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The iconic movie star John Wayne charged the beaches at Iwo Jima in 1971. He was at a height of his popularity and worked in more than 200 movies since his first film. He was listed in the Hollywood Top Ten Box-office personalities for at least two decades. Point to be noted that he had won the Best Actor Academy Award for his popular movie True Grit as Rooster Cogburn. He was featured in this movie as a one eyed and fearless U.S marshal who never experienced a dry day in his life. He gathered impressive ratings with his sprinkled over tribute of John Wayne to America for NBC television.

It is important that Playboy magazine interviewed with the famous Western film legend and published in their magazine in the month of May 1971. The magazine indicated that his political reputation was well known as conservative and it was true with himself not only performed as a character on the silver screen. Especially, Wayne was abundantly unemotional to the covenant to the Native Americans (Native Americans are still known as “Indians”). He had been marked-out as bandit various times in the film and expressed his view point that they really deserved whatever happened with them because they were selfish. He stressed that modern Americans should not blame the previous generation and to Native Americans about their wrong done.