Porter, James, “Porter, James (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed April 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29377.
James Porter served in the US Navy during the final year of WWII, and then spent forty-one years working for Commonwealth Edison, in Illinois. While still in high school, he worked at the University of Chicago, cutting graphite used in the Manhattan Project.