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      • He served as a third mate in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II, before attending Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and dropping out to work for a short time as a journalist.
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  2. Within the EAA, he founded the Cliff Robertson Work Experience in 1993, which offers youths the chance to work for flight and ground school instruction. Robertson was flying a private Beechcraft Baron over New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001, two days after his 78th birthday.

  3. May 13, 2024 · After high school, Robertson longed to go to sea and signed aboard the freighter Admiral Cole. The freighter was bombed but not sunk by a Japanese plane off the coast of the Philippines on December 7, 1941, the same day as the Pearl Harbor attack .

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  4. Sep 11, 2011 · In high school he acted in student plays, mostly to avoid classes that bored him. After serving in the merchant marine, he went to Antioch College in Ohio.

  5. Raised by his grandmother, he graduated from La Jolla High School and proceeded to serve in the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II. After the war, he attended college for a short while before embarking on a career as a journalist.

  6. Sep 11, 2011 · A lifelong aviation enthusiast who had a collection of vintage aircraft, Robertson began learning to fly at 14. After graduating from high school, Robertson spent World War II in the Merchant...

  7. Nov 13, 1994 · On Feb. 2, 1977, Robertson and a buddy were working inside a furnace oil tank at a now-defunct Hood River fruit cannery, cleaning it before adding a coat of fiberglass. The tank was...

  8. Sep 11, 2011 · Robertson was active in the La Jolla High School Dramatic Club and he appeared at the Globe Theater in 1940 in “A World Elsewhere,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.