John Aalberg(1897-1984)

John Aalberg was best friends with Ed Kappel in Chicago. They were both in the Projectionist Union, the rules back then only allowed brothers or sons to join, (William Leonard) was the brother of May (Leonard) Kappel, the wife of Ed, Bill changed his name to Kappel in order to get in the Union. Ed Kappel was offered a sound job in Los Angeles, which he turned down because he did not think he had the education to handle it. Since Aalberg was a graduate of Armour Tech in Chicago, Ed let Aalberg take the job. Because of this and his friendship with Ed and the difficult times in Chicago, Aaalberg hired Ed Leonard at Universal, then Ed asked Aalberg to hire Willie (Kappel) Leonard as things became bad in Chicago after the head of the union, Tommy Malloy was murdered, and that's how the, Leonard's, Henderson's and Murray's became successful in the industry. Bill Leonard worked at 20th Century as a Projectionist in 1939, when his daughter, Sheila Leonard married Robert Henderson, he got him in the Union and became a Sound Editor with two Academy Award nominations, when Bob Henderson's, daughter, Lynnell Henderson married Alan Murray, he got Alan a job as a Sound Editor who not only has been nominated 4 times for an Academy Award, he won for the Sound in Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" Alan and Bob began working with Clint on the Movie "Escape From Alcatraz" Now all three of Lynnell and Alan's children work at Warner Bros.