Graham Meets Winthrop Rockefeller (Hawks-2)

It was in the Pacific Theatre of World War II that Graham Hawks and Winthrop Rockefeller would meet and become good friends. They were both at a military officer’s school when Hawks saw Rockefeller talking around with others. Hawks approached Rockefeller and told him that his grandfather, Byron Hawks, worked at John D. Rockefeller’s, Winthrop’s grandfather, estate in Tarrytown New York, first as a gardener and later as a superintendent. Enamored by this ancestral connection, Hawks and Rockefeller would form a bond and be at each other’s side for much of World War II. The two would continue to maintain a strong relationship for the remainder of their lives long after the end of World War II.