Cops, firefighters, medics, soldiers, and similar who generally served others.
A politician, in 1950 Brooke ran for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Oddly, state law allowed him to run as both a Democrat and a Republican — he decided to let voters decide which party he should adopt. He lost the Democratic primary but won the Republican, and kept that party affiliation after losing in … Read more
From This is True for 4 January 2015
In high school, Steward was interested in going to college, but the school steered him to a vocational career instead — because he was Black. Instead, he went to Los Angeles Junior College until he could be accepted at Santa Barbara State College (now the University of California at Santa Barbara). He was the only … Read more
From This is True for 21 December 2014
Young became one of the earliest Iraq war veterans to publicly protest the war, and to talk other young people out of enlisting.
From This is True for 16 November 2014
She decided to use the time she had left to start a fund to help such laws pass in other states.
From This is True for 2 November 2014
Mayes founded the U.S.’s first suicide prevention hotline — and helped organize PBS. And then….
From This is True for 26 October 2014
“No one wanted to fly it; there were no volunteers.”
From This is True for 18 May 2014
“The blinding floodlights made me blink and suddenly I realized that they were playing right into my hands.”
From This is True for 30 March 2014
Nathan was the first woman to receive an electoral vote in a presidential election in American history.
From This is True for 23 March 2014
Matheson and historian George F.G. Stanley designed the Canadian flag.
From This is True for 29 December 2013
You’ve heard of The Exploding Whale. Thornton is the guy who ‘sploded it.
From This is True for 10 November 2013