Interesting Persons

Chuck Barris

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Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris

(born 3 June 1929) is an American game show producer and presenter who was responsible for many of the best known game shows of the 1960s and 1970s. Barris, who is a survivor of lung cancer, is also an author. [1]

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Jacques Mesrine

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Jacques Mesrine [?ak me'?in] or more commonly but mistakenly [m?s'?in] (December 28, 1936 - November 2, 1979) was a French criminal who was also briefly active in the United States and Canada.

 

 


George Jung

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George Jacob Jung (born August 6, 1942), nicknamed "Boston George", was a major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s; he was infamous for being one of the most prolific drug traffickers in the United States during that time. Jung was a part of the Medellín Cartel which was responsible for up to 85 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States. He specialized in the smuggling of cocaine from Colombia on a large scale. His life story was portrayed in the 2001 movie Blow, starring Johnny Depp.

 

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