The Most Famous Person You've Met

Lee Jarrett

Roy Jinks

Gerald and Betty Ford

Jack Nicholas


I used to work concert security and have met more rock and country stars than I can name.
 
I was part of a security detail guarding Gerald Ford once. I met most of the big name wrestlers when I would stop them on I40 for speeding in the 70's.
My absolute favorite was stopping Dolly Parton on I40. She was just as nice as can be. I probably wouldn't have written her anyway, (After all, she IS the Queen of Tennessee) but I found out she outranked me. She was a THP Captain. Her DL was in a Badge & ID Case. I was a just lowly Trooper, so what can ya do?.
Cherokee Slim
 
I met JFK in 1957 when I was a kiod. The Senate was conducting hearings into the Labor Unions and my Dad took me to the hearings. We had eaten lunch that day in the Senate dining room and I had the menu with me. During a break, I saw JFK in the lobby and I shook his hand and he signed the menu for me. I still have it.
 
I met George Foreman, the heavyweight champion, in 1995 in Las Vegas. He is a very gracious and kind person, outside the ring! Also met General Curtis LeMay when I was in college in the 60's. He was pleasant but all business as I imagine most generals are away from family.
 
Used to spend too much time in airports and airline lounges. A few "characters" I met, in the sense that we did have a good conversation, were: Al McGuire (ex head coach of the Marquette basketball team), Richard Kiel (Jaws in a couple of Bond movies - nice guy and really enjoyed the conversation. A personality completely at odds with his imposing appearance), Ed McMahon (nervously waited for his new bride whose flight was delayed - he was old and she was quite young). I met others too, but not to the point of having a conversation with them.
Some of my older co-workers and relatives should have been famous based on the "work" they did in
WW2.
 
One of the prime players who invented the 210mm silver bullet.

Nancy Wilson of Heart. Her dog escaped from the dressing room and was wandering the hallways of a concert I was doing security at back in the late 70's and I returned him. Very nice lady.

Misc. Senators and Congressmen. Seemed like anytime they came to the FRG they wanted to see a CAS site.
 
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George Mitchell, he was the US Attorney for Maine when I was on the job there. He later becam a US District Court Judge, and a Senator from Maine. My other famous person is the commedienne, Ruth Buzzi, she was a year ahead of me at Stonington High School, Stonington, CT. Other than those two just knew regular folks.:D Fedret
 
That I can talk about, Mickey Rooney at Disney Studios, he was just hanging out waiting for someone to put him to work and he was very courteous, smiling and pleasant.
 
Now I know why he liked to work! He used to be a regular at the off track betting!
 
Had breakfast once with A.J.Foyt and Mario Andretti. Well, we were in the same restaurant anways. They were running in the Hoosier Hundred and I was attending an old Porsche 356 rally. I asked them if they wanted to take a ride; Foyt said those things were way too dangerous. -S2
 
Johnny Cash in 1986 in the lobby of a Holiday Inn at Paducah Kentucky. I was fourteen at the time and had my four year old cousin in tow and walked up to him and stuttered "You're Johnny Cash". I knew him from listening to my parents LP of Live at San Quentin probably a hundred times. He took the time to chat with a gangly teenager and a four year old. The main thing I remember was how big his hands were and that he had a chest like barrel.
 
Maybe not a celebrity, but still famous in my eyes.
Chuck Leighton, flight navigator on the Memphis Belle.
He was close with a high school buddy's grandfather.
 
Well let's see..............hmmmm

Flip wilson at Neptunes Net Malibu
Bergis Merideth....aka Penguin Subway sandwich shop Malibu
Frank Gorshin aka the ridler at a swap meet
Steve Mcqueen Ventura drive in swapmeet He bought my antique Mousetrap. The circular kind with lots of holes.
George Kennedy Mr. Breath asure. Lived at Oxnard shores. Delivered culligan to his house.
Mickey Rooney in Westlake California delivering Culligan to his house.
Charles Bronson. Guidos restaurant in Malibu. Loved Unsweetened Ice tea I was delivering working for Pepsi.
Johnathon Winters Neptunes Net Malibu. Loves clams and drove a amc pacer...lol
Martin Sheen. Total Jerk was blocking alley at Ralphs Shopping center in Malibu while talking to a homless man. I honked my horn for him to move and he yelled at me. I yelled back "Some people have to work for a living"
Nick Nolte Buys Icream in Zuma Beach Met while delivering Pepsi. Has Really Really big feet. and wears pj's and a trench coat.
The guy that played Huggy bear from Berreta at Fallbrook mall JC penny outlet. Sorry dont know his name.
 
One last one I almost forgot

Lee Van Cleef at the Esplanade Mall in Oxnard California. He was smoking a pipe inside when you could smoke inside back then and I Asked him are you the guy from the western movies Angle eyes?..I was kinda embarrased..I didnt know his name till he told me. He was very nice.
 
Charlie Sherril, Leland Ray, Dick Burg, Lee Jarrett, David Carroll. And I know Burt (Tennexplorer) personally!

I'd love to meet Roy Jinks and chat about...well, anything.
(I know I know...go to the SWCA meetings).

Roger
 
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