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John Kennedy photo by Don Sparks

JFK in downtown Chicago with Major Daley and Senator Paul Douglas

Jesse Jackson photo by Don Sparks

Jesse Jackson

Muhammad Ali and Jesse Jackson photo by Don Sparks

Muhammad Ali with Jesse Jackson at Operation Push in Chicago.

John F Kennedy photo by Don Sparks

JFK on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr photo by Don Sparks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on Chicago's South Side.

Astronauts photo by Don Sparks

Gemini astronauts John White and Gus Grissom in downtown Chicago in 1965.

Chuck Percy photo by Don Sparks

Senator Chuck Percy at Wrigley Field

Hugh Hefner photo by Don Sparks

Hugh Hefner at the opening of the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva in 1968

Jackie Robinson photo by Don Sparks

Don drove Jackie downtown after a game so Jackie could get a new tie for a dinner

Hubert Humphrey photo by Don Sparks

VP Hubert Humphrey during a parade with the astronauts

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr photo by Don Sparks

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr on Chicago's South Side

Joe Louis photo by Don Sparks

Joe Louis at Golden Gloves boxing tournament

Manhattan Project scientists photo by Don Sparks

Manhattan Project scientists who worked on the first nuclear reaction under the football stands at the University of Chicago, gathering on the 20th anniversary in 1962. "Man achieved here the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated the controlled release of nuclear energy"

Harlem Globetrotters photo by Don Sparks

The Harlem Globetrotters visiting a school

Don Sparks Photography

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