* 1946 – Ron Kovic, American activist

Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.

In Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989 ) Tom Cruise portrays disenchanted Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic who, wounded in action and wheel-chair bound, leads rallies against the war.

Fonda had in mind to make a film about the Vietnam War inspired by her friendship with Ron Kovic, a paraplegic Vietnam War Veteran, who she met in an antiwar rally.

At that time Ron Kovic had recently completed his autobiographical book Born on the Fourth of July which would later become an Oscar-winning motion picture of the same name directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise as Kovic.

* Ron Kovic – Vietnam veteran, anti-war activist, author ==

Born on the Fourth of July ( ISBN 1-888451-78-5 ) is the best selling autobiography of Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist.

The book was adapted into a 1989 Academy Award winning film of the same name co-written by Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic, starring Tom Cruise as Kovic.

" — Ron Kovic, on writing his autobiography.

* Ron Kovic, author, Vietnam War veteran

Many veterans of Vietnam, including U. S. Senator John Kerry, and disabled veteran Ron Kovic spoke out against the Vietnam War on their return to the United States.

Ron Kovic was also nominated for an Academy Award for best screen play.

In 1988 Ron Kovic was a Jesse Jackson delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.

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" Ron Kovic Reborn ", profile from the Independent Media Institute, June 20, 2003.

*" Ron Kovic Vietnam Veteran ", Heroism Project profile.

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-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.

The music to all four films was composed and conducted by Ron Goodwin and is still played on radio today.

* Ron Borges is a sports columnist and former long-time columnist for The Boston Globe.

( Ron is the Spanish word for rum ).

Mark Bortz holds the record for most Bear playoff appearances, with 13 between 1983 and 1994, and is followed by Kevin Butler, Dennis Gentry, Dan Hampton, Jay Hilgenberg, Steve McMichael, Ron Rivera, Mike Singletary, and Keith Van Horne, who have each played in 12 playoff games.

Dianetics is a set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body which was created by L. Ron Hubbard and is practiced by followers of Scientology.

Rhongomyniad (" spear " + " striker, slayer ") is also first mentioned in Culhwch, although only in passing ; it appears as simply Ron (" spear ") in Geoffrey's Historia.

David is the son of former club chairman Ron Evans ( 1988 – 1992 ).

* 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

The Republican congressman for Texas's 14th district, Ron Paul, is a proponent of the Austrian School.

Historian Ron Chernow is of the opinion that his frustrations in dealing with government officials during this conflict led him to advocate the advantages of a strong national government and a vigorous executive agency that could get results ; other historians tend to ascribe Washington's position on government to his later American Revolutionary War service.

The screenplay was optioned by Ron Howard and Imagine Films and is currently under development at Paramount Pictures.

1940s advertisement specifically targeting African Americans, A young Ron Brown ( U. S. politician ) | Ron Brown is the boy reaching for a bottle

Ron Carter ( born May 4, 1937 ) is an American jazz double-bassist.

In Malcolm Gladwell's book What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Ron Popeil is interviewed and many of his products, most notably the Veg-O-Matic and Showtime Rotisserie, are discussed.

Diane married Ron Miller at the age of 20 and is known as Diane Disney Miller.

Writers of the Future ( WOTF ) is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was originated by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s.

** Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.

The attraction is an electronic scavenger hunt that has guests using special " Kimmunicators " ( in actuality, stripped-down cell phones ) to help teenage crime-fighters Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable solve a " crime " or disrupt an evil-doer's " plans for global domination.

U. S. Congressman Ron Paul has continually argued for the reinstatement of the gold standard, but is no longer a strict advocate, instead supporting a basket of commodities that emerges on the free markets.

Lauda is played by Daniel Brühl in the 2013 Ron Howard film Rush about the 1976 Formula One season.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

It is described in more detail in the accompanying confidential " Assists " lecture of October 3, 1968, and is dramatized in Revolt in the Stars ( a screenplay written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1977 ).