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Speaker 1: beginning of Al's life is similar to Helen's in many ways.
Speaker 1: Like her, he grew up in New York, joined the
Speaker 1: Young Communist League in college. After he and Helen got married,
Speaker 1: they drove across the country to start a new life
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. All dreamed of becoming a screenwriter, but his
Speaker 1: timing was bad.
Speaker 2: You're on the verge of being hired as a screenwriter
Speaker 2: and you get drafted, right, what happens?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 2: So was the only one in Los Angeles that sent
Speaker 2: people out of Los Angeles for the physical, that put
Speaker 2: me in a bus, sent me to Fresno with a
Speaker 2: group of others from that draft board for my physical
Speaker 2: and then back. I mean it was really insane. And
Speaker 2: then when I went into the Army, I was stationed
Speaker 2: at Culver City at what was familiarly known as Fort
Speaker 2: Roach for year and a half. You know about Fort Roach,
Speaker 2: I assume Herod Studios. It was the Howard Studios that
Speaker 2: were taken over by the government for the First Motion
Speaker 2: Picture Unit.
Speaker 1: The First Motion Picture Unit was part of the Army
Speaker 1: Air Forces during the Second World War. They made training
Speaker 1: films and newsreels.
Speaker 3: She was a B twenty nine the Superport, with twenty
Speaker 3: two hundred horsepower in each of four engines, with a
Speaker 3: fuel capacity equal to that of a railroad tank car,
Speaker 3: a tail that climbed two stories into the air, a
Speaker 3: body longer than a Corvette.
Speaker 1: Avid listeners of revisionist history may not just recognize that voice,
Speaker 1: but the very clip run of Reagan narrated many of
Speaker 1: these films. Red loving al Levitt and Red Baiting run
Speaker 1: of Reagan were actually co workers.
Speaker 2: Every day for a year and a half, I would
Speaker 2: see Nan, then called Reagan who arrived at the post.
Speaker 2: He arrived there before I did, but he arrived from
Speaker 2: a cavalry outfit wearing jod present a campaign hat, and
Speaker 2: nobody could take him seriously. From then on he was laughingstock.
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