# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-r-shadrick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:49.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-r-shadrick"
name: "Kenneth R. Shadrick"
slug: "kenneth-r-shadrick"
description: "Kenneth R. Shadrick was a United States Army soldier who was killed at the onset of the Korean War. He was widely reported as the first American soldier killed in action in the war."
tagline: "US Army soldier (1931–1950), the first killed in the Korean War"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenneth_Shadrick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1931-08-04"
deathDate: "1950-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.43
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.924014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Shadrick"
    title: "Kenneth Shadrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A2%D8%B1_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "كينيث آر شادريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Shadrick"
    title: "Kenneth R. Shadrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%82%AF%E5%B0%BC%E6%96%AF%C2%B7R%C2%B7%E6%B2%99%E5%BE%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B"
    title: "肯尼斯·R·沙德里克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Shadrick"
    title: "Kenneth R. Shadrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BC%80%EB%84%A4%EC%8A%A4_R._%EC%85%B0%EB%93%9C%EB%A6%AD"
    title: "케네스 R. 셰드릭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6390622"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump