| I’ve met surprising a number of famous people in my life. Below are photos of some of them. There are other celebrities that I have encountered, but didn’t have a camera handy (or I lost the picture) Click here to see this list |
11-foot model of the USS Enterprise used in filming the original series on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
Apollo 11 Command Module on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
TV anchor and reporter, Art Norman
Ben Hollis of WTTW's "Wild Chicago"
With U.S. Representative Bobby Rush
Buzz Aldrin, second man to walk on the moon, Apollo 11. Met at shook hands with him at an event at the Adler Planetarium.
One time WBBM TV reporter Bob Wallace
Nichelle Nichols, "Lt. Uhura" of Star Trek
"Sky Jock" Tom Joyner
With U.S. Representative Danny Davis
Comedian and activist, the legendary Dick Gregory
Radio legend Art "Chat Daddy" Sims. Donna and I have both appeared on his program when he worked at WVON
With Art "Chat Daddy" Sims after interview on WVON Radio
With Dorothy Brown, surgeon, legislator, teacher and Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County
With Chicago Alderman Ed Burke
Eric Monte, creator of TV series "Good Times" and "What's Happening"
Opera super stars Eric Owens and Lawrence Brownlee
Legendary radio personality, Felisha Middlebrooks
Gart Friedrich, creator of "Ghost Rider"
Autorgraphed photo of Gary Lockhart from Star Trek convention in the 1990's
Gary Lockwood, "Star Trek" and "2001: A Space Oddysey" taken at a special presentation of 2001 in Chicago
With Herbie Hancock--Donna's cousin!
Legendary radio DJ Herb Kent at his induction into the Guiness Book of World Records as longest working radio personality
Oscar Meyer Wienermobile
South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela
James Earl Jones. Met and shook hands with him at a special concert at Symphony Center Chicago
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bruce Montgomery, Carlos Estes
Space Shuttle astronaut Joan Higgenbotham
Walter Koenig, "Pavel Checkov" of Star Trek
Late Blues legend Koko Taylor.
Max Gail of "Barney Miller"
Chicago Mayor Richie Daley, taken at Chicago Principal for a Day luncheon
WGN anchor/reporter, Marri Dee
Tom Baker, Dr. Who #4
Juanita Jordan, wife of Michael Jordan (at the time)
with Pat Brickhouse, wife of the late Jack Brickhouse
Wife Donna, Rev. Jesse Jackson, State Representative Connie Howard and Claude Spivey former member of Parliament & Funkadelic
WIth Reverend WIllie Barrow
Educator, civil rights activist, historian and author Timuel Black
With my wife Donna and late WVON radio legend Richard Pegue
Tribune columnist and WGN radio host Rick Cogan. In 2016 I was interviewed on Rick's program
With Rick Kogan after interview on WGN Radio
Award winning TV News anchor Deboragh Crable and radio host and producer Richard Steel with my wife Donna
With James Doohan, "Mr. Scott" of Star Trek
Marcus Roberts, jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher
Table Tennis champion Kōji Matsushita
Jazz violinist Regina Carter
Pemon Remi, actor, producer who has worked with
Cab Calloway, Chaka Khan, Angela Bassett, John Belushi,
Aretha Franklin, James Earl Jones, Sammy Davis Jr., and more
With Geoffrey Baer (virtually) on WTTW's Great Chicago Quiz Show
Theo Jansen, creator of the Strandbeest moving sculptures.
https://www.strandbeest.com/
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Mills
At the Martin Luther King Memorial, Washington, DC
Prominent attorney and WVON radio host Ernesto Borges
With jazz pianist Keiko Matsui
With Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Chicago Klaas van der Tempel
With Linda Yu WLS TV news anchor
Chicago Blues legend Mary Lane