WGN Radio 720Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut who flew in space four times including aboard the first trip around the moon on Apollo 8 and part of the crew that turned a near disaster into a triumph of human ingenuity on Apollo 13, has died at age 97. A resident of Lake Forest, Lovell was a frequent guest on WGN Radio. Here are some of those visits:
His final visit, with Bob Sirott in October 2024:
With Bob Sirott, part of our Your Hometown series, talking about his hometown, Lake Forest, in September 2022:
With Spike O'Dell in 2006:
With Milt Rosenberg, April 10, 2000:
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