(UNDATED) — Hawkeye football legend Nile Kinnick, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1939, is the subject of a new 90-minute documentary that’s on the big screen in select Iowa theaters and online via the website Vimeo. Iowa filmmaker Scott Siepker says “Kinnick: The Documentary” offers audiences an in-depth look into Kinnick’s rise to fame on-field at the University of Iowa and his service during World War Two. Siepker says Kinnick had a clear plan laid out for his future which included a life of public service. He says many historians believe Kinnick could have become a U-S Senator — and maybe even president of the United States. But Kinnick enlisted in the Navy Air Corps Reserves and was killed in 1943 while on a training flight from the aircraft carrier U-S-S Lexington. Kinnick was 24.
