McNulty Sr, Kevin

American flying ace who flew for the Royal Flying Corp in World War I before the United States entered the war. Shot down from 8,000 feet, he was capture by the Germans and escaped by jumping from a moving prison train. He walked seventy-two days through Western Europe to Holland and freedom. He was a national hero and the top speaker in 1918. He ended his career in Hollywood as a silent film star and was found dead with a bullet to his head the Hamilton Hotel in Los Angeles at age thirty. The circumstances of his death continue to be disputed. He was buried in his hometown of Momence, Illinoi...