Editing Jon Hendricks (section)

==World War II==
As a soldier during [[World War II]], Hendricks took part in the [[Normandy landings|D-Day landings]] of June, 1944, and was later attached to the quartermaster's headquarters in France. When he and some black fellow soldiers were shot at by white US military police for consorting with white French women, they went on the run with truckloads of army supplies, remaining at large until eventually recaptured and court-martialled in November 1945. By then the war was over, and Hendricks served only 11 months in the stockade before returning home to attend [[University of Toledo]] on the [[G.I. Bill]] as a pre-law major.<ref name="thisisbop" /> Just when he was about to enter the graduate law program, the G.I. benefits ran out. Jon met his first wife Colleen "Connie" Moore in Toledo. They were married and eventually had 4 children.<ref name="thisisbop" /> One night in 1950, Hendricks got up and scatted at a [[Charlie Parker]] gig in Toledo. Parker encouraged him to come to New York and look him up. Hendricks moved his family there two years later and resumed his singing career.