Harris was part of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion.
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He was a moderate Republican known for being able to work with both parties.
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He built the flying police cars for “Blade Runner.”
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He leapt onto President Kennedy’s car to try to protect him and the first lady.
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He was also a star of the Cloris Leachman sitcom, “Phyllis.”
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French portrayed Father Lonigan in over 400 episodes of NBC’s “Passions,” the daytime drama.
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He was one of four Tuskegee Airmen who shot down three enemy planes in a single day.
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She co-founded the nation’s first nurse practitioner program at the University of Colorado.
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She was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation.