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To: wm_tate; Jeff Head

Lester Crown & family

Lester Crown (born 1926) is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (d. 1990), who created Material Service with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. He has been a perennial member of the Forbes 400 list since 1982.

He is a major benefactor of Jewish charities, universities and the Aspen Institute. He is the chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago and Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Crown


4 posted on 06/13/2008 6:01:46 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Beckwith; Fred Nerks; Candor7

Has Philanthropist Lester Crown Been Duped by Islamists?

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3275


5 posted on 06/13/2008 6:03:36 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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