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Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Mead
(Met them at lectures at Peabody College in Nashville with my mother when I was 10-11)

Werner Von Braun
(Met with my father when he worked at Boeing in Huntsville during the late 60’s on the Apollo project.)

'Bull' Connor
(Was Birmingham Police Commissioner while my father was a Police Detective)

Deke Slayton
(Was my late best friend’s brother-in-law)

Deng Chao Peng (Chinese Chairman)
Barbie Benton
Richard Feynman
Jim Oberg
(Met while they were visiting NASA-JSC when I worked there from 1978-1988.)

John Glenn
John Young
Bob Crippen
Walt Cunningham
Neil Armstrong
Ed Aldrin
Scott Carpenter
Gordo Cooper
Sally Ride
Anna Fisher
Bill Fisher
Story Musgrave
(Met at NASA-JSC when I worked there from 1978-1987.)

*** Challenger 7 Crew ***
Dick Scobee
Mike Smith
Judy Resnik
Ellison Onizuka
Ron McNair
Greg Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe
(Met at NASA-JSC when I worked there from 1978-1987.)

Col. Sanders
(Met while working at a new KFC while in college in 1967. This was when he still visited every new store.)

Willie Mays
Jesse Owens
(Met while working as a Broadcast Engineer at a black radio station in Birmingham. And I'm white)

Fanny Flagg
(She was my babysitter when I was a kid. Her real name is Patricia Neal. Her family and mine were close friends.)

Sean Connery
Katherine Ross
John Saxon
Leslie Nielson
Robert Conrad
(Met them while I was at White Sands for the STS-3 Shuttle landing. We were all staying at the same hotel in Alamogordo while they were filming “Wrong is Right”.)

The Mamas and Papas
Gene Watson
Chet Atkins
Floyd Cramer
Boots Randolph
Al Hirt
(Met while playing in bands in Nashville in the mid 60’s)

Kenny ‘Snake’ Stabler – Super Bowl-Winning Quarterback
(Played High School football with him at Foley High School, Foley, AL, and my mother was his tutor in some subjects after school.)

Bear Bryant
(My uncle played pro ball for the Pittsburgh Steelers and coached High School Football in Alabama, and introduced me to him.)

Jimmy Buffet
Almost certainly met him as a kid when he used to surf at Gulf Shores, AL while I grew up there. In his books he talks about surfing at Alabama Point. My friends and I surfed there too, and talked to the kids from Mobile. He’s about two years older than me.

Two Degrees of Separation:
When living in Colombia, South America in the early 60's met a young British girl about my age (14) and we hung out together.
Found out a couple of months later when I met her mother that Sam was actually Lady Samantha, and her mother was a Duchess.
AND that they were actually Royalty. Her mother was Queen Elizabeth's 2nd cousin, and Sam had been at the Coronation when she was 6 or so.