American publisher Leader of Washington Post, more than 2 decades, overseeing famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to resignation of President Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998
One of the last two survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Born 1912. She was five years old in 1917 when the explosion took place. She is now 107 and lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
US WWII Navy tugboat veteran, born 1922. After the war, became an Atomic veteran when he was part of the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests. Became a writer and voice for Atomic veterans and their health problems
JFK - Secret Service agent, assisted in the Dallas advance, was stationed at the Trade Mart at the time of the assassination; Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Vice Presidents, Rockefeller, and Mondale
Civil rights lawyer, preacher (born 1930). Defended Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, and the MIA during the Montgomery bus boycott. Worked with Martin Luther King and defended him in court. Named National Bar Association president in 1985
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
Last living WWI Veteran (1901-2012). Member of the UK's Women's Royal Air Force during WWI, and it's very last veteran of any type when she died at 110
21 year old student at Middlebury College in Vermont when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride from Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi on June 10, 1961
Senior archivist at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Greenwell joined their staff in 1976. As a Dallas school girl, she saw President's motorcade on November 22, 1963/Saw him just minutes before the assassination
Acquainted with Oswald's June 1962, spent significant amount of time with Oswalds providing transportation, going on excursions, taking Russian language lessons from Marina. Saw the Oswalds on November 22, 1962/Questioned by Secret Service
Civil Rights Activist/Former Black Panther, While with them, was involved in a bank robbery & served 12 years in prison. /As teenager Griffin was outside of Hotel Texas to greet the Kennedy's when they arrived in Fort Worth on November 21
Spy/Former CIA officer who participated on a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, a counterintelligence officer who was subsequently convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
British solicitor, son of paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse. He helped his father interrogate the Enfield poltergeist and, as such, is probably the only member of the Law Society to have cross-examined a ghost. He lives in the UK
Neurosurgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, was in Trauma Room One during the treatment of President and claims to have examined the president's head wound; however, he was not called to testify before the Warren Commission
One of the last living crewmembers (1917-2002) of the Hindenburg that survived the 1937 crash. Served as a ship cook, he jumped to safety through an opening in the ship and ran to safety as the ship fell behind him
Employed at a used-car lot at Patton Ave. and Jefferson Blvd. in Oak Cliff ,he heard gunshots and saw a man run south sticking a handgun in his belt . He positively identified the man as Lee Harvey Oswald
Katharine Teresa Gun is a British translator who worked for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to The Observer
Polish nurse who gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during WWII. Author of In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Hungarian man who appeared in the famous faked photo of a tourist on top of the World Trade Center in NYC just before it was hit by a plane on September 11, 2001
American businessman, political aide and author, born 1928. RFK assistant during the 1960 JFK campaign, and first Associate Director of the Peace Corps. Later an executive for the DeLorean car and pharmaceutical companies
Descendant of the Yi Dynasty (Empire of Korea) is one of two pretenders to the throne of Korea. She is a second daughter of Prince Imperial Ui of Korea, a fifth son of Emperor Gojong of Korea
Army Air Corps.1st mission firebombing mission Hamm, Germany Feb, 1945. Flew 23 missions/part 8th Air Force, Rookie crew, 1st combat mission, bomber Last plane in formation to pass over the target - position known as 'Tail End Charlie'
Political aide & businessman, White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon & his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal. His intimate role in the Watergate cover-up precipitated his resignation from government
Newsmaker; was a secretary to Lt. Colonel Oliver North and a notable figure in the Iran - Contra affair. Granted immunity for testifying at the trial in 1987 and became overnight celebrity
WWII U.S. Corporal - served in the 3rd Marine Division, participating in campaigns such as Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Witnessed the iconic flag raising atop Mount Surabachi. Purple Heart recipient
City Manager of the Armored Motor Service in Dallas , Hall arranged to have two armored trucks sent to the DPD on the morning of Nov. 24 , 1963 , to act as decoys during the transfer of Oswald
Retired Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency/retired from the CIA after 30 years of running and managing intelligence operations in Central Eurasia and Latin America
Sixth grader at John J. Pershing Elementary in 1963, Haller filmed the Kennedy motorcade on Turtle Creek Boulevard. He shared his film publicly for the first time at the 50th anniversary of the assassination in 2013
Flight Steward who served on Air Force One for Kennedy through Ford. Flew JFK into Dallas, then helped tear out seats to fit the casket in after the shot. Stayed in the area with Jackie Kennedy and JFK's body during the flight back to DC.
(born 1929) is a political scientist, civil rights leader, and the W. S. Sayre Professor Emeritus of Government and Political Science at Columbia University/Most noted work is Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
Scottish Lawyer and Nationalist (born: 1925). He is best known for his part in the removal of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey in 1950. Now 94. Lives in the UK
Civilian Conservation Corps veteran, featured in history documentaries about the CCC and the Great Depression. Also one of the last living people who travelled as a hobo during the Depression
Dallas schoolgirl in 1963, Hampson saw the presidential motorcade near the corner of Main and Houston Streets. She and a friend walked to Dealey Plaza in the aftermath of the assassination
JFK - Secret Service agent; was one of those that were assigned to Dallas after the assassination for duties like guarding the Presidential limousine or further investigations
Samurai of the sky/Japanese Zero Pilot WW2/19 Victories/Public Speaker/Imperial Japanese Navy, and graduated from the service's 35th fighter pilot course/Lives @ NAGANO, Japan/http://ww2db.com/person-bio.php?person-id=777
Doug witnessed both President Kennedy's inauguration and funeral and later advocated for a local memorial to the late president that was realized in 2012
Pioneering stewardess and WWII nurse, born 1916. Special duty nurse for Air Force Gen. Hap Arnold, after having been one of Delta's first ever stewardesses from 1940-43
Former Corporal of Horse (CoH) of the Household Cavalry of the British Armed Forces. He holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd)
Witnessed the murder of David Blakely by Ruth Ellis outside the Magdala Pub in London in 1955. He was 8 years old at the time when he heard the shot that lead to Ruth Ellis, being the last woman to be hanged in Britain. He lives in the UK
British economist and the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016
WW2 Marine/Served in Iwo Jima, Bougainville, Vella Lavella & Solomon Islands Campaigns/Silver Star Recipient/95 Years old in 2019/Loves the Marine Core with a passion
Super Centenarian oldest person in Saga Prefecture, Japan. 2nd oldest person in the world born 11/20/1896. One of three people living born in the year 1896
American intelligence officer, serving as the acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency. She joined the CIA in 1985. February 2017 she was appointed by President Donald Trump as Deputy Director of the CIA, and March 2018 Director
American real estate investor, author and philanthropist from NYC. Along with his now ex-wife Jane Rosenthal, and Robert De Niro, he co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Institute. Chairman of Turtle Pond Publications
Vietnam vet, born 1943. Team leader of the UDT-11 frogmen who recovered the Apollo 11 Command Module. He opened the hatch and shook the hand of Neil Armstrong, the first out, welcoming him back home. He then scrubbed each astronaut with a disinfectant
Canadian clergyman. Since 1977, he has served as Senior Pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, a vibrant, inclusive & progressive church openly affirming for LGBT parishioners, & is one of Canada's leading gay rights activists
Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
Pioneering Gay Rights activist (1912-2002). 'Father of the Gay Rights Movement', co-founded The Mattachine Society in 1950. Also an activist for labor, communist, and Native American issues
General Counsel as well as the interim President and CEO of the NAACP in 2005 and from 2007 to 2008/Criticized George W. Bush's Social Security reform proposals & Major League Baseball's recruitment efforts of black baseball players
JFK - Motorcycle cop that rode several cars behind JFK on Nov. 22, 1963; not yet on Elm Street when JFK was shot; pictured in several photos running up the Grassy Knoll immediately after the assassination, meets James Tague, later at TSBD
B. February 16, 1920 was the first woman in the U.S. Military to be promoted to a general officer rank. She was promoted on June 11, 1970, after being appointed by President Richard Nixon on May 15, of that year.
Vietnam - Last Flight From Da Nang, pilot. Ken is the pilot of the famous 'Last Flight from Da Nang' on March 29, 1975, when World Airways owner Ed Daly took his 727-100 to Da Nang which had become Vietcong-controlled
(January 27, 1908 - May 14, 1993), Pulitzer Prize-winning editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers/Won a Pulitzer Prize for his interview with Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev/Son of publisher William Randolph Hearst
(Born 1946) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. While serving aboard the USS Canberra, Hegdahl was blown overboard off the deck of the ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and was taken as a Prisoner of War by the North Vietnamese. POW from 1967 to 1969
US Marine, 2 Vietnam tours of duty. Stationed on the USS Hornet in 1969 during it's Apollo 11 recovery, served as a guard of the crew and later,
the command module. Held a rifle at attention as Nixon welcomed the quarantined crew back
Claims the Pattinson / Gimlin 1967 Bigfoot footage a hoax, Claims to have appeared in the famous video dressed as Bigfoot, now retired and living in Yakima, Washington
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany (on June 17, 1954)
Witness to the revolt because he is one of two figures caught in an archive photo of young men hurling stones against the Soviet tanks
Super Bowl Sunday 1969 he hijacked United Airlines flight to Havana. A former Green Beret, his mission to get Fidel Castro. Reds boarded a 727 from Miami forced pilot to fly to Cuba. He had the pilot send a message, 'Tell Fidel, El Rojo is coming.'
Civil Rights/was in the forefront of the civil rights battle as he bravely stepped up to participate in the sit - in at the Woolworth?s diner. 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit in
Like witnesses Carolyn Walther and Arnold Rowland , Ruby saw two men on the sixth floor of the TSBD five minutes before President Kennedy was shot , one of whom had a rifle
WW2/79th Regiment, demolition squad, His company had 3 platoons that were involved with communications, ammunitions and engineering/Henley's regiment was headed to capture the seaport town of Cherbourg France when D-Day invasion had begun
Age 89/American teacher most notable for teaching Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School, located in New Orleans
Black WWII US Army vet (1923-2020), spent decades fighting his biased 'blue discharge' release. Finally upgraded to an honorable discharge in 2019. Died of COVID-19 in 2020
Fiona Herbert, 8th Countess of Carnarvon (also known as Lady Carnarvon) is the wife of George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon)
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon) is the great-grandson of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the man who, alongside Howard Carter, discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun
11 year old witness to the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion. Helping his dad work on the car, he saw the mushroom cloud in the distance. Survived cancer, but lost many family and friends in the area downwind of the test site
American photojournalist, born 1927. Covered the Korean War, presidents, Krushchev, sports, NASA, and more. Named one of AP's Top 10 Civil Rights photographers. Took iconic photos of Rosa Parks' and Martin Luther King's arrests
Talk Show Host, Philanthropy, Author, Adviser
Julia Roberts played her in ?Charlie Wilson?s War?, but the real-life Texan is far more interesting than any movie could capture
Col, U.S. Army (Ret.) is an author and retired counterintelligence officer with extensive interrogation experience in three wars (Vietnam, Operation JUST CAUSE, and Operation DESERT STORM/Fall of Saigon evacuee
(1909-1999) Philatelic writer, collector, and dealer. Known for books Nassau Street: a Quarter Century of Stamp Dealing (1960), Fun and Profit in Stamp Collecting (1962), Stories to Collect Stamps by (1968), and many more
JFK - Secret Service agent that was in the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; began his career under Eisenhower; also traveled to China with Nixon; pictured with LBJ
Political scientist, Presidential advisor (born 1933). Speechwriter on Eisenhower's White House Staff, later served and advised Nixon, Ford, and Carter
Along with her husband , Charles , Beatrice was sitting on the grass on the north side of Elm St .on Nov. 22 , 1963 , in Dallas when they heard two shots . They thought the shots came from the TSBD
One of the many survivors and eyewitnesses to the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He treated survivors as a medical doctor and wrote about the effects of radiation on the human body. He is now 94
US Politician, Georgia (1823-82) Confederate Gov. of Georgia 1862-65, US House 1875-77, US Senate 1877-82. Named 'The Peerless Orator.' Close friend to Jefferson Davis who spoke at Hill's Statue dedication in Atlanta after his death
UFO figure (1919-2004). Wife in the couple that claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1961. The first widely reported alien abduction, it led to a popular book and TV movie
Born: 1932. Ex Secret Service Agent in President Kennedy's motorcade during the assassination. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963
USAF, (Ret) Original Tuskegee Airman/One key event took place while working in crash & rescue. During one aircraft incident, heroically helped remove, then Col B. O. Davis Jr, from his damaged plane upon landing at locbourne Air Force Base
JFK - Dallas police officer who went to the TSBD where he and 2 others found the shooter's perch and 3 spent shell casings; then assigned to the J.D. Tippit site, from there to Texas Theatre where he and other officers apprehended Oswald
A member of the Dallas Police Dept.in 1963 he , ten minutes after the assassination , directed attention to the second upper-right-hand corner window of the TSBD from where he believed the shots came
German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)
One of the participants in the Up documentary film series, that follows participants every 7 years starting in 7 Up in 1964 when they were 7 years old. Latest installment was 63 Up in 2019
BBC engineer who worked in television in it's early years and was part of a production team who transmitted the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on TV screens in 1953
One of the two women who as teenagers were the focus of the activity during the Enfield Haunting. She is now 52 and lives in the UK. Now the subject of the film 'The Conjuring 2'
Hoffman was Director of Nursing at Parkland Memorial Hospital when new their new facility opened on Harry Hines Boulevard in 1954. While attending a conference in San Antonio, she saw President Kennedy during his visit to the city on November 21, 1963
Centenarian and an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is noted for his recordings of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn
US supercentenarian (1889-2000). Born to a Union Civil War vet, named after the new President, lived most of his life as an Oklahoma farmer, working well past 100. Once the world's oldest living man, now listed as the 65th oldest man to have ever lived
One of the last survivors from the sinking of The RMS Laconia in 1942. The RMS Laconia was struck and sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat off the coast of west Africa. He was a Merchant seaman at the time and is now 90
USN Test Pilot School Instructor/Chief, Human Systems Engineering Branch/USAF Test Pilot School Academic Instructor/Participated as a geophysicist on a remote field expedition to the Antarctic
JFK - Assassination witness on 22 November 1963; stood at her window at the Texas School Book Depository and watched the motorcade as the fatal shots rang out; can be seen in picture taken a few seconds after Kennedy was shot
22 year old Morehouse College student,later a SNCC voter registration worker in the mid-1960s. Freedom Rider from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi as part of a May 24, 1961 Freedom Ride. He was arrested the following day in Jackson for his invo
Husband of Anna Mitchell-Hedges. In 1924, Anna Mitchell-Hedges was in southern Belize, Central America when she claims to have found 'The Crystal Skull'.
One of the last survivors of 'The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake'. Born in 1906, she is now 107 and lives in Santa Clara, California. She is one of three remaining survivors of the 1906 earthquake
The oldest person in Britain, now 112. Born in 1903 in Dulwich, London. She was a concert pianist and was close friends with Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator. She lives in the coastal town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight
The Ohio State University police officer who took down the alleged assailant in Monday?s attack on the Columbus campus is being praised by authorities for his quick actions, he fatally shot suspect Abdul Razak Ali Artan
JFK - FBI agent that was blamed for JFK's death by Hoover as Hosty was responsible for handling the Oswald case *before* Kennedy was assassinated and saw no reason to detaon Oswald for that day
Volunteered in 1937. Served as a Transport driver. Granted Spanish honorary citizenship on July 9, 2009. One of the fewer than 25 Americans still alive from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Born: 1916
American political aide, White House Press Secretary. She is the daughter of former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and former Arkansas first lady Janet Huckabee
One of the last survivors of The Halifax Explosion, which occured on on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the world's largest man-made explosion. She is 101 and lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
KRLD radio TV newsman/broadcast television's 1st murder on CBS from police garage when Jack Ruby shot Lee Oswald, interviewed slain assassin's mother. Was Warren Commission witness, & covered Jack Ruby's murder trial & finally his death
One of the last crew members and survivors from the sinking of RMS Lancastria in 1940 during WW2. He is now 93 and lives in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, UK
Photographer that covered JFK's visit to Fort Worth, catching the eye of the President as Hughes tripped in front of him, and later one of the very few who covered Oswald's funeral
Worked for Winston Churchill during the Second World War;
Winston Churchill's former secretary;
Churchill War Rooms typist:
is living in Guildford, Surrey (United Kingdom)
Great granddaughter of Maria Rasputin. Maria Rasputin was the daughter of the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin. Laurence Huot-Solovieff is one of the four great-grandchildren of Grigory Rasputin. She now lives in Paris, France
JFK: Catholic priest who narrated President John F. Kennedy's funeral Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington for a worldwide TV and radio audience
Trumpgate/Former White House aide & assistant to former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during presidency of Donald Trump. Hutchinson testified on June 28, 2022, at public hearings of US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Trumpgate/Possible hired by either Rudy or Trump though Rudy to surveil Yovnovitch. This from documents provided by Les Parnas. Hyde is now running for U.S. House seat in Connecticut
WW2 Iwo Jima Marine/Combat engineer, had the job of sneaking up and hurling satchels loaded with explosives into Japanese machine-gun nests and caves/Witness Iwo Jima flag raising
Last known surviving Navy groundcrewman at the Hindenburg crash in 1937. A veteran of the Navy's blimp program in the 1920s/1930s, and a WWII veteran. Died at 94 in 2005
Polish Army in the Polish-Soviet War.(1919-1921) Lives in United States (New York). Born: 02/04/1903. Retired Chemist. At age 111, he is the Oldest Living Man in the world and one of the few supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity
Artist/teenager in 1963, Near corner of Elm & Houston streets time of assassination. Consultant to Oliver Stone film JFK. Photographed Key figures in film & later donated many of the pictures to Sixth Floor Museum
Former Army Sniper during the War on Terror. 75th Ranger Regiment. He was the very first African American sniper to serve in his Battalion. Author of Way Of The Reaper and the owner of HardShoot
JFK - the Texas state trooper who guarded and drove Vice President Lyndon Johnson in the presidintial motercade on November 22, 1963 the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
GBE, CB, (27 September 1899 - 24 April 1993), Military Assistant Secretary to Winston Churchill's war cabinet and later a distinguished broadcasting executive, serving as the Director-General of the BBC from 1952-1960
Holocaust Survivor/Lecturer/Author/Was sent to the camp Ostroweic and subsequently transported to Auschwitz (Poland), Birkenau (Poland) & Mathausen-Gusen II (Austria). Americans liberated him from Mathausen-Gusen II on May 5, 1945
Jeffrey Jamar: retired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge (SAC), who was in charge of an FBI squad in the 1993 Waco siege. Jamar retired from the FBI in December 1994 after 25 years in service
WWII: Chief of Pharmacy Service with the Flying Tigers, 14th U.S. Army Air Forces. 95th Stationary Field Hospital in Kunming, the capital of the Hunan Province
Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Had been working in sales for several American businesses and some government interests as a translator. Two days after his escape with just the clothes on his back, the Communists took over
Second special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. He was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, soon after the Saturday Night Massacre of October 19-20, 1973, that resulted in the dismissal of his predecessor, Archibald Cox
Pilot in World War I and as an operations officer in World War II as well as commanding Officer of the 446th Bomb Group at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth/Participated in drafting the original Civil Air regulations
Civil Rights Movement/Political and civic leader and the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous British civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards. He is a direct descendant of Brunel and president of The Brunel Museum
One of the last known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. She is now 99 years old and lives in a care center in Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
Working under the name ' Ron McAlister ' , he was a reporter for KBOX Radio in ' 63 . He covered the scene at Parkland Hospital and in '64 the Ruby trial
WW2 at D-Day/Enlisting Army on 4/1/1943/Sergeant 626th Engineer Light Equip. Co., JOB moving, bulldozing or rebuilding anything & everything, from small pillboxes to entire towns/Meritorious Unit Award/ Philippine Liberation Service Ribbon
Chief psychologist at Dallas Veterans Hospital in 1963, Filmed JFK motorcade at exit of Dallas Love Field & later captured rare color scenes of the Trade Mart building and marquee from Stemmons Freeway. Donated film to Sixth Floor Museum
Attended the grand opening of the De La Warr Pavilion building in 1935. The Art Deco building is located on the seafront at Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, UK. Designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn. He is now 87 and lives in the UK
Member of the DPD Bill was among the first to greet Pres. Kennedy on his arrival at Dallas Love Field on Nov. 22 , 1963 . His assignment was to secure perimeter of Air Force One
JFK US Army/marched in the funeral procession for President John F. Kennedy on Monday, November 25, 1963. An employee of the Internal Revenue Service during the Eisenhower to Clinton administrations
Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge worker, born in 1925. Worked as a 'Calutron Girl' during WWII, unknowingly helping to produce Uranium for the Hiroshima bomb
'Hidden Figure' African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the US aeronautics and space programs with early application of digital electronic computers at NASA
Journalist and Vegas PR career, born 1933. Korean War vet, guarded MacArthur. Raced cars, friends with James Dean. Danced in 'Jailhouse Rock' title number with Elvis, who became a friend since they shared an interest in martial arts
Last surviving inhabitant of St Kildan Island, Scotland that was evacuated in 1930, 84 years ago. She is now 91 and lives in a nursing home in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Photographer Washington Post, Johnston was working for Austin bureau of United Press International in 1963. In basement of Dallas police headquarters, captured image of Lee Harvey Oswald approximately one second before he was fatally shot
One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana), the deadliest tornado in American history, which occurred on March 18, 1925
U.S. Secret Service agent assigned White House detail during Kennedy years/Guarded Kennedys at Hyannis Port during the summer of 1963. At the time of the assassination, he was guarding young John F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C. In 1964
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
Politician & leader of the Civil Rights movement. 1st African American elected to Senate & 1st southern black female elected to the US House of Representatives. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom
Grandson of James Joyce, the famous Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He lives in the French town of La Flotte, on the Île de Ré, off the Atla
Supercentenarian, born on 10 June 1906. Longest-lived validated person in the history of Poland, currently the 28th oldest validated person of all time, 3rd oldest living person, and the last known person born in 1906
Apollo structural engineer who began work on the program in 1963. He was one of five engineers in charge of constructing the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), which still holds the record for largest single story building
College student in 1963, Kadleck worked part-time at the Terminal Annex building in Dealey Plaza. Standing at the corner of Main and Houston Streets, he heard shots fired at the presidential limousine
Was a student at Kent State University, Ohio, when he was shot in the back while lying on the ground and paralyzed for life by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 while walking to class, nor protesting
JFK/Worker at time of assassination at the school book depository/Worker there 2 years starting August 24th 1962/Knew Oswald only by site/Testimony of Frankie Kaiser was taken @ 3:40 p.m, on April 8, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney
American-born Hirsohima survivor, born 1938. Staying with his grandparents in Japan less than a mile away when the bomb hit. Returned to the US in 1948 and became a computer engineer
Spy/Central Intelligence Agency employee during the Cold War/1977, he stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual. Afterwards, resigned from his job, flew to Greece, & sold the manual to the Russian Embassy in Athens in return for $3,000
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
Officer US Army Reserve (RET.) Notable for having commanded forces that operated Abu Ghraib & other prisons in Iraq in 2003 & 2004, at time of scandal related to torture & prisoner abuse. Commanded 3 prisons in Iraq & forces that ran them
Teenager see in iconic 1967 anti-war photo by Marc Riboud, clasping a flower and gazing at bayonet-wielding soldiers. Photo was in Dec 1969 edition of Look magazine under title 'The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet.'
'JFK'/Social studies teacher Bryan Adams High School in 1963. Member of the Dallas Police Reserves, spent the weekend of the assassination at police headquarters. Was working crowd control on Commerce Street at the time of Oswald shooting
Freelance UPI photographer & contributing Time-Life & People Magazine photographer, Katz covered every presidential election from 1960 to 2008. Katz photographed Jack Ruby & part of Life team that investigated findings of Warren Commission
American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a supposed July 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr
Radium Girl (Born: 1906) who in 1917, contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey. She is now 107. Lives in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Supercentenarian (1893-2005). One of the last living women voters of the 1920 election. Also witnessed a flight demonstration by the Wright Brothers in Indiana as a young woman
Met JFK in 1960/attended his speech at Hotel Texas on 11/22/1963/In following years maintained close ties to LBJ & John Connally families/Air Force Officer Korean War/Worked in the office of Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn
Dallas Times Herald photographer who took recognized picture of 12-year - old student's tearful reaction to news of JFK?s death in November 1963/Also took pictures of Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby & attorney Melvin Belli for Life magazine & beyond
1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident a missile equipped with a nuclear warhead exploded in Damascus, Arkansas, in 1980. The silo was part of the 374th Strategic Missile Sq./He entered launch complex that day for readings of fuel concentrations
Daughter of George C. Wallace, former governor of Alabama who became known as one of America's most ardent segregationists of the 1960's/She is Currently a Civil Rights Activist & Author & Speaker
Retired engine driver who drove the Flying Scotsman, one of the world's most famous locomotives from 1956 until it was retired in 1963. He is now 83 and lives in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Born 24 November 1908 electrical welder from Plymouth, England during the Second World War. She is notable for being the first woman in Great Britain to be given equal pay.
To receive MOH/Led several helicopter trips to help evacuate wounded soldiers near Duc Pho & returned to LZ without additional aerial support to rescue stranded soldiers pinned down by enemy fire. Helped save the lives of 40 soldiers
First woman named as US House of Representatives chaplain/Rear Adm./Bronze Star recipient, will replace Rev. Pat Conroy who has served in the ceremonial role since 2011/ Presbyterian minister, entered active duty in the US Navy in 1986
At the age of 116, is currently the world's oldest living man/person. The last person left living born in the year 1897. He now lives in Kyoto prefecture, Japan
British Olympic decathlete who was later an author, corporate director, corporate board member and specialist in Olympic marketing and sports development. Current British national pentathlon record holder
Commander William Donald Aelian 'Bill' King, DSO & Bar, DSC (born 23 June 1910), is a retired British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop around the world yacht race
Newscaster KBOX radio 1963, went live on the air moments after assassination & fired for it/Witnessed Oswald's shooting. Later, he covered the Jack Ruby trial/WW2 POW Corregidor/Wrote 'Alamo of the Pacific'
13th US V. President (1786-53). Rumored gay partner of future Pres. James Buchanan. US Congressman/Senator. 45 days as Pierce's V.Pres. then died of tuberculosis. Only inauguration oath ever given on foreign soil, in Cuba for TB treatment
Bloodline/Granddaughter of Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King/Daughter of Arndrea & Martin Luther King III; Spoke March 24, 2018 at the March for Our Life's Rally in Washington DC
American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana U. Best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), as well as the Kinsey scale
The last man alive who built the Roanoke Star, the world's largest freestanding illuminated man-made star, and actually switched it on for the first time on November 23, 1949
Possible UFO abductee, as a 14 year old, in a well-known event on 9/1/69 in Berkshire County, MA. Other locals had their own stories, one other child abductee claiming to have seen her on the ship with him, though they were then strangers
Former CIA analyst/case officer, former Sr. investigator Senate Foreign Relations Committee, & former counter-terrorism consultant ABC News & author. 1st U.S. official to confirm use of waterboarding Al-Qaeda prisoners as interrogation technique
JFK - USAF Pipe Band; played at various events in the Kennedy presidency, including the visit of the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Sean Lemass in October 1963 (where Kirkpatrick met JFK) and the funeral of JFK
JFK - Secret Service agent, Vice-Presidential (VPD) detail LBJ, lead agent for Lady Bird Johnson. Was in the VP follow-up car on November 22, 1963, in the Kennedy Dallas motorcade
Surviving a plane crash in 1963, she spent 49 days of winter in the Yukon before being rescued; author of 'Hey, I'm Alive' about her ordeal; appeared on To Tell The Truth and the Mike Douglas Show
Received the 2017 National Jewish Book Award for Lioness. First woman to carry a Torah to the Western Wall. Former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America which voted to ordain women as rabbis and cantors in 1983
(born 1918) is a retired Israeli scientist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in Israel. The case of Klingberg is regarded one of the most destructive spy scandals in the history of the State of Israel
US WWII vet, born 1916. Horse cavalry in 1934, called back for WWII in the 331st Infantry regiment in the 83rd division as a Master Sergeant. Landed in Normandy couple weeks after D-Day, fought through Europe. Rode a horse in FDR's 1937 Inaugural Parade
Knapp was an 18 yr. old member of the police line-up at which William Whaley identified Oswald as the man he had driven from the Greyhound bus station minutes after the assassination
One of the last survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - 53 3/4 Hotdogs, Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Contest; in 2004 he ate 69 Krystal hamburgers, and in 2005, ate 67 hamburgers in eight minutes. Speed-eating contest in Hong Kong in August 2005, Kobayashi consume
German-Peruvian biologist, born in Peru to German emigrants, who was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest
Juliana C. Young Koo is a Chinese American diplomat who served as first head of the UN Protocol Department, supercentenarian and third wife of diplomat and politician Wellington Koo
Holocaust Survivor/Nazis stormed into the Latvian city where he lived with his family, and penned the Jewish population into a ghetto/Deported to the Stutthof work camp/Escaped 1945/Husband of Eva Moses Kor
Survivor of the Hartford Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States
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
Israeli supercentenarian and recognized as the oldest man alive (Born: 1903) A confectioner by profession, he experienced World War I as a child, and World War II as an adult. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to Israel. Now 112
Respondent in Supreme Court case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier(1988), that held public school student newspapers are subject to a lower level of 1A protection