Remembering The Passed

Remembering Junior Johnson, Dr. John Robbins, Herman Boone, Kenny LynchJunior Johnson was the moonshiner turned stock car driver who became a NASCAR legend. He won 50 racers then turned to owning and promoting stock car racing and was famously profiled by Tom Wolfe in an article in Esquire entitled “The Last American Hero.” Dr. John Robbins was the co-developer of a vaccine that prevented meningitis in millions of infants and toddlers. Herman Boone was the African-American football coach, who was the subject of the 2000 movie, Remember the Titans, where he was played by Denzel Washington. Kenny Lynch was the British entertainer who, in 1963, recorded the first Lennon/McCartney tune done by someone other than The Beatles.