State Trooper with the Texas Highway Patrol , Max was stationed at Dallas Trade Mart for Pres. Luncheon . Later assigned guard duty for Gov. Connolly at Parkland
WWII: Homefront/Atlantic: USS Moberly (PF-63). On May 6, 1945, the Coast Guard-manned frigate USS Moberly, sank the German U-853 in the Atlantic off Block Island, R.I, as the last U-boat sunk in the European War. There were no survivors
WWII: Operation Oblivion, the last of the 13 Chinese Canadian veterans who signed up for the covert mission to land in Japan-occupied China. Trained for 4 months but never entered combat as the war ended before they could be used
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Shop 51 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, but dispatched to the USS Shaw (DD-373) and onboard at the time of the attack. Later an USAAF B-29 pilot
US Army WWII era vet, born 1927. Army officer school in 1944, became Paymaster for the Tuskegee Airmen in 1946. Became a Boston lawyer and social activist. Appointed a Brig. General in 2022 by Massachusetts Governor
Father of professional golfers Tiger Woods and Cheyenne Woods. Served 2 tours of duty in Vietnam & retired w/ the rank of lieutenant colonel. Broke the Big Eight Conference (then the Big Seven Conference) 'color barrier' in baseball in 1951
1/27/1909-3/18/2001 American aviatrix along with husband Jimmie Woods, formed longest-lasting air circus, the Flying Aces Air Circus. Served with the Civil Air Patrol during WW2 later becoming an aircraft mechanic and piloting teacher
Roger Woodward is the only person to go over Niagara Falls without a barrel and survive. After a boat he was in capsized, the seven year old, wearing only a life jacket and a bathing suit, went over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and lived
Last living (confirmed and verified) Civil War veteran (1850-1956). Served in the Union Army as a drummer boy in a Minnesota regiment. 3 others claiming to be Confederate vets who lived passed him were later found to most likely be false claims
WWII: D-Day. USS Arkansas at Omaha Beach. Responsible for the radar at the ship's combat information center. The USS Arkansas engaged German shore batteries off Omaha Beach
Pioneer in the Commercial Aviation Industry/ Wordlaw is one of approximately 25 black female pilots flying for a major airline in the U.S. today/Featured in the film, 'The Women's List'
WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941 off Malaya when also HMS Prince of Wales was sunk, an event in the war that often is named 'Britain's Pearl Harbor'
WWII: 153 Battalion, Tavistock, 51st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. Phoney War 1939/1940; Dunkirk, Operation Torch (French North Africa), Tunisia (Kasserine Pass), Italy (Monte Cassino); ended the war in Klagenfurt, Austria
Texas Ranger, drove Mayor's car in JFK's Dallas motorcade. Helped remove the President's body from the limo on arrival at Parkland Hospital. Later served 16 years as a county sheriff
WWII flew a P-51 Mustang (three confirmed aerial victories, one of which was against a Me-262 ? the eighth to have ever been shot down). Brigadier General. AKA: 'Mormon Mustang'
Professor at Columbia Law School, director of the Poliak Center at Columbia Journalism School and a contributing writer at NewYorker.com. He is best known for his work on Net Neutrality theory
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
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) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Combat Air Crewman in Patrol Bombing Squadron VP-63. He was sent to Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Bay of Biscayne, Africa, England, and Gibraltar
Hiroshima survivor. 8yo, knocked out in her garden by the blast. Woke to mother calling family together, 'Let's all die together!' Began to learn English at 80, so she could tell her story to more people
Japanese physician. In 2012 he along with John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
Japanese-born American scientist, who was a pioneer in the cloning and fertilization. Led the team that cloned the first animal cloned from adult cells that survived adulthood. Also pioneered in vitro fertilization
WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Served in K Company with U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. His unit liberated German-held towns in Italy and France
US Woman Marine of WWII, born 1923. Served 1944-46 at a Post Exchange at Parris Island, SC where male Marines where trained and sent overseas. Career working for the NYS Mental Health Department
American lawyer. She served as a United States Attorney and later United States Deputy Attorney General, having been appointed to both positions by President Barack Obama/Fired by Donald Trump while serving the White House
Brigadier General/ 1st woman to take command of a US Army infantry division at Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, California/She served as UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot
He captured Kennedy motorcade on film with Kodak Brownie movie camera from NW corner of Main & Market street. Later received a firsthand account of assassination from coworker, Charles Brehm, who saw shooting from only a few feet away
(1937-1994) was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut who became the first physician to make a space flight. He died from a heart attack in 1994. The asteroid 8450 Egorov is named in his honor
(born July 13, 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10
WWII - Yellin is the fighter pilot who flew the 1st land-based fighter mission (from Iwo Jima) over Japan on Apr. 7, 1945, as well as the last mission of WWII on Aug. 14, 1945, and witnessed the last US death of the war, his best friend
WWII veteran, one fo about 200 men on the Remagen Bridge as it collapsed after repeated attacks by German forces trying to prevent its use as an Allied route in to Germany. Ran from the trembling bridge, hitting the river bank as 28 others were killed, an
One of the many survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He was one of only 14 people to live after being within 750m of the hypocentre of the explosion. He is now 80
US WWII Army Air Corps radioman, born 1925. Flew over Hiroshima the day after the bomb hit, and also witnessed the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, as part of the air support for Bockscar, the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki
WWII: Japanese spy in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941; rented a flat overlooking the harbour, taking notes on Fleet movements + security measures, dived in the harbour, rented planes to observe military installations
WWII Home Front: She was a 'Rosie The Riveter' on '5 Grand', the 5,000th B-17 built after Pearl Harbor which carried the signatures of all the people who built her
Born December 31, 1978. Played College Basketball for Hargrave Military Academy. Was drafted by the Detroit Pistons 2nd round 1998. Played in NBA 1998-1999, and played in other pro leagues around the world till 2005
2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash 'for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
JFK - Secret Service agent, LBJ detail, best known for using his body to shield Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson during the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963
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
Former Soviet spy, a mole in the KGB, spying for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1970s and 1980s before being caught and imprisoned/Would take pictures of sensitive documents using a tiny CIA camera disguised as a cigarette lighter
WWII: Sonarman in Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (DD-724 aka 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)
US Army WWII vet, born 1919. 158th Bushmasters, served in the Philippines, Australia, Germany. Rare survivor of both the 1918 Flu as an infant, and Covid-19 as a centenarian
Alleged Nazi war criminal. He was born in Auk?tadvaris, Lithuania. At age 95 (as of July 2010) he stands to become the oldest person ever deported as a result of an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations
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
Former head of Mossad from 1968 - 1974. Zamir also fought in Haganah's Palmach, an underground army, during WWII. and fought with the IDF in the 1948 Arab - Israeli War
Granddaughter of Kennedy assassination eyewitness Abraham Zapruder. Her recollections were recorded as part of a panel discussion on the 2013 publication, LIFE: The Day Kennedy Died
Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.[6] Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physical chemistry and analytical chemistry
WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Oakland from 1942 to 1946. Was in many battles in the Pacific incl. Coral Sea, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; near the USS Bunker HIll when she was hit by 2 Kamikaze; watched the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
US Army WWII vet, born 1923. Served from Normandy (days after D-Day) through the Bulge and the end of the war in the 550th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
JFK - A longtime engineer and executive with the Eastman Kodak Company, Zavada is the man who authenticated the Abraham Zapruder film; his verdict that the film is unaltered made him a target of the conspiracy community
NASA/MIT/Draper: Software Engineer starting with Apollo 8 (incl. Apollo 11); co-wrote the software for the command module program turning the engines on and off
Son and grandson of Klansmen who joined ranks with the black students who were sitting-in, marching, fighting, and sometimes dying to challenge the Southern 'way of life' he had been raised on but rejected. Former field secretary of SNCC
WWII: ETO. 5th Army, 36th Texas Division, 141st Regiment, Co I, 3rd Platoon. Battle of Monte Cassino, Operation Diadem (Velletri, Marched into Rome behind General Clark), Invasion of Southern France. Taken POW, spent 95 days in 5 camps)
Whistle Blower/25-Year-Old Sparked Plunge at Lumber Liquidators because of his blog post/â-?60 Minutesâ- piece contributed to a 41 percent stock decline in the week through 03/03/2015/It's about about alleged formaldehyde issues in lumber
Actress: Lake Placid 2, Wildfire, Frat Party, Wolf Town, Beautiful Wave, Jurassic Attack, Deadly Revenge, The Ex Next Door, Romeo and Juliet Killers, Echo Base // Guest Star: That 70's Show, Cold Case, Bones, Castle, NCIS, Parenthood, Hawaii Five-0
One of Airbus founders & 1st President. Fought for French Resistance WW2. 1944 made commander of the Free French air forces in London, going on to become chief of staff of the French Forces of the Interior under General Koenig
WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran
Military Veteran. Project Alberta. Army technician servicing the fusing electronics on the two Atomic Bombs on Tinian Island in the Western Pacific
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
Nuclear physicist @ University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory/worked on Manhattan Project & credited starting World?s self-sustaining nuclear reaction by withdrawing a control rod from world?s 1st nuclear reactor on 12/2/1942
Author of two JFK books 'The Texas Connection' in 1991 and 'The Final Chapter on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy' in 2010/JFK conspiracy theorist points finger at LBJ
American lawyer, author, and television talk-show host of the PBS syndicated program Conversations with Jim Zirin. He also a member of the Consolidated Corporate Fund Leadership Committee of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Holocaust Survivor/10 years old when Nazis invaded Polish town of Siemiatycze. Jews were rounded up, segregated in ghetto & sent to Treblinka, extermination camp. Zoltakâ-™s family avoided fate by escaping ghetto through barbed wire & hiding
Engineer on the Voyager mission since the day it launched: September 5, 1977. He works on Voyager's flight data systems, which have just 64 kilobytes of memory (0.000064 gigabytes) and run a long-since retired computer language
Scientist; MIT; NASA. Principal investigator for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission (2011-2012); other planetary mission participation: NASA LRO, MRO, Dawn, NEAR, Mars Global Surveyor
Survivor of US Airways Flight 1549, who was successfully ditched in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan six minutes after departing from LaGuardia Airport