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Alek Skarlatos, center right, Anthony Sadler, right, Mark Moogalian, left, and their lawyer Thibault de Montbrial, center left, deliver a speech during the Thalys attack trial at the Paris courthouse, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Passengers who wrestled and disarmed an Islamic State gunman aboard a high-speed Amsterdam to Paris train are recounting how their split-second decisions helped prevent what could have become a mass slaughter. AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

American passenger recalls trying to kill train attacker

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2018, file photo, Alek Skarlatos, right, speaks at the Douglas County Republican Party headquarters in Roseburg, Ore. Skarlatos, who in 2015 helped thwart an attack by a gunman on a Paris-bound train, faces longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio in the November election. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP, File)

Alek Skarlatos, Paris train attack hero, makes bid for Congress from Oregon

By Andrew Selsky - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2018, file photo, Alek Skarlatos, right, speaks at the Douglas County Republican Party headquarters in Roseburg, Ore. Skarlatos, who in 2015 helped thwart an attack by a gunman on a Paris-bound train, faces longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio in the November election. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP, File)

Paris train attack hero makes bid for Congress from Oregon

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Alek Skarlatos, right, speaks with former Douglas County Commissioner Mike Winters at the Douglas County Republican Party headquarters in Roseburg, Ore., Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Earlier in the evening Skarlatos announced his intent to run for the Douglas County Commissioner seat recently vacated by Gary Leif. Skarlotos and two friends were traveling in Europe in August 2015 when they incapacitated a heavily armed gunman. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)

Paris train hero runs for county commissioner in Oregon

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In this Jan. 27, 2018 photo, Spencer Stone, from left, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler, pose for a portrait to promote the film &quot;15:17 to Paris&quot; at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles. The trio, who famously thwarted a potential terrorist attack in August 2015 on a Paris-bound train, play themselves in the film. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)

Eastwood makes real heroes the stars in ‘The 15:17 to Paris’

By Lindsey Bahr - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2015 file photo, French President Francois Hollande bids farewell to U.S. Airman Spencer Stone as U.S. National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos of Roseburg, Ore., second from left, and Anthony Sadler, a senior at Sacramento State University in California, right, look on after Hollande awarded them with the French Legion of Honor at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The wait is almost over to see Roseburg, Ore., hero Skarlatos on the big screen in &quot;The 15:17 to Paris.&quot; Skarlatos plays himself in the film, as he and two friends reenact the day they saved hundreds of lives by thwarting a terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Film on Roseburg hero in terrorist attack to premiere Feb. 9

By CARISA CEGAVSKE - Associated Press

Paris-train hero Alek Skarlatos to star as himself in movie

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In this Sept. 11, 2015, file photo, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, left, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, center, and Anthony Sadler attend a parade held to honor the three Americans who stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound passenger train, in Sacramento, Calif. The three Sacramento-area men who thwarted a terror attack on a French train in 2015 will play themselves in a Clint Eastwood-directed film about their heroic feat. Sadler, Skarlatos, and Stone will star in &quot;15:17 to Paris,&quot; which began production this week. (AP Photo/Carl Costas, File)

Men who stopped train attack to star in Clint Eastwood film

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In this photo provided by Christina Cathleen Coons, a man is detained on a train platform after an incident on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in Arras, northern France. The gunman opened fire on the train wounding several people before American passengers subdued him, according to officials and one of the Americans involved. (Christina Cathleen Coon via AP)

3 Americans praised for subduing gunman on European train

By Nadine Achoui-Lesage and Stephanie Siek - Associated Press