It is hard to pin down Kris Kristofferson. Is he a songwriter, a performer or an actor? And did that prestigious Rhodes Scholarship have anything to do with any of the above? Kristofferson was born in Texas in 1936, the son of an Air Force officer. He attended Pomona College in California, becoming immersed in sports (football player, boxer, sportswriter) while earning top grades and winning the Rhodes Scholarship to attend England’s Oxford University to study English literature. Continue...