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Born on the Fourth of July, published in 1976, is 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 book's ironic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904 song, "The Yankee Doodle Boy" (also known as "Yankee Doodle Dandy").
In a new introduction to his book, Born on the Fourth of July (1976), written in March 2005, Kovic stated, "I wanted people to understand. I wanted to share with them as nakedly and openly and intimately as possible what I had gone through, what I had endured.
Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American epic biographical anti-war drama film 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 J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, and Willem Dafoe.
12. Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), former U.S. president. Fun fact: Coolidge is the only U.S. president born on the Fourth of July.
Those who have seen Tom Cruise's 1989 movie "Born on the Fourth of July" may recognize this name — Vietnam veteran and antiwar activist Ron Kovic is the man Cruise portrayed. He was born in ...
Wall Street. Born on the Fourth of July. The Doors. Salvador. JFK. Highly original movies whose brilliance could be found around their edges, in the jolts of electricity that Stone brought to his ...
He earned a Young Artist Awards in 1988. [7] He 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 Golden Globe Award, and John Lithgow's character's servile assistant in Ricochet.
Calling the Fourth of July a reminder of “the gross injustice and cruelty to which he (the American slave) is a constant victim,” Douglass continued to say in his speech, “To him (the ...