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Born
Born in Winterset, Iowa -
Started college at USC
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first leading role in a movie
The Big Trail -
Married his first wife
Josephine Saenz -
Became a major movie star
The movie Stagecoach -
exempted from service in WWII
Do to his age, 34 he was not allowed to join -
starred in the movie The Searchers
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battle lung cancer
Had his left lung removed -
won an academy award
won an Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn In the movie True Grit -
Awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom
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Starred in the movie The Shootist
He played J.B. Books. -
Helped to ratify the Panama Canal Treaty
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Died
do to lung and stomach cancer. He was 72