unit was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division was responsible for the initial breach of Iraqi defenses. Served in Operation Desert Sheild
American Female Historic Person - Former Member Of The Manson Family. Mother Of Charles Manson's Son - Valentine Michael Manson (nicknamed 'Pooh Bear'). She Participated In The Murder Of Manson Associate Gary Hinman
2/7/1893-1978 Pioneer public relations with promotion of aviation/When WW1 began, Harry took pilot training @ Deseronto Airport with Canadian Royal Flying Corps, Squadron 84 at Camp Mohawk/Parents were sailing on RMS Lusitania when it sank
WWII veteran, born 1925, B-29 navigator in the Army Air Corps. Enlisted in 1943, trained for 2 years, sent to Guam in June of 1945, flew a couple bombing missions. He was also sent to Tinian as a backup crew for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions, though
Operations manager for KXOL radio Fort Worth in 1963, Bruton covered the President's visit to the city in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald's death at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Oswald's funeral the following day
JFK - Rev. Baxton Bryant met and greeted Kennedy on his arrival at Love Field Dallas on November 22, 1963; can be seen shaking hands and talking to the Kennedys in several well-known photographs
WW2 1943-1945 B-17 Tail Gunner/shot down by German Jets on 3rd mission, only survivor/POW captured by Hitler Youth/POW Medal & Purple Heart/Honored 70 years after service/2005 met the German fighter pilot who shot down his plane
American Female Biologist - Best Known For Work On Olfactory System. Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine, Along With Richard Axel, For Their Work On Olfactory Receptors (2004)
American Female Rector And Author - Diocesan Bishop of Episcopal Dioceses of Washington D.C (2011- ) Washington's First Female Diocesan Bishop. Novel - 'Gathering Up Fragments Of Spiritual Practice' (2008), 'Receiving Jesus: The Way of Love' (2019)
WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot. USS Yorktown, Saratoga, Enterprise and Hornet. Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz and the first battle of the Philippine Sea, plus a month with the 'Cactus Air Force' on Guadalcanal,
Brazilian Historic Person - One Of The Last Surviving Veterans Of The Contestado War, Which Was A Guerrilla War For Land Between Settlers And Landowners. The Latter Supported By The Brazilian State's Police And Military Forces 1912 to 1916
Author and human/international law specialist, Holocaust survivor; grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Kielce (Poland) and later in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen
National Geographic Fellow and NYT-bestselling author. Co-produced an Emmy Award-winning documentary & holds three Guinness records for endurance cycling. He is an explorer, speaker, business founder & was in a relationship w/ Cheryl Tiegs
American Former Actress And Model - Miss America 1946. Movie - 'Queen of Outer Space' (1946), 'The Unearthly' (1957), 'Touchez Pas au Grisbi' (1954), 'Frogman Spy' (1954), 'A Night of Fame' (1949), 'Adorable Creatures' (1952). Plus Many More Roles
WWII: Aviation mechanic for the Dauntless dive bomber of Lt. Daniel Iverson, one of the pilots who sank the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the Battle of Midway
Former Manson Prosecutor, best-selling author of the books 'Helter Skelter', 'And The Sea Will Tell', 'Outrage', and 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder'
Russian Scientist Who In 1978 Stuck His Head Into The Largest Particle Accelerator In Russia At The Time To Fix Something. The Accelerator Malfunctioned At Shot A Laser At His Head That Was Equal To 2,000 Greys. He Survived And Is Alive Tod
Astronomer, planetary scientist, born 1958. Has been involved with the discovery and research in to many new minor planetary objects. Has done much work on Pluto, with the New Horizons mission, and the co-discovery of some of Pluto's moons
US WWII Army Air Corps B-17 gunner, born 1924. Shot down over Germany Feb 2, 1944, lost an eye in the explosion. One of the 4 survivors of his 10-man crew. Held POW until April 26, 1945
American Former Male Historic Person. American Organized Crime Boss And FBI Informant Who Led The Winter Hill Gang In The Winter Hill Neighborhood Of Somerville, Massachusetts
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
WW2 veteran born 1913. Claims to have been a stuntman in films before the war. Made news when the cadillac given to him by Rita Hayworth when she died, was stolen
US Merchant Marine WWII vet, born 1926. Last survivor of the SS Henry Bacon sinking, the last ship sunk by the Luftwaffe in WWII, coming back from a Murmansk Run to Russia