Audie Murphy was a motion picture star and a producer in Hollywood. During World War II, he served in the United States Army and was decorated for his efforts. Audie Leon Murphy was born June 20, 1924, at Kingston, Texas. Before stardom, he was a sharecropper in Texas, a clerk, and a filling station attendant. Murphy was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown to the State Board of Examiners in Veterinary Medicine. He was in the United States Army Reserves in a Standby status. Murphy owned a farm where he raised quarter horses and cattle. He sold the farm to Bob Hope. Audie Murphy died in an airplane crash on May 29, 1971, when the plane he was in flew into a mountain range shrouded by fog and rain near Roanoke, Virginia.
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