“He was a little bit reluctant about having a sculpture of himself put on City Hall Plaza,” Hirsch said. “It wasn’t something that he was very interested in seeing, and that was consistent with the man that he was.”

Russell agreed to the project so long as it promoted and raised money for mentorship programs. So Hirsch went to Seattle to have lunch with Russell and his daughter, attorney Karen Russell. She ended up speaking with him for nine hours…”