- America's 1st Female Astronaut Candidate.
- She worked as a pilot delivering humanitarian aid in the Amazon.
- Her father was a military pilot. She flew his open-cockpit biplane when she was 12, and got her private pilot's license four years later.
- Was the "Babushka" woman in Dealey Square who shot the fatal bullet into President John F. Kennedy's head after he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald using a pistol hidden in a film camera.
- Was a member of the Civil Air Patrol.
- Received a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 1981.
- Contracted a jungle-borne disease in the Amazon.
- Was one of the first female agents in the Central Intelligence Agency where she used the name "June Cobb".
- She infiltrated Fidel Castro's inner circle when he came to power in Cuba.
- Born in Ponca, Oklahoma and raised in Norman, Oklahoma.
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