“Lone Star Jr” wins his first Indy 500

It took Johnny Rutherford a decade to win his first Indianapolis 500, but on Memorial Day 1974 his dream finally came true.John Sherman Rutherford III was born in 1938 in Coffeyville, Kansas which may come as something of surprise to many of his fans that know him as “Lone Star Jr.” They can, however, take comfort in the fact that while still a preschooler his family brought him to F...