Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed...

that is based on the 1976 autobiography of Ron Kovic. Directed by Oliver Stone, and written by Stone and Kovic, it stars Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond...

the best-selling autobiography by Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his...

Man (1988), and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). For his portrayal of Ron Kovic in the latter, he won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for...

the same year. His next role was as anti-war activist Ron Kovic in the film adaptation of Kovic's memoir of the same name, Born on the Fourth of July (1989)...

the best selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Combs portrayed Jenny in the film, which also starred Tom Cruise. Her...

Kovic may be a shortened form of South Slavic surnames ending with -ković: Ron Kovic, Kovačević[citation needed] (born 1946), American anti-war activist...

had a close relationship with disabled Vietnam War veteran and activist Ron Kovic. They went to high school together, and he thanked her in his memoir Born...

title character played by River Phoenix. She also played the mother of Ron Kovic, portrayed by Tom Cruise, in Born on the Fourth of July (1989). She has...

these spitting incidents was directed at antiwar activist and ex-Marine, Ron Kovic, who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. At the 1972 Republican...

reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar-activist Ron Kovic, with whom Jane Fonda's character falls in love. The film included a much-talked-about...

by her friendship with Ron Kovic, a paraplegic Vietnam War veteran, whom she had met at an antiwar rally. At that time, Kovic had recently completed his...

play‡ Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic based on the autobiography by Ron Kovic Enemies, A Love Story – Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky...

Healthcare System Ron Kovic – patient in 1968. Author of Born on the Fourth of July Born on the Fourth of July – film based on Ron Kovic's autobiography "Bailey...

Sean Kenniff – physician Brian Kilmeade – co-host of Fox and Friends Ron Kovic – Vietnam veteran, anti-war activist, author Brian Langtry – lacrosse...

paraplegic, wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran who befriends the film's subject Ron Kovic (played by Tom Cruise), another paraplegic veteran. Dafoe made a cameo...

Christy Brown My Left Foot Kenneth Branagh King Henry V Henry V Tom Cruise Ron Kovic Born on the Fourth of July Morgan Freeman Hoke Colburn Driving Miss Daisy...

Stone's film Born on the Fourth of July, based on Ron Kovic's autobiography of the same name, depicts Kovic and fellow Vietnam Veterans Against the War activists...

went on to produce, direct, write and act. Most notably, he acted as Ron Kovic's hippie younger brother in Born on the Fourth of July, which won a 1990...

July is based on the autobiography of US Marine turned peace campaigner Ron Kovic; Heaven & Earth is based on the memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places...

Primer, About Face, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts) Joe Haldeman Gustav Hasford Ron Kovic Karl Marlantes, US Marine Corps (What it is Like to Go to War, Matterhorn)...

promoting the war." This group likely comprised 24-year-old Jan Barry, Ron Kovic, Skip Delano, photographer Sheldon Ramsdell, and former Black Panther...

S. Navy SEAL, U.S. Senator from Nebraska and Medal of Honor recipient Ron Kovic, Marine Corps, writer, anti-war activist Sharon Ann Lane, U.S. Army nurse...

of Ron Kovic's childhood in the early parts of Born on the Fourth of July also fits the cultural perceptions of "Middle America" (though Kovic's hometown...

Killings. Anthony Ingrassia, American playwright, producer, and director Ron Kovic, author Born on the Fourth of July, graduated Massapequa High School in...

on the Grassy Knoll in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and as Ron Kovic's father in the Academy Award-winning film Born on the Fourth of July....

Hayes, composer and arranger Donald J. Hoffman, Air Force 4-star general Ron Kovic, author, Vietnam War veteran Jim Leonhard, NFL player Earl Maves, NFL...

screenplay for Born on the Fourth of July. Al Pacino was attached to star as Ron Kovic. At that time, Cimino was eager to make another film about Vietnam and...

win the All Pakistan Newspaper Society award. She is also the winner of Ron Kovic Peace prize. Muniba Mazari is Pakistan's only wheel chair-bound TV anchor...

US invasions of Laos and Cambodia, Agent Orange, the Pentagon Papers, Ron Kovic, and raids on draft boards. Chapter 19, "Surprises", covers other movements...