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I’m one of NFL’s oldest living players who helped subdue an assassin and got my own TV show [Rosey Grier turned 93 the other day]
talksport ^ | 7-16-2025 | Jack Savage

Posted on 07/15/2025 10:13:45 PM PDT by FLNittany

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To: Bob434

yeah

Wow just looked - June 6, 1968

Roughly a one-year anniversary of the Six-Day War

June 5-10, 1967 if memory serves - yep just confirmed


41 posted on 07/16/2025 5:29:18 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Bob434

About John Wayne, the first article talks about assassins that came for him, and the second article says this was not substantiated. Take your pick.

(I had not head about this either.)

https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/02/16/how-john-wayne-got-rid-kgb-agents-hired-kill-him.html

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/joseph-stalin-john-wayne.html


42 posted on 07/16/2025 8:19:44 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: FLNittany

I did not know he was still alive. I remember him well.


43 posted on 07/16/2025 9:28:19 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: KittyKares

this site states that “Many sources suggest that Stalin did want Wayne assassinated” but nothing was solidified whether it happened or not.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/did-kgb-agents-really-try-to-kill-john-wayne/

apparently a sniper did try to shoot him later- claiming Mao ordered him to do so, but that couldn’t be confimrmed whether mao did or not


44 posted on 07/16/2025 9:29:44 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: alexander_busek

He was on an episode of CHIPS, where he got stopped in a Volkswagen, and then starts tearing it up in frustration.


45 posted on 07/16/2025 9:30:16 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: FLNittany

4 November 2016:
I disarmed my friend Bobby Kennedy's assassin. But I am voting Trump.
NFL legend Rosey Grier's shock endorsement of 'leader who's going
to change this country'

46 posted on 07/16/2025 9:41:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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47 posted on 07/16/2025 9:42:49 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: I-ambush

Mr. Milland was at the end of his career. I don’t know what his issues were, but that siren song of money and fame is hard to let go.

“C’mon, Ray! It’s edgy. The kids these days will love it.”


48 posted on 07/16/2025 4:00:21 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: FLNittany

God bless him. Living to age 94 ain’t no joke.


49 posted on 07/16/2025 4:15:08 PM PDT by rod5591
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