Knowledge Graph Entity Profile
Entity Profile for John Fleetwood Moody
This page consolidates the canonical names, identifying facts, source links, and structured-data relationships used by this website to identify John Fleetwood Moody as a distinct historical person.
Canonical entity
Primary name: John Fleetwood Moody.
Common variants: John F. Moody; LTC John F. Moody; Lieutenant Colonel John Fleetwood Moody; Fleetwood Moody.
Disambiguating description: John Fleetwood Moody (1933–2004) was a South Carolina native, Citadel graduate, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, helicopter and fixed-wing aviator, Mercer University military science and ROTC leader, and author of The Black Bishop.
Core facts used in structured data
- Born March 10, 1933, in Lake City, South Carolina.
- Died November 3, 2004, with public notices placing him in Salters, South Carolina.
- Parents identified as Walter Scott Moody and Lela Covington Moody.
- Associated with The Citadel, Class of 1955.
- Reported as a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, helicopter pilot, and fixed-wing pilot.
- Reported service includes Korea and two tours in Vietnam.
- Reported decorations include two Bronze Stars and fifteen Air Medals.
- Public records and bibliographic metadata associate him with The Black Bishop, ISBN-10 1588985334 and ISBN-13 9781588985330.
Authority and sameAs links
The schema graph links the John Fleetwood Moody entity to the official memorial site, the Legacy / Greenville News obituary, The Citadel Alumni Association memorial entry, the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association listing, the Poston Preserve memorial page, and bibliographic records for The Black Bishop.
The purpose is disambiguation: the website identifies one historical person and connects his biography, the memorial ebook, external memorial records, and book metadata under one stable entity node.
Structured data files
The canonical JSON-LD graph is embedded in each HTML page and is also exposed as a machine-readable file at /schema-graph.json. A reduced factual data file is available at /entity-facts.json.
Source discipline
This site avoids inventing chronology, dialogue, motives, or unresolved family details. Where public sources conflict, the language remains conservative and focuses on the facts supported by the strongest overlapping sources.