Carl Theodore Vogelgesang (January 11, 1869 – February 16, 1927) was a United States Navy rear admiral and Navy Cross recipient. He was the first U.S. Navy flag officer from California.
Read more about Carl Theodore Vogelgesang: Early Life, United States Naval Academy, Marriage and Family, Early Service, Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, Peacetime Service, 1900-1914, Veracruz, Naval War College, World War I, and Navy Cross, Post-World War I Service, Naval Commissioner To Brazil, Final Years, Death, Namesakes, Military Career
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“Oh no, it wasn’t the aviators, it was beauty that killed the beast.”
—James Creelman, screenwriter, Ruth Rose, screenwriter, Merian Cooper, and Ernest Schoedsack. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)