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George Stephen Morrison (January 7, 1919 – November 17, 2008) was a United States Navy rear admiral (upper half) and naval aviator. Morrison held significant commands of United States naval forces during the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors.
On April 23, Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison, commander of U.S. Naval forces on Guam, was ordered to "accept, shelter, process and care for refugees as they were removed from South Vietnam." [3]: 63 [4] More than 130,000 Vietnamese were evacuated from South Vietnam by air and sea during the last few days of April.
Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir John Henry George Chapple KCB CVO - retired 1 July 1918. Retroactively promoted to that rank in 1919 with seniority of 6 March 1918; Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir William Marcus Charles Beresford Whyte (1863–1932) - promoted to the rank of Paymaster-Director-General 1 July 1918 and to Paymaster Rear-Admiral on 8 November 1918, the first proper paymaster rear-admiral.
Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida, to Clara Virginia (née Clarke; 1919–2005) and Lt.(j.g.) George Stephen Morrison (1919–2008), a future rear admiral in the United States Navy. [15]
George Ball stated that the mission of the destroyer warship involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident "was primarily for provocation." [ 52 ] According to Ray McGovern , CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, the CIA, "not to mention President Lyndon Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy all knew full ...
The interview also highlighted the family's work to create the Matthew Perry Foundation of Canada. Suzanne Morrison shared Perry with her ex-husband John Bennett Perry, their only child together.
Members of Morrison’s inner circle were interviewed in the new docuseries Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison (out now), including Andy Morrison, who offered rare insight into his older ...
Admiral George Stephen Morrison, USN – father of The Doors' lead singer, Jim Morrison; Commander Alan G. Poindexter, USN – NASA astronaut and Navy test pilot; Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree, USN – made two Arctic expeditions, was the second acting governor of American Samoa, and served as commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet