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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Kovic may be a shortened form of South Slavic surnames ending with -ković: Ron Kovic, Kovačević[citation needed] (born 1946), American anti-war activist...
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    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...
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    was nominated four Academy Awards for his Best Actor playing Sergeant Ron Kovic in the biographical anti war film Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and...
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    Rain Man (1988). 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)...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    paraplegic, wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran who befriends the film's subject Ron Kovic (played by Tom Cruise), another paraplegic veteran. Dafoe made a cameo...
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  • about Ron Kovic and the anti-war Vietnam veterans and their protests at the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. The film inspired Kovic to...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Sean Kenniff – physician Brian Kilmeade – co-host of Fox and Friends Ron Kovic – Vietnam veteran, anti-war activist, author Brian Langtry – lacrosse...
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  • 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...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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    it had a name", and that Miller displayed a photograph he had taken of Ron Kovic prominently in his living room. After the war, Miller converted to Catholicism...
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    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...
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    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...
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    promoting the war." This group likely comprised 24-year-old Jan Barry, Ron Kovic, Skip Delano, photographer Sheldon Ramsdell, and former Black Panther...
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    Killings. Anthony Ingrassia, American playwright, producer, and director Ron Kovic, author Born on the Fourth of July, graduated Massapequa High School in...
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    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....
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    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...
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