The song is heard in a choral rendition by Ken Darby in the 1968 John Wayne film, The Green Berets, based on Moore's book.

* John Wayne Gacy, a convicted serial killer also known as the " Killer Clown "

* The Shootist – John Wayne ’ s last film that was shot on location at the Krebbs-Peterson House

John Wayne is a graceful man and so are some of the great ball players ... but, of course, they don't run the risk of being called sissies.

* Worst Casting: John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror

In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film.

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

In 1962 Hawks made Hatari !, again with John Wayne as a big game hunter in Africa.

Hawks's final two films were both Western remakes of Rio Bravo starring John Wayne.

Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit.

In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent supporting roles in such films as The Comancheros ( 1961 ), John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 ), and Donovan's Reef ( 1963 ), all starring John Wayne, with Marvin's roles getting larger with each film.

He played one of Lee Marvin's villainous henchmen in the 1962 John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, with James Stewart and John Wayne.

* 1907 – John Wayne, American actor ( d. 1979 )

* 1942 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer ( d. 1994 )

Relevant New Age works include the writings of James Redfield, Eckhart Tolle, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Christopher Hills, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, John Holland, Gary Zukav, Wayne Dyer, and Rhonda Byrne.

Among other things, the song voices disgust for considering Elvis Presley and John Wayne standard American icons.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

* 2-Michael Wayne ( Michael Morrison ), 68, film producer ; eldest son of John Wayne, heart failure as the result of complications from lupus

In the 1962 John Wayne movie Hatari !, an invention to catch monkeys by character Pockets, played by Red Buttons, is described as a " Rube Goldberg.

* In the John Wayne movie Big Jake, the Texas Rangers were traveling in REOs, which were later destroyed by the bandits.

* In the 1993 Denis Leary song " Asshole ", Leary states he is " going to get the Duke ( John Wayne ), John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin, Sam Peckinpah and a case of whiskey then drive down to Texas " before being cut off by a bandmate and getting called an asshole.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1947 – John Stocker, Canadian voice actor

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )

* 1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor

* 1959 – John C. McGinley, American actor

* 1944 – John Holmes, American porn actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1978 – John Buffalo Mailer, American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist

* 1934 – John Standing, English actor

* 1926 – John Derek, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1935 – John Cazale, American actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1963 – John Stamos, American actor and singer

* 1949 – John Savage, American actor

* 1969 – John Witt, American baseball player, author, and actor

* 1973 – Matthew John Armstrong, American actor

* 1977 – John Hensley, American actor

* 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1949 – John Shea, American actor

* 1958 – John D ' Aquino, American actor

* 1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor and comedian ( d. 2011 )

* 2002 – John Agar, American actor ( b. 1921 )

John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.

In the late 1950s she shared an exchange which was called " la croisée de deux sillages " (" the crossing of two wakes ") with actor and true-crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France who was working on a New Wave film with Jean Seberg.