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The Father and Sons Banquet sponsored by the Knights of Columbus on February 17, 1927 treated guests to an address from Notre Dame's Knute Rockne. One lucky attendee had the gumption to ask Mr. Rockne for a signature on the front of this 4x6" program. Rockne, featured at the top, ranks in at a 7/10 pencil signature. Rockne died in the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air airliner in Kansas on March 31, 1931, while en route to participate in the production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame. He had stopped in Kansas City to visit his two sons, Bill and Knute Jr., who were in boarding school there at the Pembroke-Country Day School. A little over an hour after taking off from Kansas City, one of the Fokker Trimotor's wings broke up in flight. The cause of the damage was determined to be that the plane's plywood outer skin was bonded to the ribs and spars with water-based aliphatic resin glue and flight in rain had caused the bond to deteriorate to the point that sections of the plywood suddenly separated. The plane crashed into a wheat field near Bazaar, Kansas, killing Rockne and seven others. LOA JSA.