Shortly after Winthrop Rockefeller moved from New York to Petit Jean near Morrilton Arkansas, he started his Winrock Farms cow raising business. Graham Hawks would become a fairly frequent and welcomed visitor at his friend’s Arkansas home. Hawks and his…
The USS Henrico was traveling through the Okinawa area along with the 77th Division attack group. Rockefeller was playing cards and Hawks was sitting around the executive officer’s room when, as Hawks recounts, “All of a sudden there was a…
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…
Graham Hawks was a soldier in World War II when he met fellow soldier Winthrop Rockefeller. Surviving the war, the two men would maintain a lifelong friendship.
