ABSTRACT
Jack was born during the year of the tiger, 1938. Mary Haliday Finlayson and John Richard Nichols, his parents, were high school sweethearts. “Mom was a Scottish-American beauty and Dad was a top-notch high school athlete. At the time of my birth he was in training with the Chicago White Sox, but he returned to Washington to get a ‘responsible’ job as a special agent for the FBI.”
