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She was born Katharine Ann Johnson to Anne Cox Chambers and Louis G. Johnson. Her maternal grandfather is James M. Cox . She has a sister Margaretta Taylor , and a half-brother James Cox Chambers , from her mother's second marriage.
Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1][2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
Katherine Anne Porter was born in Indian Creek, Texas, as Callie Russell Porter to Harrison Boone Porter and Mary Alice (Jones) Porter. Although her father claimed maternal descent from American frontiersman Daniel Boone, Porter herself altered this alleged descent to be from Boone's brother Jonathan as "the record of his descendants was obscure, so that no-one could contradict her".
Luci Baines Johnson (born 1947), youngest daughter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson; Lynda Bird Johnson Robb (born 1944), eldest daughter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson; Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969
The Graduate is a 1967 American independent [6] romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols [7] and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, [8] based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent ...
Chambers is the son of Anne Cox Chambers, the former US Ambassador to Belgium, [4] and the grandson of newspaper publisher, three-time Governor of Ohio, and 1920 Democratic nominee for President James M. Cox. He has two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage, Katharine Ann Johnson and Margaretta Johnson. He graduated from Bard College in ...
Katharine Smith was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina. [1] Katharine was the oldest of six children of a prosperous local businessman, Zachary T. Smith and his wife, Mary Susan Jackson. Katharine was well educated and attended the State Normal and Industrial School, now known as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in the fall of ...
Down a dusty alley in the Ghanaian capital Accra, young men huddle together in a small, dark room and cast off their true identities, taking on the phony role of women looking for love online.