People from LaSalle County, Illinois

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Chapters: People from Cedar Point, Illinois, People from Dalzell, Illinois, People from Earlville, Illinois, People from LaSalle, Illinois, People from Marseilles, Illinois, People from Mendota, Illinois, People from North Utica, Illinois, People from Oglesby, Illinois, People from Ottawa, Illinois, People from Peru, Illinois, People from Sheridan, Illinois, People from Streator, Illinois, People from Tonica, Illinois, People from Troy Grove, Illinois, Clyde Tombaugh, James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., William D. Boyce, Wild Bill Hickok, Fritz Crisler, Maria Kanellis, Worthy S. Streator, Tom Flanagan, Jerry Weller, Slip Madigan, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, John J. Myers, Johnston McCulley, Donold Lourie, George R. Lawrence, John Hossack, John Kochurov, Harry Kelly, Edward Edson Lee, Kevin Chalfant, Jim Bottomley, Reed G. Landis, Ray Jauch, Theodore Nevin Morrison, Daniel Freeman, W. H. L. Wallace, Burt Baskin, Silas H. Strawn, Emil Lockwood, Dick Jamieson, Edward Hebern, Bob McGrath, Arthur L. Wagner, David P. Jenkins, Russell Lee, Charlotte Merriam, Clay Zavada, Alexander Wilson, Theophilus Lyle Dickey, Aaron Shea, Roger L. Eddy, Bill Brown, J. Leonard Reinsch, Philip C. Hayes, Doug Dieken, Walt Willey, Tim Finchem, Russ Meyer, Dwight M. Sabin, Tom Corcoran, George "Honey Boy" Evans, Heinie Berger, Si Johnson, Edward H. Plumb, Charles Cyrus Kearns, Burton C. Cook, Adam Shabala, Stephen L. Brusatte, William Cullen, Thomas L. Kilbride, Ralph Plumb, Guy Hoffman, Howard Fletcher, Holger Toftoy, Mary Lee Robb, Joe Rutgens, Walter Reeves, Clarence E. Mulford, Dante Magnani, Karen Tallian, Frank Seno, Ken Sears, Leo Cahill, Barbara Shearer, R. C. Johnson, Ed Mickelson, Andy Bednar, Frederic M. Scherer, Frank Lamanske, John Fitzpatrick, Franklin Corwin, Ken Gorgal, Charles Edgar Woodward, Thomas E. Reedy, Frank Vlastnik, Hal Cherne. Excerpt: James Thomas Aubrey, Jr. (December 14, 1918 - September 3, 1994) was a leading American television and film executive. President of the CBS television network during the early 1960s, he put some of television's most enduring series on the air, including Gilligan's Island and The Beverly Hillbillies. Under Aubrey, CBS dominated American television the way General Motors and General Electric dominated their industries. The New York Times Magazine in 1964 called Aubrey "a master of programming whose divinations led to successes that are breathtaking." Aubrey, replaced CBS Television President Louis Cowan, who was slowly dismissed after the quiz show scandals . Despite his successes in television, Aubrey's abrasive personality and oversized ego - "Picture Machiavelli and Karl Rove at a University of Colorado football recruiting party" wrote Variety in 2004 - led to his firing from CBS amid charges of improprieties. "The circumstances rivaled the best of CBS adventure or mystery shows," declared The New York Times in its front-page story on his firing, which came on "the sunniest Sunday in February" 1965. He earned the nickname "Smiling Cobra" for his brutal decision-making ways. Aubrey governed CBS with firm grip and it did not go unnoticed. He had great success selecting network programs in the beginning, but was suddenly dismissed in February of 1965. Aubrey offered no explanation following his dismissal, nor did CBS President Frank Stanton or Board Chairman William Paley . After four years as an independent producer, Aubrey was hired by financier Kirk Kerkorian to preside ove...