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Francis Mae Duffy | SP 5"x7" |
Francis Mae Duffy was one of the oldest survivors of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. She was 11 months old at the time, and died at the age of 101 years old in 2007. Her secret for longetivity: "Eat applesauce every day." |
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Melvin Dummar | SP 5"x7" |
Melvin Earl Dummar is a Utah man who earned national attention when he claimed to have saved reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes in a Nevada desert in 1967, and to have been awarded part of Hughes' vast estate. Dummar's claims resulted in series of court battles which have all ruled against Dummar, and determined he had forged the will. Dummar's story was adapted into the Academy Award winning film Melvin and Howard (1980). |
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Bernard Goetz | SP 5"x7" |
Goetz, known as the "subway vigilante," shot four young African-American youths on a subway in New York in 1984. His defense was that they approached him for money and he felt he was going to be robbed. He was acquitted of attempted manslaughter, but convicted of carrying a concealed weapon. He served 120 days in jail. The case caused a national furor. On one side, he was accused of being a racist; on the opposite side, he was celebrated as a crusader for justice, especially among the many that had faced similar situations on New York's infamous subways. |  |
James Leavelle | SP 5"x7" |
Leavelle is the Dallas, Texas police detective, dressed in a light tan suit and Stetson hat, most recognizable for his stunned look when alleged presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. |  |
Charles Van Doren | SP 5"x8" |
Charles Van Doren, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren and novelist and writer Dorothy Van Doren, is a noted American intellectual. He is most well known for his involvement in the television quiz show scandals of the 1950s. Van Doren confessed that he had been given the right answers by the producers of the 1956 TV game show Twenty One, whose producers used his onscreen appeal to attract more viewers. He became notorious as a result, and has refused most interviews or public comment about the scandal. He has since worked as an editor, writer and college professor. |
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