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Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 128

It was called Jim Fowler’s Lightning in the Wild. And I have that. One of my only brochures left with me. And I had on a bush hat and I had to holding a big eagle. And so I got into some very, very interesting travels by traveling around to… Read More

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Now, you were involved at a low budget film?… Read More

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In Africa. Read More

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I did The Today Show, and I think I’ve mentioned that. And even then I had a big eagle called the Cape sea eagle. It was actually the African equivalent of our bald eagle. And it’s called the African fishing eagle. And I had one of those on The Today… Read More

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Well, that was my signal to bring the eagle to my fist. And the eagle was very frustrated ’cause it thought all these people through the plate glass window are calling for it. And it almost flew off of me, my fist out to some of them would have crashed… Read More

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And that’s why I brought some of these. But also I’d been lecturing now. Let me just add this, when I was in New York with all the animals, (clears throat) I went to an agent in New York that somebody who knew me had recommended it was the Colston… Read More

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Good. Where was the…… Read More

Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 123

Was there any memorable experiences about acquiring these animals?… Read More

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Well, when I came back from Africa, I was there. I was not there to… I didn’t plan to go to Africa to catch animals and bring them back to the United States. As I said, I didn’t necessarily plan in the future too much, but I had been working… Read More

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I think January, 63. Let me back up a minute, because you said that you were in Africa, you brought animals back on a boat. Read More

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And my question is, why were you collecting animals in Africa to bring them back?… Read More

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Where were they going?… Read More

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What are you doing?… Read More

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You don’t have a joB, do you?… Read More

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Or do you?… Read More

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Well, I had a friend who was… Goes back he had been my major professor in college in Indiana, and he had a farm. So I would go until something happened. I was staying on his farm with all my animals doing a little bit of lecturing and that sort… Read More

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And then Marlin went out. They had had in Zoo Parade, Mutual of Omaha had done a couple of commercials on Zoo Parade. So Marlin had Don Meier went out to talk with the chairman of the board of Mutual, whose name was VJ Scott. And he had the astuteness… Read More

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You’re in Chicago?… Read More

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Yeah. Read More

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Can you see that headlines on the Chicago paper?… Read More

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