Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker.
 An Academy Award-winner for "True Grit" (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.
Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 American western adventure film directed by Stuart Millar and starring John Wayne, reprising his role as U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn, and Katharine Hepburn.
 Written by Martha Hyer, based on the U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn character created by Charles McColl Portis in his 1968 western novel "True Grit", the film is about an aging one-eyed lawman whose badge was recently suspended for a string of routine arrests that ended in bloodshed.
 To earn back his badge, he is tasked with bringing down a ring of bank robbers that has hijacked a wagon shipment of nitroglycerin.
 He is helped by a spinster searching for her father's killer.
 "Rooster Cogburn" is a sequel to the 1969 film "True Grit", which won for Wayne his only Academy Award ("Oscar") for Best Actor in 1970.
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
 It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
 David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score.
 The song was recorded by B. J. Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six.
 In the film version of the song, Thomas had been recovering from laryngitis, which made his voice sound hoarser than in the 7-inch release.
 The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman performed bicycle stunts.
VEISHEA (pronounced "VEE-sha") was an annual week-long celebration held each spring on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
 The celebration featured an annual parade and many open-house demonstrations of the university facilities and departments.
 Campus organizations exhibited products, technologies, and hold fund raisers for various charity groups.
 In addition, VEISHEA brought speakers, lecturers, and entertainers to Iowa State, and throughout its over eight-decade history it has hosted such distinguished guests as Bob Hope, John Wayne, Tony Bruno, Presidents Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, and Lyndon Johnson, and performers Diana Ross, Mike Jones (rapper), Billy Joel, Sonny and Cher, the Goo Goo Dolls and The Black Eyed Peas.
 VEISHEA was the largest student run festival in the nation, bringing in tens of thousands of visitors to the campus each year.
Gig Young (born Byron Elsworth Barr; November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American film, stage, and television actor.
 Known mainly for second leads and supporting roles, Young won an Academy Award for his performance as a slimy dance-marathon emcee in the 1969 film "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
" An alcoholic, Young was implicated in the murder-suicide that resulted in the deaths of his wife and himself in 1978.
Zoltán Fábri (15 October 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
 His films "The Boys of Paul Street" (1969) and "Hungarians" (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
 His 1965 film "Twenty Hours" shared the Grand Prix with "War and Peace" at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
 His 1969 film "The Toth Family" was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival.
 His 1975 film "141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence" was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival, where he won a Special Prize for Directing.
Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) is an American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist.
 He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists.
 There he wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film "Women in Love" (1969) and earned an Academy Award nomination for his work.
 Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel "Faggots" (1978), which earned mixed reviews and emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community for Kramer's one-sided portrayal of shallow, promiscuous gay relationships in the 1970s.
Colin Welland (4 July 1934 – 2 November 2015), born Colin Edward Williams, was a British actor and screenwriter.
 He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his script for "Chariots of Fire" (1981).
 He won a BAFTA Award for his performance as the empathetic teacher Mr Farthing in the 1969 film "Kes".
Elizabeth Alice "Ali" MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress, model, author, and animal rights activist.
 She first gained attention with her role in the 1969 film "Goodbye, Columbus", for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
 She reached international fame in 1970's "Love Story", for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
 In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having been in just three films.
 She went on to star in the popular action films "The Getaway" (1972) and "Convoy" (1978) as well as the romantic sports drama "Players" (1979), the comedy "Just Tell Me What You Want" (1980), and the historical novel-based television miniseries "The Winds of War" (1983).
 In 1991, she published an autobiography, "Moving Pictures".
Geneviève Bujold (] ; or ] , born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days".
 She won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award.
 Other films she has appeared in include "Obsession" (1976), "Coma" (1978), "Dead Ringers" (1988) and "Still Mine" (2012).

Question: A speaker at VIESHA won an Academy Award for what 1969 film?
Answer: True Grit