While serving as a Marine in the Vietnam War, Ron Kovic suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Kovic’s book, Born on the Fourth of July, published 40 years ago, ...

Born on the Fourth of July is an epic post-war film that tells the story of anti-war activist Ronald Lawrence Kovic, who also co-wrote the film with director Oliver Stone. The movie is based on his ...

In the fall of 1974, a tormented young Vietnam War veteran rolled his wheelchair into the Sears store on Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica and bought a typewriter for $42. He lugged it back to his ...

Reporting from SacramentoReporting from Sacramento — Anyone who saw the movie “Born on the Fourth of July” knows about Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise. Marine Sgt. Kovic was shot in Vietnam and ...

Reporting from SacramentoReporting from Sacramento — Badly wounded Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic remembers vividly the awkward, dehumanizing times before President George H.W. Bush signed the landmark ...

Vietnam vet and political activist Ron Kovic, who gained fame as the subject for Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July," will receive The MY HERO Project's first Messenger of Peace Award on ...

The 1989 movie, "Born on the Fourth of July," played on HBO recently. Stumbling upon the channel, I was drawn to this movie based on the true story of Ron Kovic. Kovic was a small-town boy, zealously ...

Charlie Sheen was caught off guard when he learned that Tom Cruise had been cast as Sergeant Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone’s 1989 Vietnam War movie, Born on the Fourth of July, instead of him. On a recent ...

Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 ...

To mark the sixth anniversary of the Iraq War, peaceful protesters led by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic marched in Hollywood Saturday, where they carried mock coffins, chanted antiwar slogans and held ...

Reporting from Sacramento — Anyone who saw the movie “Born on the Fourth of July” knows about Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise. Marine Sgt. Kovic was shot in Vietnam and paralyzed from the chest down.