The Actors Name Game, Last is First

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AnnE RicE (author)

ElizabetH EckforD

Elizabeth Eckford (born October 4, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The integration came as a result of the 1954 United States Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education. Eckford's public ordeal was captured by press photographers on the morning of September 4, 1957, after she was prevented from entering the school by the Arkansas National Guard. A dramatic snapshot by Will Counts of the Arkansas Democrat showed the young girl being followed and threatened by an angry white mob; this and other photos of the day's startling events were circulated around the US and the world by the press.

Counts's image was the unanimous selection by the Pulitzer jury for a 1958 Pulitzer Prize, but since the story had earned then-rival Arkansas Gazette two other Pulitzer Prizes already, the Pulitzer board awarded the prize to another photographer for a pleasant photograph of a two-year-old boy in Washington, D.C. A different photo taken by Counts of Alex Wilson, a black reporter for the Memphis Tri-State Defender being beaten by the angry mob in Little Rock the same day, was chosen as the "News Picture of the Year" for 1957 by the National Press Photographers Association. This image by Counts prompted President Dwight D. Eisenhower to send federal troops to Little Rock.

Eckford only spent one year at Little Rock Central High where she and the other black students were tormented throughout. In the years since, she has struggled through life, and twice attempted suicide. She was subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

On the morning of January 1, 2003, one of Eckford's two sons, Erin Eckford, age 26, was shot and killed by police in Little Rock. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that the police officers had unsuccessfully tried to disarm him with a beanbag round after he had fired several shots from his rifle. When Eckford pointed his rifle towards them, the police officers shot him. His mother feared that his death was "suicide by police". Erin, she said, had suffered from mental illness but had been off his prescribed medication for several years. The newspaper later reported that prosecutors investigating the fatal shooting had decided that the police officers concerned were justified in shooting Eckford.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

AnnE RicE (author)

Interesting story... and finally the Chindog connection!

ElizabetH EckforD

HowarD DullY (Lobotomy Survivor)

American memoirist who was one of the youngest survivors of the transorbital lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old.

Dully received international attention in 2005, following the broadcasting of his story on National Public Radio. Subsequently, in 2007, he published a New York Times Best Seller memoir, My Lobotomy, a story of the hardships of his lobotomy, co-authored by Charles Fleming.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

ElizabetH EckforD

HowarD DullY (Lobotomy Survivor)

DonalD Norton YateS (Army Air Force Lt. General)


1909 - 1993 Yates was the Air Force general who helped select June 6, 1944 as the date for the allied invasion of Europe. He was the chief meteorologist on Eisenhower's staff. It turned out that the date he chose was the only date that month where the English Channel could have been successfully crossed. He went on to become the chief meteorologist for the newly formed US Air Force, and was the commander of the US Air Force Missile Test Center at Patrick Air Base in Florida.

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DonalD Norton YateS (Army Air Force Lt. General)

DreD ScotT

Dred Scott (1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision". The Scotts claimed that they should be granted freedom because Dred had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal, and laws in those jurisdictions said that slave holders gave up their rights to slaves if they stayed for an extended period.

In a landmark case, the United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Scott's temporary residence in free territory outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation, because the Missouri Compromise, which made that territory free by prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30′ parallel, was unconstitutional because it "deprives citizens of their [slave] property without due process of law".

Although Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and congressional authority by this decision, it aroused public outrage, deepened sectional tensions between the northern and southern states, and hastened the eventual explosion of their differences into the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments—nullified the decision. The Scotts were manumitted by private arrangement in May 1857. Dred Scott died of tuberculosis a year later.

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Originally Posted by allenb12

DreD ScotT

DonalD J. TrumP (45th and 47th President of the United States)

Born in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became the president of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it the Trump Organization, and began acquiring and building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He launched side ventures, many licensing the Trump name. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality television show The Apprentice, bolstering his fame as a billionaire. A political outsider, Trump won the 2016 presidential election easily defeating Hillary Clinton who continues to dispute the election results.

After defeating Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, Trump was sentenced to a penalty-free discharge, and two felony indictments against him were dismissed. To date, all charges, politically motivated or not, against President Trump have been defeated. In 2025, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $5.1 billion and ranked him the 700th wealthiest person in the world.

In 1987, Trump placed full-page advertisements in major newspapers expressing his views on foreign policy and how to eliminate the federal budget deficit. To date, his views remain largely unchanged as evidenced in YouTube videos still available on the streaming platform.

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DonalD J. TrumP (45th and 47th President of the United States)

DaviD PetraeuS

David Petraeus (born 7 November 1952) is a retired United States Army general and public official. He served as the fourth director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September 2011, until his resignation in November 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 2010 to July 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 2008 to June 2010, and as commanding general, Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I) from February 2007 to September 2008. As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq.

Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 1983. He later served as assistant professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy and also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University. Since 2022, he has taught courses in international relations at Yale University as a Kissinger Senior Fellow of the university's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.]

Petraeus has repeatedly stated that he has no plans to run for elected political office. On 23 June 2010, president Barack Obama nominated Petraeus to succeed General Stanley McChrystal as commanding general of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, technically a step down from his position as Commander of United States Central Command, which oversees the military efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Egypt.

On 30 June 2011, Petraeus was unanimously confirmed as the director of the CIA by the U.S. Senate 94–0. Petraeus relinquished command of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on 18 July 2011, and retired from the U.S. Army on 31 August 2011. On 9 November 2012, he resigned from his position as director of the CIA, citing his extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell, which was reportedly discovered in the course of an FBI investigation. In January 2015, officials reported the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors had recommended bringing felony charges against Petraeus for allegedly providing classified information to Broadwell while serving as director of the CIA. Eventually, Petraeus pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information. He was later sentenced to two years of probation and fined $100,000 for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified material he gave to Broadwell.

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Originally Posted by allenb12

DaviD PetraeuS

StepheN A. DouglaS (US Senator)

As a U.S. senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the pivotal Lincoln–Douglas debates. He was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850, which sought to avert a sectional crisis; to further deal with the volatile issue of extending slavery into the territories, Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowed to determine whether to permit slavery within its borders. This attempt to address the issue was rejected by both pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates. Douglas was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature but a forceful and dominant figure in politics.

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StepheN A. DouglaS (US Senator)

NancY SinatrA

Nancy Sinatra (born June 8, 1940)[5] is an American singer, actress, film producer and author. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra (née Barbato) and is known for her 1965 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".

Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer in November 1957 with an appearance on her father's ABC television variety series The Frank Sinatra Show but initially achieved success only in Europe and Japan. In early 1966 she had a transatlantic number-one hit with "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". A TV promo clip from the era features Sinatra in high boots, accompanied by colorfully dressed go-go dancers, in what is now considered an iconic Swinging Sixties look. The song was written by Lee Hazlewood, who wrote and produced most of her hits and sang with her on several duets. As with all of Sinatra's 1960s hits, "Boots" featured Billy Strange as arranger and conductor.

Between early 1966 and early 1968, Sinatra charted on Billboard's Hot 100 with 14 titles, 10 of which reached the Top 40. In addition to "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", defining recordings during this period include "Sugar Town", "Love Eyes", the transatlantic 1967 number one "Somethin' Stupid" (a duet with her father), two versions of the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood – including "Summer Wine", "Jackson", "Lady Bird" and "Some Velvet Morning" – and a non-single 1966 cover of the Cher hit "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". In 1971 Sinatra and Hazlewood achieved their first collaborative success in the UK singles chart with the no. 2 hit "Did You Ever?", and the 2005 UK no. 3 hit by Audio Bullys, "Shot You Down", sampled Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang".

Between 1964 and 1968, Sinatra appeared in several feature films, co-starring with Peter Fonda in Roger Corman's biker-gang movie The Wild Angels (1966) and alongside Elvis Presley in the musical drama Speedway (1968). Frank and Nancy Sinatra played a fictional father and daughter in the 1965 comedy Marriage on the Rocks.

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Originally Posted by allenb12

StepheN A. DouglaS (US Senator)

NancY SinatrA

AlaN YounG (actor)


1919 - 2016 Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the TV series Mr. Ed. He also was the voice of the Disney cartoon character Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years. During the 40's and 50's he had his own variety-comedy sketch shows on radio and television, The Alan Young Show. He appeared in a number of feature films beginning in 1946, including The Time Machine in 1960, and several Disney productions in the 1980's. He died at age 96 and was buried at sea.

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Originally Posted by chindog

AlaN YounG (actor)

GrahaM NasH (Musician)

Of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fame. English-American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Nash initially met both David Crosby and Stephen Stills in 1966 during a Hollies US tour. On a subsequent visit to the US in 1968, he was more formally introduced to Crosby by mutual friend Cass Elliott in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Nash left the Hollies to form a new group with Crosby and Stills. Nash, nicknamed "Willy" by his bandmates, has been described as the glue that keeps their often-fragile alliances together.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

GrahaM NasH (Musician)

MoE HowarD (actor)


1897 - 1975 Howard was famous for his role in the Three Stooges. He became interested in acting during his school years, and would often play hooky to attend vaudeville shows at the theater. After graduating high school, he got a job with Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn as an errand boy, and soon began getting bit parts in movies. Most of his performances there were lost when a 1910 fire burned the studio and their film archives. In 1909 he met Ted Healy, who would later impact his career. In 1914, he and his brother Shemp had an act in a minstrel show where they performed in blackface. In 1922, he joined Ted Healy's act in the vaudeville circuit. At one performance, he saw his brother Shemp in the audience and yelled at him from the stage. Shemp responded by heckling Moe, and their back and forth bickering amused the audience. Healy immedietly hired Shemp to join the act. Moe "retired" in 1925 and became a real estate agent. His brother Shemp continued to work as one of Healy's stooges without Moe in the act, and was soon joined by Larry Fine. In 1929, Moe rejoined the act, and that was the first performance of the stooges with Moe, Shemp, and Larry. In 1930, they left Healy behind, and struck out on their own. Shemp left the group in 1933 to work on his own at Vitagraph Studios. When Shemp left the group, Moe's other brother Jerome, known as Curly, joined the trio. In 1934, they signed with Columbia Studios, where they worked until 1957. After show business, Moe went back into real estate, with occasional work in bit parts and cameos. Moe died of lung cancer at age 77.

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MoE HowarD (actor)

EmilY DavisoN

Emily Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race.

Davison grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal Holloway College, London, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, before taking jobs as a teacher and governess. She joined the WSPU in November 1906 and became an officer of the organisation and a chief steward during marches. She soon became known in the organisation for her militant action; her tactics included breaking windows, throwing stones, setting fire to postboxes, planting bombs and, on three occasions, hiding overnight in the Palace of Westminster—including on the night of the 1911 census. Her funeral on 14 June 1913 was organised by the WSPU. A procession of 5,000 suffragettes and their supporters accompanied her coffin and 50,000 people lined the route through London; her coffin was then taken by train to the family plot in Morpeth, Northumberland.

Davison was a staunch feminist and passionate Christian, and considered that socialism was a moral and political force for good. Much of her life has been interpreted through the manner of her death. She gave no prior explanation for what she planned to do at the Derby and the uncertainty of her motives and intentions has affected how she has been judged by history. Several theories have been put forward, including accident, suicide or an attempt to pin a suffragette flag to the king's horse.

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Originally Posted by allenb12

EmilY DavisoN

YurI NosenkO (Alleged KGB Defector)

Controversy arose over whether he was a genuine defector or a KGB "plant." As a result, he was detained by the CIA for over three years. Eventually, he was deemed a true defector. After his release, he became an American citizen and worked as a consultant and lecturer for the CIA.

Nosenko testified that the KGB had no involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald during his time in the USSR and had not even interviewed the former Marine radar operator, as he was deemed "abnormal."

After Nosenko was allowed to defect to the United States, Richard Helms, suspecting that he was a false defector, persuaded Earl Warren not to allow him to testify before the Warren Commission, which was investigating the assassination at the time. However, in 1978, Nosenko testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), though the committee members ultimately found him to be unreliable.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

YurI NosenkO (Alleged KGB Defector)

IaN OgilvY (actor)


Born 1943 Ogilvy is best known for his portrayal of Simon Templar in the TV series Return of the Saint. He assumed the role following the character's portrayal by Roger Moore.