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Kristofferson was a vocal opponent of the Gulf War and Iraq War and a critic of a number of United States military interventions and foreign policy positions, including the United States invasion of Panama and U.S. support of the Contras during the Nicaraguan Revolution and of the Apartheid government in South Africa.
Kris Kristofferson born into military family, served in military before writing songs. Kristofferson was born in 1936 in Brownsville, Texas into a military family that moved often. His family ...
Kris Kristofferson born into military family. Kristoffer Kristofferson was born June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas, a town on the southern tip of the state near the Mexican border. As a boy, he ...
Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, whose poignant lyrics made him a country music legend and whose rugged good looks led to 1970s Hollywood movie star fame, has died. He was 88. He was 88.
The song, which begins with a spoken introduction by Kris Kristofferson, tells the tale of Niles Harris, a soldier in the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the United States Army during Operation Hump in South Vietnam on November 8, 1965.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson's life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible.. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying U.S. Army captain who walked away from a West Point faculty gig to briefly become a janitor on his way to becoming one of the greatest American singer-songwriters of the 20th century.
Vigilante Force is a 1976 American action film directed by George Armitage and starring Kris Kristofferson and Jan-Michael Vincent.The plot concerns a Vietnam War veteran and his buddies, who are hired by his brother and others in a small California town for protection from rowdy oil-field workers.
Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas in 1936, and pursued a full education, though he was encouraged by his family to join the military, eventually doing as they asked after college.