PJumper
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DID YOU KNOW....that the 1992 movie "A Few Good men" starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson was loosely based on a true story?!
Tom Cruise plays a Navy lawyer defending two US Marines who accidentally killed a fellow Marine while hazing him under orders from Jack Nicholson, their commanding officer.
In the end, Tom Cruise finally goads Jack Nicholson into admitting that he ordered the hazing by employing the brilliant legal tactic of "getting him so pissed that he confesse...s to a crime in open court."
The movie was written by Aaron Sorkin, who originally got the idea for the story from his sister, a JAG Corps officer who had been assigned to help defend a group of Marines who had performed a "code red" hazing on a fellow Marine and nearly killed him.
One of the Marines involved in the hazing was PFC David Cox.
Much like the character of Private Downey in the film, David Cox didn't believe he had done anything wrong, because he had only been following the orders of his superior officers.
In the end, David Cox was only convicted of the relatively minor charge of simple assault and later received an honorable discharge.
He lived a normal civilian life for a few years, until he went to see the movie "A Few Good Men" and thought it looked awfully familiar.
David Cox and some of the other defendants decided to organize a lawsuit against the production company for using their story without permission, despite the fact that the movie was a fictionalized version of the event that doesn't use any real names and at no point represents itself as a true story.
In the wake of his litigation preparation, Cox gave a series of angry radio interviews, decrying not only "A Few Good Men" but also the true-life "code red" incident that had inspired it.
In January 1994, David Cox mysteriously disappeared from his home in Medfield, Massachusetts, he literally vanished -- his car and all his things were still at his apartment.
Three months later, his bullet-soaked body was found in a remote wooded area between two gun ranges.
To this day nobody knows what happened and David Cox case remains unsolved.
Tom Cruise plays a Navy lawyer defending two US Marines who accidentally killed a fellow Marine while hazing him under orders from Jack Nicholson, their commanding officer.
In the end, Tom Cruise finally goads Jack Nicholson into admitting that he ordered the hazing by employing the brilliant legal tactic of "getting him so pissed that he confesse...s to a crime in open court."
The movie was written by Aaron Sorkin, who originally got the idea for the story from his sister, a JAG Corps officer who had been assigned to help defend a group of Marines who had performed a "code red" hazing on a fellow Marine and nearly killed him.
One of the Marines involved in the hazing was PFC David Cox.
Much like the character of Private Downey in the film, David Cox didn't believe he had done anything wrong, because he had only been following the orders of his superior officers.
In the end, David Cox was only convicted of the relatively minor charge of simple assault and later received an honorable discharge.
He lived a normal civilian life for a few years, until he went to see the movie "A Few Good Men" and thought it looked awfully familiar.
David Cox and some of the other defendants decided to organize a lawsuit against the production company for using their story without permission, despite the fact that the movie was a fictionalized version of the event that doesn't use any real names and at no point represents itself as a true story.
In the wake of his litigation preparation, Cox gave a series of angry radio interviews, decrying not only "A Few Good Men" but also the true-life "code red" incident that had inspired it.
In January 1994, David Cox mysteriously disappeared from his home in Medfield, Massachusetts, he literally vanished -- his car and all his things were still at his apartment.
Three months later, his bullet-soaked body was found in a remote wooded area between two gun ranges.
To this day nobody knows what happened and David Cox case remains unsolved.
