Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 137

Did the neighbor lady make the connection with your father to say, “Your son’s growing up”?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 138

Yeah, she set up the meeting, and I had a bedroom and her home. So she got ya the job at the zoo. Well, she got me the future in the zoo. I didn’t work in the zoo then, but I was with my father, at least, I spent time… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 139

And did you know other famous zoo people, like Lee Crandall?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 135

What happened that you all of sudden got reconnected?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 134

How did you get reconnected with your dad?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 131

Yeah. Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 132

You were hired as what? Curator?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 133

Yeah, I guess, more, almost, assistant director. I don’t think I had term general curator. (dog howls) Somebody… (Janet laughs) I’m sorry, I- Bored to tears. (Mark laughs) I’m (indistinct). Question, I was just thinking about it. Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 130

He’s with Lincoln Park, too, I think, wasn’t he?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 128

Bob Truett. Did you know Bob before that?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 129

No, no. Okay. He was a good Texas boy, though. Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 125

Jimmy Morgan of Birmingham Zoo. Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 126

And the director was Bob?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 127

Bob Truett. Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 122

And how did you come to get to the Jimmy Morgan Zoo?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 124

And you were hired by?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 123

They were advertising, and I applied for it. Also, I had a in there because of knowing my father. Jimmy Morgan and my grandfather, I guess, had been buddies. Jimmy Morgan was the mayor of Birmingham. So I remember, when I applied for the job, he wanna make sure he… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 119

Well now, from Brookfield Zoo, you go off on your own into the zoo field. Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 120

And then, you got a job at the Birmingham, Alabama, zoo, Jimmy Morgan Zoo?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 121

Jimmy Morgan. Read More