Photograph, (left to right) Capital Airlines director of public relations Jennings Randolph, Mr. Tichenor, Mr. Dearborn, American Airlines president Ralph S. Damon, BOAC vice-president Gordon Bulloch and Shell Union Oil Company vice-president General James Doolittle, 11 June 1947. Doolittle was a military aviation pioneer who helped develop instrument flying between the World Wars. On 18 April 1942 he led a formation of sixteen B-25 bombers on a raid over the Japanese mainland, for which he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. In 1989 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the first person to have received both. Jennings Randolph Collection, West Virginia State Archives
Jennings Randolph: Stars in His Eyes