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OBITUARIES: GEORGE WALSH, 88, VOICE OF 'GUNSMOKE,' VETERAN KNX-AM
NEWSMAN IN L.A. AND THE REPORTER WHO ORIGINALLY REPORTED AND BROKE THE
FAMOUS ROSWELL CRASH LANDING OF ONE (1) EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT ON JUNE
17, 1947, HAS PASSED AWAY....   By Valerie J. Nelson, L. A. Times Staff
Writer, Friday, January 13, 2006


George Walsh, who became known as the voice of "Gunsmoke" after he
introduced the western series on CBS radio for nearly a decade then
followed the show to television as its announcer, has died. He was 88.

Walsh, an announcer and a newscaster at KNX-AM (1070) from 1952 to 1986,
died of congestive heart failure Dec. 5 at Garfield Medical Center in
Monterey Park, said his daughter, Fran.

Beginning in 1952, Walsh opened the weekly series that was broadcast
live on radio with these words: "Around Dodge City and in the territory
out West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with a U.S. marshal and the smell of 'Gunsmoke.' "

The radio version of "Gunsmoke," which starred William Conrad as Marshal
Matt Dillon, aired until 1961. When it moved to television in 1955,
James Arness took over the starring role but Walsh remained as the
show's announcer. Walsh, who once said the "Gunsmoke" cast thought the
radio show would last forever, had only to look at the streets of Los
Angeles in the 1950s to see the future of episodic drama.

"It was unbelievable. People were standing in the rain outside
department stores watching television when it was new," Walsh told The
Times in 2000. For 34 years, Walsh worked at KNX as an interviewer,
sports reporter, newscaster and announcer for a number of shows,
including a fashion show hosted by film costume designer Edith Head.

One show, "Music 'Til Dawn," featured mainly classical music and aired
overnight from 1952 until about 1970. The show won a Peabody Award in
1966. Another, "This Is Los Angeles," aired nightly at 8:15 and earned
him a Golden Mike Award in 1961 from the Radio and Television News Assn.
of Southern California.

During one radio show, while Walsh waited to do a commercial, Danny Kaye
pulled a prank with an egg sandwich. "He suddenly walked up and shoved
it into my mouth," Walsh told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in 1998. "I
don't know how, but I kept talking."

Walsh's voice also reached a broader audience when he recorded "Only you
can prevent forest fires," the signature line of Smokey Bear. His voice
was used in the West Coast ad campaign, his daughter said.

George Russell Walsh was born in Cleveland on Nov. 29, 1917. Days after
the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Walsh joined the Army Air
Forces, serving overseas with Armed Forces Radio and emceeing USO shows.

Upon returning to the United States, Walsh became the program director
at an ABC-affiliated radio station in Roswell, N.M., WHERE HE BROKE A
STORY, which he was proud of decades later, ABOUT A UFO "LANDING" ON
June 17, 1947.

When an Air Force PRESS OFFICER CLAIMED THAT A "FLYING SAUCER" HAD BEEN
CAPTURED NEAR ROSWELL and sent to Washington, D.C., for analysis, Walsh
went with the story, which was reported around the world before the
military realized that the so-called UFO was actually a radar target.

Walsh came to Los Angeles to attend broadcasting school and was soon
hired at KNX as a vacation relief announcer.
After he retired from broadcasting, Walsh worked in the shops on Main
Street in Disneyland, a place his daughter said he "just loved."

A careful listener might have been able to connect the Candy Palace
clerk with another part of the park — Walsh's voice was featured on
the rides Flight to the Moon and Mission to Mars, which have since
closed.

His daughter recalled Walsh, a longtime resident of Monterey Park, as a
"kind and gentle man" who insisted on leaving a weekly thank you atop
his garbage can on trash day: a chilled bottle of Starbucks Mocha
Frappuccino.

In addition to his daughter, who lives in Riverside, Walsh is survived
by his wife of 49 years, Charlotte; two other daughters, Janice of
Fontana and Carolyn of Monterey Park; two brothers; two sisters; five
grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CARTER: "Or extraterrestrial people coming to earth, I don’t think that’s ever happened."

EXCERPT:

HYLTON: One of the promises you made in 1976 was that if you were elected, you would look into the reports from Roswell and see if there had been any cover-ups. Did you look into that?

CARTER: Well, in a way. I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I’ll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic—a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn’t find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn’t find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.

HYLTON: That must have been surreal for you. You’re the president of the United States, and you’re getting intelligence information from a woman in a trance in California.

CARTER: That’s exactly right.

HYLTON: How did your scientific mind process that?

CARTER: With skepticism. Whether it was just a gross coincidence or…I don’t know. But that’s one thing that I couldn’t explain. As far as covering up possible flights from distant satellites or distant heavenly bodies, I don’t believe in that, and there’s no evidence that it was ever covered up. Or extraterrestrial people coming to earth, I don’t think that’s ever happened.

HYLTON: In a way, just the fact that you promised the American people you would look into it is reflective of how much of an outsider you were to Washington.

CARTER: That’s true.

INTERVIEW SOURCE:

The Gospel According to Jimmy
Twenty-five years after leaving the White House, Jimmy Carter breaks it down on faith, UFOs, greedy Republicans, and that pain in the ass known as Ted Kennedy Interview by Wil S. Hylton; photograph by Richard Burbridge.

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