George Stephen Morrison destroyers to prevent flight operations by attempting to cross the path of the "Hancock". In 1972, he was appointed Commander Naval Forces Marianas. As such, he was in charge of relief efforts for Vietnamese refugees sent to Guam after the fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975. Rear Admiral Morrison was the keynote speaker at the decommissioning ceremony for the carrier "Bon Homme Richard", his first ship as an admiral, on July 2, 1971 in Washington D.C.. His estranged son, rock musician Jim Morrison, died in Paris at age 27 the following day. Morrison retired from the Navy in
The Doors (film) inaccurate. Another glaring inaccuracy: prior to the concert, a hippie reporter on the scene makes a derogatory comment about the band's fourth studio album "The Soft Parade", which had not yet been completed and would not be released until July of that year. The surviving Doors members were all to one degree or another unhappy with the final product, and were said to have heavily criticized Stone's portrayal of Morrison as an "out of control sociopath." In a 1991 interview with Gary James, Manzarek criticized Stone for exaggerating Morrison's alcohol consumption in the movie, saying, "Jim with a bottle all