Remembering Charles Van Doren, Dick Cole, Lotte Heimann Gruenfeld

Charles Van Doren was the embodiment of the television quiz show scandals of the 1950’s. A hero at first for his performance on the show Twenty One, he was exposed for receiving the answers and left the public eye in ignominy. Dick Cole was the last survivor of Doolittle’s Raiders, the pilots organized by Jimmy Doolittle for the first bombing raid on Tokyo in April of 1942. Dick Cole was Jimmy Doolittle’s copilot. Lotte Heimann Gruenfeld lived a remarkable life, growing up in prewar Berlin and escaping the Nazis were her family by travelling to Shanghai during the Japanese occupation. She was able to land in Colorado after the war.