"gaffo" wrote in message
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Rich Wood wrote:

I smell a big fine in the works. Unauthorized access to a miltary base
when the President is there. I wonder how nature can possibly make
someone that stupid.

Rich



anything for ratings and a buck.

you seem surprised.


Those of you in the radio game ought to have an award and give it out at the
NAB party in Nevada -- call it the Aimee Semple McPherson award. Make it a
nice glass or crystal trophy.

Perhaps, the head of a clown with one of those "crazee arrows" thorugh it.

Aimee Semple McPherson was probably the first radio stuntress in history.
Ms. McPherson was also one of the first radio preacher/hucksters. She
founded the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles and ran it with her mother (or
former mother-in-law?) -- a woman named Kennedy. She also had a radio
station - KFSG.

In 1926, Aimee disappeared, and was supposedly swept under the waves while
swimming at the beach. Rescue workers could find nothing. Unfortunately,
a man died during the search and rescue. Several days later, after an
intense radio campaign over KFSG praying for Aimee's return, she turned
up - staggered out of the desert -- and claimed she had been beaten,
drugged, and raped, and had walked six hours through the desert sun to be
rescued. This incident of weirdness was topped by the fact that her
clothing and condition did not reflect six hours of walking through the
desert.

There were also indications that she had been seen in the company of one of
the station's engineers in a trip up the California coast while she was
"kidnapped". However, both he and McPherson denied it, and she was
acquitted of perjury.

She returned to the Angelus Temple, but did not enjoy her pre-stunt
publicity.

McPherson died of an overdose of barbituates in 1944.