Page 36 - Jackie Robinson: Patriot

“

I wouldn’t fly the flag on the Fourth of July or any other
”
day. When I see a car with a flag pasted on it I figure

the guy behind the wheel isn’t my friend.

– Jack Roosevelt Robinson, in an interview

with the New York Times, July 4, 1969

Robinson with Ma jor General Francis Sampson,

Army Chief of Chaplains and Chaplain Colonel
Lindsay at the 1969 Annual Command Chaplains

Conference, August 21, 1969.

Courtesy of the Robinson Family Collection

34 Jack Roosevelt Robinson: Patriot