[Menehune56]

According to IMDB, Jack Lord was "a dedicated liberal activist [and] vocal advocate of gun control in the United States." Which I admit takes away a little from my enjoyment of the original Hawaii Five-O series.

[KeyLargo]

I heard that Jack Lord was Gay.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not to mention Season 9 really SUCKED! All of the original cast except Lord had moved on.

[jiggyboy]

Nah, just think of all those episodes where he walked into a shabby rental full of dope-smoking hippies — he’d start questioning one of them who just rambled on about expanding his mind and that crap, so eventually McGarrett would just grab him by the shoulders and shake him like a rag doll while yelling at him, “What’s the matter with you! You gonna be HOPPED UP ON SMACK YOUR WHOLE LIFE!?” Now that’s entertainment.

[Steve_Seattle]

"According to IMDB, Jack Lord was "a dedicated liberal activist [and] vocal advocate of gun control in the United States." Which I admit takes away a little from my enjoyment of the original Hawaii Five-O series."

I read in several places that Jack Webb was a conservative who died embittered over the social unrest and leftist politics of the late sixties and early seventies. I remember when Dragnet was revived for its second run, in one episode Webb/Friday delivered a passionate defense of the police and a passionate critique of left-wing anti-police gripes.

[skeeter]

I don't know how informed a liberal Lord was. From his interviews it seems everything he said & opinions he offered were singularly intended to promote his show.

Elvis gave him a gold plated handgun that was still part of his estate when he died thirty years later. So he couldn't have been that anti-gun.