Mary Gwinn Bowe and The 1960 Kennedy Presidential Campaign
Editor's Note: In 1960, John F. Kennedy was running for President. After a September campaign event in our apartment living room with Ethel and Joan Kennedy, the wives of his JFK's brothers Robert and Edward Kennedy, my mother joins the soon-to-be-elected President at an event in his Chicago campaign office. Also attending are then Mayor Richard J. Daley, and later Mayor Jane Byrne.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker Comes to Call
As an empty nester living in a cul-de-sac of eight houses in Northbrook, IL, I was hard at work minding my own business Saturday morning. I was reading the newspaper on my living room sofa when Cathy answered a knock on our front door. When her short conversation finished, I asked her who it was. She said the Governor was nearby and would be knocking on our door shortly.
Jane Byrne Burned – Chicago Politics in the 1970s
An unusually prominent front page story appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 22,1980. It reported details of Mayor Jane Bryne’s transition team report and revealed me to be an author of part of the previously secret study, as well as the immediate source of its startling revelations.
France 2022
With the pandemic and lockdown fading fast in the rear view mirror, I proposed to my son Pat that he join me in visiting our cousins in France this summer.
80th Birthday Party
[Automatically generated subtitles in both English and French can be read or turned off by clicking on the CC (Closed Captions) button on the lower right corner of the video.] Bill Bowe Remarks Remarques de [...]
Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Human/Machine Interface
Who would have guessed that at the end of the 20th Century it would be a company founded in Scotland in 1768 that would invent a key part of the mechanics that would let people intuitively navigate the electronic flood of text, sound and images soon to drench the planet from the internet?
Mayor Lori Lightfoot at EeroQ Quantum Hardware
On September 15, 2022, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot took time off from her campaign for a second term as Mayor. She left City Hall in the Loop to travel to Humboldt Park, a neighborhood on the city's West Side. A lawyer by training not noted for her scientific interests, she joined a crowd uniquely devoted to exploring the hidden secrets of next new thing, quantum computing.
Bernardine Dohrn & John Ashcroft Look Back
Bernardine Dohrn Bernardine Speaks John Ashcroft John Speaks Class of 1967, 55th Reunion University of Chicago Law School Editor's Note: In April 2022, two dozen members of the Class of 1967 [...]
Richard Lawrence Gwinn, Jr. (1867-1932)
My grandfather, Richard Lawrence Gwinn, Jr., was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1867. He attended Calvert College there and pursued a career in banking and public service. He died in Baltimore in 1932 after suffering a stroke.
