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Born in 1930 in "Diddlin' Dora's" establishment on the banks of Rapid Creek and carried by the Madam herself to a social worker at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, Ron Hull was destined from the outset to live an interesting life. And interesting it has indeed been, at the very least. A well-known and much-loved figure after six decades in television, Hull sets out in Backstage to tell his story—from playing a bellhop in a junior class play in South Dakota (and meeting his "real" mother backstage) to initiating the American Experience series for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Before he even owned a television set, Hull produced a military TV show at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But it wasn't until he got a job in public broadcasting in Lincoln, Nebraska, that he truly found his medium. Hull has a lifetime of fascinating anecdotes to tell: working as a producer and director, encountering celebrities like John Wayne and William Shatner, befriending famous Nebraskans like writers Mari Sandoz and John Neihardt and actress Sandy Dennis, moving to Saigon in 1966 to bring television to embattled Vietnam, and working in Washington as director of the program fund for the CPB. Through it all, though, Hull's story is a tribute to his adopted Nebraska, a celebration of the people—stars and unsung heroes—he's known, and a moving memoir of the dramas of life, large and small.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Where the West Begins in the Middle of . . .
2. The Mystery in Grandmother's Trunk
3. The Stranger in the Night
4. The Hulls and the Kayes
5. On Becoming a Storyteller
6. Front and Center
7. With Thanks to the gi Bill
8. Our Town
9. We Had a Dream
10. Shapers of the Dream
11. My Two Friends John Neihardt and Mari Sandoz
12. Bringing Television to Vietnam
13. Actors, Politicians, and Airplanes
14. Like Dragons Take to Maidens
15. Brief and Memorable Far East Encounters
16. Programming the Vietnamese Way
17. Goodbye, Saigon
18. The House that Jack Built
19. Back to Vietnam
20. David and Goliath
21. The Big Time
22. Sandy, Jean, and Phil
23. The Gang of Seven
24. The Missed Opportunity
25. Exciting Times, Stimulating People
26. Feeling the "Old Washington Squeeze"
27. The Peace Tree
