Art Bell became a licensed amateur radio operator at the age of 13

Arthur William "Art" Bell, III on the air at KSBK in Okinawa

Art and his wife Airyn

Art is a retired broadcaster and author known primarily as one of the
founders and the original host of the paranormal–themed radio program
Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion
show Dreamland. Semi-retired from Coast to Coast AM since 2003, he
hosted the show many weekends for the following four years. He retired
from weekend hosting on July 1, 2007.

During the Vietnam War, Art served as a medic in the United States Air
Force. After leaving military service he stayed in Asia, living on the
Japanese island of Okinawa where he worked as a disc jockey for
KSBK, the only non-military English-language station in Japan

Art with daughter Asia

                     Happy Birthday “Spotty”

 
The microphone used by Iva Toguri D’Aquino, known as “Tokyo Rose”, on display in the National Museum of American History.

The name "Tokyo Rose" is strongly associated with Iva Toguri D’Aquino, an
American citizen born to Japanese immigrants. D’Aquino broadcast as "Orphan
Ann" during the 15-20 minute D.J. segment of the 75-minute program The Zero
Hour on Radio Tokyo (NHK). The program consisted of propaganda-tinged skits
and slanted news reports as well as popular American music .Rose routinely
identified American units on air, sometimes even naming individual soldiers. Her purported predictions of impending attacks were, according to many, extremely
accurate.

Iva Toguri in front of the microphone at Radio Tokyo in
September 1945.

Toguri was pardoned by President Gerald Ford 
in 1977.

 

                        Dean Martin (Dino Paul Crocetti)

                      (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995)

The comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

The Rat Pack,Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Joey
Bishop on the set of Ocean’s 11, 1960

Archie Andrews was a long-running radio show, based on the comic book
series. It aired on the NBC Blue Network, switching to Mutual in 1944. It went
back to NBC in 1945 and ran till September 5, 1953. The original Archie was
played by Charles Mullen. Jughead was portrayed by Hal Stone (below) and
Cameron Andrews for the NBC run. Betty was played Rosemary Rice and
Gloria Mann was Veronica. The initial announcer was Kenneth Banghart.

Hal Stone

Swift and Company sponsored the show during the 1947 to 1948 season

show that began on the NBC Blue Network on May 31, 1943, switched to Mutual
in 1944, and then continued on NBC from 1945 until September 5, 1953. The
program’s original announcer was Kenneth Banghart, later succeeded by Bob
Shepard (during the 1947-48 season, when Swift and Company sponsored the 
program) and Dick Dudley. Archie was first played by Charles Mullen, Jack
Grimes and Burt Boyar, with Bob Hastings (below) as the title character during 
the NBC years. Jughead was portrayed by Hal Stone and Cameron Andrews. For 
the NBC run, Betty was portrayed by Rosemary Rice (below), and Veronica by
Gloria Mann.