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REMEMBER THIS CBS WESTERN SERIES?

Have Gun – Will Travel is a Western television series that was
produced and originally broadcast by
CBS on both television
and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of
the series starring
Richard Boone was rated number three
or number four in the
Nielsen ratings every year of its first
four seasons.

Have Gun – Will Travel was one of the few shows in television
history to spawn a successful radio version.

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Richard Allen Boone
(June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981)

Have Gun Will Travel: Blind Courage by Original Radio Broadcast - Radio/TV Program - Audible.com.au
John Dehner (November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992)

Radio Range Riders-- Have Gun Will Travel, by Boyd Magers

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The sound effects department.

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WHEN TV WAS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL

You Are There - kids had to be quiet or no Disneyland after the show! | Thanks for the memories ...

The historical/education program You Are There originally started
as a CBS radio program and  made a transition to television in 1953,        
with
Walter Cronkite as the regular host.

Reporters included veteran radio announcers Dick Joy and Harlow Wilcox. The first telecast took place on February 1, 1953, featuring         
a re-enactment of the
Hindenburg disaster. The final telecast took
place on October 13, 1957.
        

Originally telecast live, most of the later episodes were produced
on film.

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Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

  Radio Spirits » Blog Archive » Happy Birthday, Harlow Wilcox!
Dick Joy                                          Harlow Wilcox         

WALTER CRONKITE - YOU ARE THERE - 12 EPISODE 6 DVD HISTORY DOCUMENTARY BOX SET | Boxset ...

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BELOVED KANSAS CITY DJ HAS DIED AT 44

Tragedy at Chiefs Rally: Radio Host Lisa Lopez-Galvan Killed in Mass Shooting

Lisa Lopez-Galvan has been identified as a victim of the
Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting that saw 29
injured,
including nine children. 

Beloved Kansas City disc jockey and mother-of-two, 44, is confirmed as the dead victim of Kansas ...

Raja Thatha's stotra translations: Daily prayer schedule

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MUSIC OUTLAW DIED ON THIS DAY IN 2002

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Waylon Jennings - Wikipedia

WAYLON JENNINGS 1937-2002 / Country rebel fought for music, won many fans

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Singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.Waylon Jennings is
considered one of the pioneers of the
outlaw movement in
country music.

Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed
at fourteen on
KVOW radio, after which he formed his first
band, the Texas Longhorns. Jennings left high school at age
sixteen, determined to become a musician, and worked as a
performer and DJ on KVOW,
KDAV, KYTI, KLLL, in Coolidge,
Arizona
, and Phoenix. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’
first recording session, a cover of
Jole Blon, and hired him to
play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the
ill-fated flight in
1959 that crashed and killed Holly,
J. P. "the Big Bopper"
Richardson
and Ritchie Valens.

Jennings died in his sleep from complications of diabetes at
his home in
Chandler, Arizona, aged 64.

Buddy, Waylon & The Ariel Cyclone — Poet Motors
Waylon Jennings ,left, on bass guitar and Buddy Holly.

   

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NPR ‘MORNING EDITION’ HOST HAS DIED

Bob Edwards, 25-Year Voice of NPR's 'Morning Edition,' Dead At 76 - Radio Ink

Bob Edwards, longtime NPR 'Morning Edition' host, dies at 76: 'A trusted voice'

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Edwards, who anchored National Public
Radio’s “Morning Edition” for just under 25 years and was the
baritone voice who told many Americans what had happened
while they slept, has died.

Edwards, who died Saturday, was 76 years old. NPR gave no
further details.

His cause of death was reported to be "metastatic bladder
cancer and a heart ailment."

Quietly, Bob Edwards walks away | MPR News
Red Barber, left, is shown with Bob Edwards on Oct. 22, 1992.
(AP)

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