Bass Pro Shops Founder Johnny Morris Remembers WWII Veteran Father: ‘How Can We Ever Forget Them?’
Bass Pro Shops founder/CEO Johnny Morris began selling fishing tackle in his father’s Brown Derby Liquor Store in Springfield, Mo., in 1972. Now, 50 years later, Bass Pro Shops boasts more than 170 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, with more than 40,000 employees. Johnny started his angling empire...