[EagleUSA]

I remember listening to him on television when I was about 10 years old -- many decades ago.

[Fiji Hill]

I first became acquainted with George Putnam when he was a television newscaster during the late 1960's. He was an outspoken conservative and anti-Communist, and he always concluded his newscasts with a shot of the American flag, which he announced was "flying proudly' over Whittier, Santa Monica, Watts, Pasadena, or some other Southland community.

I was also a regular listener to his daily radio program on KIEV, now KRLA, at 870 kilocycles on the AM band, which he began in 1976. Putnam regularly featured Howard Jarvis as a guest, and his show was a major factor, in my opinion, in the success of Proposition 13 in 1978.