I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
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I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that.
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
My mother was a Rockette at Radio City.