Nope, Don Knotts is still alive and carrying around his lucky bullet.
Well I'll be...Don Knotts is still kickin'! I must have gotten him confused with someone else..Gilligan perhaps.
Anyway, Don is 81 years old so perhaps it is time for some young blood in the WV senator's office. Heck, Sheets welcomed me and my 8th grade class to the Capitol back in 1974.