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TIL that Doors frontman Jim Morrison, one of the most iconic figures of the 1960s counterculture, was the son of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison, commander of U.S. forces in the Gulf of Tonkin incident that jumpstarted America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

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