Dan Bullock: The youngest American killed in the Vietnam War

Pfc. Dan Bullock died at age 15 in 1969 and efforts to recognize the young African-American Marine continue and are highlighted in this Military Times documentary. (Rodney Bryant and Daniel Woolfolk/Military Times)

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Charles F. Adams, U.S. diplomat and public official whose father was John Quincy Adams.

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Elsa Morante, Italian writer (History: A Novel).

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Shelly Winters, actress who won an Academy Award for The Diary of Anne Frank.

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Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer.

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1936

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Dan Bullock: The youngest American killed in the Vietnam War

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