It was a quiet evening in October 1943 when Jennifer Jones, with an air of heavy resignation, told her husband Robert Walker that she wanted to separate.
He’d sensed something was wrong for months, but hearing the words aloud struck him like a blow he hadn’t braced for.
The marriage he cherished, and the life they had built together, seemed to dissolve in front of him.
Shocked and heartbroken, Robert turned to the one thing that would offer him a temporary escape: The bottle ...
A rebel finds his stage
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 13, 1918, Robert Hudson Walker had a boyhood marked by restlessness.
A wild spirit, Robert regularly found himself in trouble; for pulling other children’s hair, for skipping class ... and that was…
