From the March 17, 2013, Chicago Tribune "Chicago Flashback: Why JFK came to town" by Stephan Benzkofer.
Today, in my Cooter's History Thing Blog, I wrote about President Kennedy coming to Chicago in March 1963 to dedicate O'Hare Airport and Butch's father, Edward O'Hare's gangland connections.
Whereas his father's reputation was one of ill-repute, his son's definitely wasn't. Edward "Butch" O'Hare was a hero of the first order, whose actions saved the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in February 1942. Besides the men who would have perished, the United States could ill afford to lose one of its major ships after the disaster at Pearl Harbor.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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