My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.