Jean Shepherd was an American raconteur, author, radio show host perhaps best known for the movie "A Christmas Story" which originally appeared in his books "In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash" and "Wands Hickey's Night of Golden Memories". I saw this picture on Facebook and had to cross-post here. The artist did a fantastic job and you can see the similarities in the facial features in the picture above and the photo below.
I had the pleasure of listening to K2ORS when he used to have a nightly radio show on WOR - 710 on your AM Radio dial in NYC, and I also had the pleasure of seeing him live at Princeton University when he gave a show at one of their College Alumni weekends back in the 1980s. Jean was also an Amateur Radio Op, a Ham - call sign K2ORS, and some of his best shows were the ones about Amateur Radio.
There are a few others that you can find on YouTube, but these are my favorites.
I wish we had someone like this as an ambassador for Amateur Radio today.
Oh ..... and by the way, Happy Hallowe'en!
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
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