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More than ‘Maverick’: James Garner and the forgotten Purple Heart

Jul 21, 2014

FILE - Actor James Garner, left, smiles as he holds up the Purple Heart medal presented to him in a ceremony in this Monday, Jan. 24, 1983 file photo taken Los Angeles, Calif. Garner was wounded in April 1951 while with U.S. Forces in Korea, but his medal was never presented to him. Actor James Garner, wisecracking star of TV's "Maverick" who went on to a long career on both small and big screen, died Saturday July 19, 2014 according to Los angeles police. He was 86. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

A recent appreciation for James Garner, the iconic actor who died Saturday at age 86, called him "the epitome of the reluctant hero."

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