Theodore Kaczynski, the future Unibomber, about five months before his first bombing, at a party in Chicago in late November or early December 1977. (I'm not kidding.) As far as I know, no one else at the party was anti-technology or a psychopath, but the only people I actually knew there was an ex-girlfriend and her brother, so who knows.


Jerry Miculek, at an indoor range in High Point, NC, in the early 1990s. He was doing some exhibition shooting, and we talked for about 15 minutes. Very amiable guy.

For any fans of the Chicago blues who might know the name, I spent about 20 minutes at a bar talking with guitarist Mighty Joe Young.

Lucille Ball - I made her laugh & have the picture to prove it
Bill Veeck

I was Easter Seal Poster Kid for MA in 1970

I spent about 10 minutes talking one on one with Bob Dylan outside the hotel he was staying at in KC. He was just like you think he'd be.

Smoked a joint with one of the Drifters a long time ago...

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I had the honor of meeting this man in 1985 while stationed with D 1/48 INF 3rd AD Medal of Honor: Thomas Kelly and I also treated an individual that climbed Mt Everest and a few other notable adventures.

I worked security for universal studios for awhile in the early 60s so met a lot of actors, knew a double handfull, a few friends. I pissed off a couple actors you would know. Then I worked as a security guard for lockheed aircraft 65 to 2000. In that capacity I probley knew most of the test pilots you could name. Gary Francis Powers was a favorite for the short time I knew him. A real low key humble guy, rare for most test pilots. He switched jobs and got killed flying a news chopper. I could probley list a 100 or more movie stars, but why? Jimmy stewart and brian keith were nice guys. Not too many politicians, thank God! Saw president Regan once. Once had a girl friend that was a bunney.
Got my first kiss from Kitty Wells when I was about 6 years old watching her at a county fair. At that time I thought yuck!

Clayton Moore, "The Lone Ranger", back about '58-'59

Lester Mattox, in a parade outside of Atlanta, about '73

Larry McDonald, U.S. Congressman from Georgia and president of the John Birch Society. Killed in the shooting down of KAL flight 007 back in '83. I knew him when he was my congressman when I lived in Georgia. I witnessed him ordered out of a McDonald's burger joint in Marietta, Ga. when he was running for office.

Lt.Col. Jimmy "Bo" Grites. Famous Green Beret, MOH winner and war hero.

Randy Weaver of "Ruby Ridge" fame and his daughter Elizabeth at an expo/book signing in Denver back in '99.

James Nichols, brother of Terry Nichols, co-conspirator of the OKC bombing at the same Denver expo. He believed his brother to be innocent.

Thunderbolt Patterson, wrestler and at that time out of Atlanta, about '74-'75.

Larry Pratt, president of GOA.

Sheriff Richard Mack of Graham County, Az. He is the man that took the feds to court over the Brady Bill.

Does this count?......My brother-in-law knew Buford Pusser of "Walking Tall" fame. He described him as a huge, rawboned, head busting redneck and as a man that no one in his right mind would get on the wrong side of.

Mickey Mantle in the early '70's when he was opening his first (failed) restaurant chain. He even gave me a miniture autographed bat. (Wish I still had it.)

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Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Richard Petty in the early 90's at Pocono speedway had my picture taken with both of them !

I ran into Sammy Davis Jr., literally, in downtown Detroit. He apologized for not looking where he was going. Nice man.

Also chatted it up with 2 of the Oakridge Boys at the Opryland Hotel one night.

Check out the November 1975 issue of Playboy Magazine for Vicki Vannini. She worked for me before she got the gig for Hef's mag, and went into modeling.

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Hey, here is another. Ed Gein! When I was a 10 year old in 1951 my mother ran him off when she caught him peaking in her bedroom window!
A few years after that moms cousins husband who was sheriff of waushara county wisconsin arrested him for a couple of murders and a lot of grave robberys. He was the killer-goule-cannible that inspired the movie, "silence of the lambs." He sure was famous for awhile!

In the 1960's my Father was the treasurer for a summer stock theater. I met lots of entertainers Hollywood and Broadway stars. I felt like a bigshot around age 12 when the family and I went out to dinner with Liberace twice.

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Probably the nicest I ever met was the "Chick' Hearn the Laker Basketball announcer. Really nice guy! Having breakfast in a very small restaurant in San Fernando Valley, CA.

Denver Dick posted: "On the very table we were working on I see spotted an Academy Award (Oscar), no special display or anything, it was just sitting there. You don't see those everyday."

Dick, fascinating story. We had and Oscar in our home for years. Belonged to my wife's uncle. He filmed all the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road to ........films." They used to delay production until he was available. Mr Hope and Mr Crosby wanted him. He also did most of the W C Fields movies.

He got the Oscar for Michael Todd's "Around the World in 80 Days." My step-daughter has it now along with the two Emmy's he won.

He, too, was a great guy.

Jungle Larry.
He was pulling the skin from a boa constrictor and gave the cute kid in the crowd the skin (I was that kid)

Michael Martin Murphy. He has been to North Dakota three times to do Concerts and I have always gone.

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Military:
Carlos Hathcock. Met him at his Brother & SIL house in Mississippi in 1993.
Jimmy Doolittle. Met him at an air show in 1982.
"Gabby" Gabreski. Met him at an air show mid 80's. Top USAAC Ace ETO WW2, Ace during Korean War. He was one of only seven pilots to be named an ace in both WW2 and Korea.

Music:
Ted Nugent after a concert, he was jammin with the house band in 1981.
Billy Joel. Radio Promo. Won four concert tickets and dinner with him before the show. Also saw him playing a local bar after the dinner and concert in 1985.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, AKA The BEATLES. I was about seven years old and in NOLA with my family visiting aunts, uncles, cousins and grand parents. We were seated at the table next to them. Had Poloroid picture and autographs, long lost to time. 1967-68.
Justin Timberlake. I did security upgrades at his home north of Memphis. 2006.
Britney Spears. Met her when she was dating Justin Timberlake.

TV/Movies:
Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris and Holly Hunter. I did some work for the filming of the movie "The Firm" and was cast as an "Extra". I ended up on the cutting room floor along with most of the work I did for the production company. 1993.
Peter Graves (Mission Impossible). Met him at Lakefront Airport in NOLA, 1985.
Morgan Freeman. Good friend of a friend of mine (Freeman was Best Man at his wedding). We have been to his restaurant, Madidi, in Clarksdale, MS and his home in Charleston, MS on several occasions.
Don Rickles. Met him and his mother in W Palm Beach. 1982.
Linda Carter (Wonder Woman). I use to work for Maybelline Cosmetics (1980-1988). She was the spokes person for one of the Maybelline brands. 1984.
Steven Seagal. Met him at a pistol range I shoot at. I've talked with him and seen him there several times. He LOVES his Caspian 1911's.
Paula Deen. Ate at her restaurant last year and she was on sight.
Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant. Met them in a restaurant in NYC. 1992.

Sports:
Shane Battier. Security upgrades to his house in Memphis. 2005.
Pau Gasol. Security upgrades to his condo in Memphis. 2005.
Tim McCarver. Met him on many occasions 1960's.
Don Kessinger. He owned a raquet ball court in Memphis in the 70's. Met him there on several occasions.
Julius "Dr. J" Erving. I worked for Schering Plough/Dr. Scholl Footcare Products 1988-1991. He was spokes person for one of their brands.
John Madden. I worked for Schering Plough/Dr. Scholl Footcare Products 1988-1991. He is spokes person for one of their brands.
Lyle Alzado. Sat next to him on a flight from Philly to Phoenix, he went on to LA. Monster size of a man but really friendly. 1983.

Politicians:
Ladybird and LBJ. 1964. Mobile, AL Political rally. Don't remember it, but I got the picure.
Richard Nixon. 1972. Political rally. Got the pictures and I remember this one.
Harold Ford, Jr. Former Congressman from TN. Did security upgrades in his condo in Memphis. 2006. Nice guy, but don't care for his politics.

Business World:
Ted Turner. Met him in Bozeman, MT last year.
Steve Jobs. Met him at his house in Memphis before he had liver transplant surgery. I went through the most thorough background check I've ever had just to do work on his house. The background check his people did was much more than the Secret Service background check I go through every year to maintain my government contractor security clearance.
Donald Trump. Met him in 1991. Good friend of one of my sisters.

Famous for being famous:
Roxanne Pulitzer. Kind of standoffish at first. Once you get to know her she is very personable.


If I sat here all night long I could list a few more.

Class III

I met Stevie wonder when he ran into me on the street. He apologized and said he didn't see where he was going !
I also met Elvis at a donut shop outside of Memphis .

The strang thing was I met them both on the same day ...........

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I was waiting for a cab @ 7:00 am and Muhammed Ali was waiting for his limo downstairs/outside at O'Hare. We talked for about 10 minutes (what about, I don't recall) until his entourage and girlfriend at the time Veronica Porsche came outside from the baggage area.
I found him to be very perseptive and friendly. I remember that I was surprised at how tall and large he was in person (I'm 6'-4" and felt small standing next to him)
A few weeks later he lost to Leon Spinks.
Never thought to get an autograph.

Steven Tyler
Joe Perry
Brad Whitford
Joey Krammer
Seth Green
Pattie LaBelle
Robin Williams
Jon Voigt
Robert Klein
Josh Todd and Stevie D. (Buckcherry)
Slash
Nikki Sixx
James Michael (Sixx AM)
Shakira
Jill Rappaport

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R. Lee Ermey, at Camp Pendleton.

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Jimmy Durante and Frank Gorshin when my grandmother was the wardrobe mistress for the shows at the Conrad Hilton and Palmer House, when I was in grade school.

Carlos Hathcock at the PA Gun Collectors Association Show in Monroeville.

Got communion once from Pope John Paul II. We weren't formally introduced, but he had his fingers in my mouth, so I'd say that counts.

I and another person went to NBC studios in Rockefeller Center for some high school newspaper thing, or a tour his brother had arranged for us - I don't remember why. We met Chuck Scarborough. But on the way out, a very tall man got onto the elevator with just the two of us. He was in a long black overcoat and wore a white silk scarf. He kind of looked down at me and smiled and I suppose waited for me to recognize him... which I didn't. I didn't even know who it was until we exited the elevator on the ground floor and a bunch of people came running over, exclaiming, "Charlton Heston!!!!"

Well, while in the Marines I was helping set up the lights and equipment for Marty Stuart's charity concert, probably not a big suprise but we got really drunk together. I also had the opportunity to shake Clinton's hand and I refused. I met David copperfield once and he was the rudest person I have ever met. not a whole lot of famous people. Someone posted that they met the playmate angela little, well, her brother was my roomate while in the military, never met her in person but I did talk to her on the phone briefly while her brother coming to the phone.

You are a God!!!I have his first 22 albums on cd.

I've met almost everyone from the tv show Hee Haw in the 1980's[except Buck and Roy],including the writers and producers,and Mickey D!!! By the way,great topic.

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Just the famous people here on the forum.

I met Sip once, but he won't remember me because I was disguised as Jimmy Stewart.

I guess the most memorable guy I ever met was Barry Goldwater when he visited the college I was attending a few months after his 1964 defeat. He impressed me as one of the most unaffected and together guys I had ever met, and 44 years later he still stands out that way in my mind. Met a bunch of local politicians in California who were important in a local way, but most of you won't know them except for former Senator and Governor Pete Wilson (no known relation). I got Adlai Stevenson's autograph when he ran for President in 1956. I guess I mostly met famous politicians who didn't make it to the top job. Almost met Hubert Humphrey but didn't shake his hand and so I guess I shouldn't count him.

Had a couple of lunches with writers who stick in my memory, John Hersey and Irving Stone. Hersey was every bit as smart and observant as his books would make you think he was, and Stone was a great deal smarter and more entertaining than his kind of ordinary potboiler novels would indicate.

I almost met Fess Parker in the late '60s when he made a bad freeway entry and found my car in the space he intended to occupy. But I was still young and had fast reactions, so no harm done.

My mother was the one who had the knack of meeting people that everyone else knew -- or would. Growing up in Austin in the '20s and '30s, she palled around with the girl that the rest of the world would eventually know as Nellie Connally. She crossed paths with a lot of rising Texas stars at that time, but lost touch with them when she moved to California in the '40s.

A hundred years from now what the heck difference will it make? Ten, even.

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Had breakfast with Bobby and Ethel Kennedy by chance at a Nantuckett restaurant. Went to high school with Playmate Carol Vitale, now deceased.

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Don Kesinger

Ron Santo , (several times)

Randy Huntley

Furgie Jenkins

Walter Payton , (several times)

Mike Singletary , (several times)

Mike Ditka, (several times)

Wiliam Perry "Da Frig"

Glen Becker

Mr T.

Debra Norvil , (I wish I could say several times)

Marlo Thomas ,(I wish I could say several times)

Dan Hampton

Mike Hartenstine

Freddie Fender (at the old Playboy club in Geneva Wisconsin)

Mike Scifres
(punter for the San Diago Chargers football team. My son played football and long snapped to him when Mike Scifres was at Western Illinois U.)

Mike Martz (his son also played football at Western IL.)


TRUMAN CAPODY
I onced honked my car horn and waved to him as he drove his car next to me on a Chicago expressway and he gave me the finger!

Does that count?

All except for Truman were nice and I talked to them at lenght, some on more than one occasion.

Little known fact that Mike Scifres turned down D-1 scholarships to play at Western IL. (a 1 AA team) because he wanted his brother on the team with him. D-1 teams wouldn't do that but Western IL. did so he went to the Western IL. 1 AA team to play taking a chance that he would never get looked at by the pro's. Says a lot about his family values! A great guy!


Kirmdog

I met Ronald Reagan when he was running for Pres in 1980. For you racing fans I did some carpentry work on Bobby Rahals house the year he won Indy for the first time. There are some funny stories about conversations you overhear when people consider you part of the woodwork.

Met Bob Hope after his last USO show. Though actually he was in my nieghborhood fairly often visiting family.

Great topic and thanks for sharing!

Al Pacino.

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Ted Nugent after a show- cool guy that guys got enthusiasm and intensity for days

Last time I was in Vegas I was at a hole in the wall diner and looked over at a person who was ordering something to go and nearly choked on my eggs. MIKE TYSON. Say what u want about this guy but he was a great boxer and he was a pretty cool person to talk to.

When I was a kid my family went to green bay to the packers training camp in the summer. We watched the offense run through some plays and chatted with some unknown QB that we just picked up from the falcons. Talked football, small towns and a plethora of other things. Who was the QB? Brett Favre. Have an autograph and picture.

Dinner with Cary Grant...July, 1976...Chicago.

Dinner with Joe Namath & Farrah Fawcett (a non-publicized dating couple)...1977...NYC.

Dinner with Margo Hemingway...1978...NYC.

Dinner with Lola Falana (WOW!)...1978...NYC.

Above 4 business dinners...they all worked for Faberge fragrance company...I was a purchasing agent for a large retail chain.

As an interesting side note...Cary Grant stated to me he thought President Ford's daughter (Susan) was the nicest woman he ever met. Quite a compliment from him!!

I forgot to mention Mel Torme, the singer.


He was a Colt collector, and was in a gun shop where I was. Very friendly and unaffected. Knew his Colts, especially the SAA.


T-Star

Dick Rutan - My wife and I were seated at the same dining table for a 2 week cruise of the Baltic. His girlfriend was hot.

Bernard Kalb - Borrowd 20 Kroner from me in Sweden on the same cruise. He said he had to use a pay phone to call his friend at the embassy. Never paid me back.

Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito and Derik Sanderson when I was kid in Boston.

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Pax Per Potens

I shook hands with Jerry Lee Lewis one night after a concert. He had a better buzz going than I did. It was in a club, and the country singer Johnny Paycheck was standing next to me much of the night. He was a nice guy, was about five feet tall, looked like he hadn't washed his hair in three days, and had quite possibly the most attractive woman I have even seen in person with him.

My favorite celebrity story was when an uncle of mine was in a bar just off Route 66 in Western Oklahoma in the late 1940's. A guy in a "stupid looking white suit" was drinking beer next to him, then finally turned and shook hands with him saying, "Hi, I'm Hank Williams". My uncle, who didn't like country music, thought Tommy Dorsey and the big bands ruled, said, "Pleased to meet you, I'm (his name)", and went back to his beer. The next day, when he told my dad about it, my dad nearly crapped his pants-Hank Williams was probably his all time musical hero.
roosterk

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Joe Foss. Top Marine fighter ace in WWII. Appeared on the cover of Life Magazine as a Marine Captain. South Dakota's youngest governor (two terms). First Commissioner of the American Football League. Host of the old American Sportsman TV show. He was also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and became president of the NRA. A true hero, and a finer man never lived. There are more famous people that I've met, but I'm proudest to have met and talked extensively with Joe. An exceedingly humble, personable and likable guy, he was one of a kind.

Just as an aside, he once was boarding a commercial aircraft while in possession of his MOH, which he wore on formal occasions. The idiot security people told him he couldn't board with the Medal, as it was sharp enough to be used as a weapon. That's when the merde hit the ventilateur!

I'll let you guess whether or not Joe got to board the plane, complete with his Medal of Honor...

One my most treasured possessions is an autographed copy of his book, A Proud American: the Autobiography of Joe Foss. Here's the inscription:

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Sterling Moss, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jackie Stewart, Denny Hulme, Carrol Shelby, Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, Froilan Gonzalez, and more racing drivers. Phil Hill and I talked about my Jaguar XK120 that was originally owned by Charles Hornburg, and Phil remembered Hornburg driving it.

The entire cast of CSI. Jorja Fox and Marg Helgenberger are very nice, very sweet, very beautiful ladies. William Petersen is the exact opposite of "Grissom". He is a very funny, very jovial guy. George Eads is just the way he is on TV. He is a friendly ordinary guy with no big star ego, and he likes to shoot. George spent a lot of time talking to my girlfriend once. I think he liked her. Gary Dourdan was very quiet and thoughtful when I met him. Very much the professional and very intelligent. Before anyone has anything to say about Gary, remember what Vince Lombardi once said, "There is no shame in falling down. There is only shame in not getting up." Gary fell down, and now he is getting back up.

I occassionally hung out with Barry McGuire (Eve of Destruction), I met various members of rock bands in the 60s, and I want to make this absolutely clear; that was not me dancing naked in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 1967 at a free concert.

One more thing; I have met some politicians over the years. I ain't proud of that. I would rather be dancing naked in Golden Gate Park.

Hard to say who was the most famous... but the person I was most thrilled to meet was Col. Hank Potter, Jimmy Doolittle's navigator. He lived two doors down from me in Austin ,TX.

Potter

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Richard Petty - February 1999ish Daytona Beach Florida.

Also met Kyle Petty and John Andretti that same weekend.

President Gerald Ford
Burl Ives
Greer Garson
Mayor Carl Stokes (1st African American mayor of Cleveland)
Tim Conway
Fred Williamson
Skeeter Skelton
Donald Hamilton (author of Matt Helm series)
Howard Pardue (for you vintage aircraft fans, or air racing fans)
Richard Boone

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My father-in-law....Bob Bolin, pitcher for the SF Giants from 1962-1972.
Phil Neikro
Gaylord Perry
Those guys still get together quite a bit.
Toy and Tommy Caldwell
Paul Newman
David Ball

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Charlie Crist, current Governor of Florida, shared an office with me for a short time when I was a young Prosecutor in St. Petersburg. Talked to him at one of the local ranges when he was running for Governor a couple of years ago.

Jeb Bush, Ehhhh.

Candy Loving, January, 1979 25th Anniversary Playboy Playmate-she was dating a guy I knew. Beauty truly is only skin deep, but the skin was nice.

Ann Margaret, in VietNam. Very nice lady.

Janet Reno when she was the State Attorney down in Miami. Offered me a job, but I did not accept. (Smarter than I look).

Bob

Mary Travers (Peter, Paul and Mary), flew from London to NY on a 747 with her when I was returning from Turkey. Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson and Harry Connick - they were all playing and staying at Humphries in San Diego where we kept our boat. Congressman Brian Bilbray is a boat buddy as well.

I met John Force at a race, but only briefly. People SWARMED him when he exited his trailer. I also met Don Garlits at Memphis dragstrip once. Super nice guy, his wife also a nice person. Talked to them for the longest about their two little Yorkie dogs that were with them. He also had a 1940 black Ford coupe with a Chrysler Hemi in it, I believe. Met Sterling Marlin, the NASCAR driver once at a Chrysler dealership in Florence, another really nice man. Got autographs from all these guys; great people all. I was just in awe of Garlits. Anybody who knows drag racing history, and Top Fuel in particular, also knows what this man has accomplished in the sport, and what an innovator he was as well.

Look who's on top.





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Mother Teresa -- in 1984, when she came to Norristown, PA to open a mission and convent. There was a lot of local opposition at the time to opening the mission, but it all melted away when she came. I was a reporter for the local paper at the time and not only got a one-on-one interview with her, but when she found out I was Catholic she invited me to kneel and pray with her.

I've searched my boring past and found no one that I can recall that I can truthfully say I've met and had a conversation or got to shake their hand, etc that I could say is famous. What a brown paper bag life I have lived!

I've seen a few up close,,been snubbed by a few in an attempt to meet & converse, but never more than that.

I've done work for, or done work on, guns that were owned by some famous folks. Some of the guns were being done up to be given as gifts to some of them. Never got to meet any of them as the work was all done third party and the front company gets the credit in that situation unless they choose to get you involved,,and they didn't.
If that counts,,I'll toss in John Milius, Prince Andrew (and he was in town too to watch the Ryder Cup at the time but didn't stop by), Leonid Brezhnev, Hank Williams Jr, Jimmy Carter (hey,,he's a quail hunter & it was almost 20yrs ago!), Tom Selleck,,. Wish I could remember more to make this sound better!

I see a lot of guys mentioning Playmates. Well I can't say her name, but I use to babysit a Bunnies children when I was 14 or 15. The dates arrived in a Porsche or Stingray, off they go to have fun. Well most of the fun was when they came home. I could gauge my paycheck by how long they were upstairs making noise. And I got a ride home later in a nice car.

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