Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 209
No Difficult. That’s the hardest thing in my life. Even today at the Columbus Zoo. Read More
No Difficult. That’s the hardest thing in my life. Even today at the Columbus Zoo. Read More
“It grows big, don’t you understand? Don’t you get it, Jack?… Read More
“What you gonna do with the elephant?” “I know Knoxville zoo me.” “The Knoxville Zoo, “they can’t even take care of old diamond. “I know the guy who’s on the board of this thing. “Are you crazy? It’s not coming here.” And when my dad tells me those things, I… Read More
“You know what, Jack?… Read More
I go, God help me, did to myself and my brother just took off, he just walked away. Read More
“Where’s your brother go?” “I don’t know.” “What is that? My God, what is that thing?… Read More
“You got some 5,000 pound bull coming in here?” Quote, I said, “No, dad, you won’t believe this. “You’re not gonna believe it. “I got a baby elephant coming in two weeks. “I’ve already paid for it.” My dad looked at me and I never, he never, it’s the first… Read More
Got big old, big old beams, put this thing in there. I had my dad came back two days early. And this is the truth, My dad was 6’6″, played football at Vanderbilt. He said, “How’s everything’s going, you boys are good?” He’d always walk around the farm. He goes… Read More
They may not admit it, but I’ll admit it. Yes, I had some pets. I had a pet lion, I told you. The chimpanzee, I had all kinds of things. I mean, look at my book. You’ll see what it listed for. Read More
What was a lion? $300, $400?… Read More
I don’t know. Elephants were $4,000. I did get an elephant. You know that, I ordered it from Bill Chase, by the way. I used it in my book, I ordered the elephant. My dad went out of town. We had a barn there for our cows and cattle. He… Read More
Then you only had two treatments. So we were lucky we drew a five, but we paid the price later, but we have our daughter see. That was back then. Back then they did have spinal taps that, they were held them down. They did a lot of things back… Read More
You see where I’m coming from?… Read More
A lot of things were done back then with animals brought in by people. I think it did do some harming, no doubt about it. But it also did some helping. It helped some zoos like Central Florida Zoo where you could get animals. There wasn’t, I didn’t know if… Read More
But because of these kind of folks, yes, it led to pet shops, yes it led to some of these animals, biting people and causing problems. No doubt about that, you know, I had my issues, obviously you heard about my, the terrible thing happen to me. But then again,… Read More
The animals he had. Bill was the guy who loved animals. Yes, he imported animals, no doubt about that. We both know that, you know, and I go back to this, but I hope you understand. Back then, that is what happened. When my daughter was at St. Jude, she… Read More
That means she had five different types of chemotherapy, as well as radiation to the brain. At St. Jude, you did that back then. Read More
If you drew a card in a two, ’cause it’s research, right?… Read More
And what was it like to work with him?… Read More
And how did he either help or?… Read More