ROSS SIMPSON

Clinton (Clint) Eastwood Jr. is 89 today.

Clint Eastwood gained fame as an iconic actor in such classic
Western films as A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly (1967) and as Detective Harry Callahan in the
Dirty Harry franchise beginning in 1971. He later became a
renowned director, receiving the Academy Awards for Best
Director and Best Picture for his films Unforgiven (1992) and 
Million Dollar Baby (2004). 

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Statue of Nathan Hale in City Hall Park,
New York.

It was on this day in 1975.

President Gerald Ford (center) is pushed into his limousine after
Sara Jane Moore (below) took a shot at him as he was leaving the
Post Street entrance of the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco.

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Sara Jane Moore was a political radical, a follower of Marxism.

 Sara Jane Moore (Kahn) became 88 in February.