“I know if I hadn’t given Rock my tickets, he would have been alive.”

Father John Reynolds is the star witness in the trial of a Capone hit man accused of murdering a Chicago Tribune reporter.

One day after getting off the witness stand, the Notre Dame priest gives his plane ticket to his friend, legendary football coach Knute Rockne.

Three days later, the plane explodes.

It’s the crime of the 20th Century that no one knows happened… that was never supposed to happen.

“… dribs and drabs of this story have been around since Rockne’s plane crashed. But I’ve never seen it laid out in this full way, nor with the quotes at the end from the reputed actual target of the bomb. Amazing stuff…”

Keith Olbermann, ESPN

“… this is really well researched, archived information, which was known popularly at the time. This isn’t some work of fiction where you’re pulling names out of the sky.”

Ian Punnett, Coast to Coast AM


Special hardcover expanded edition “Rockne of Ages” features the story of the crash plus Knute Rockne’s life and philosophy in his own words and more than 300 rare, historical photographs.