Cradle of Aviation Museum

Thank you.

And it was great to meet you at the Cradle of Aviation event.

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and in the suite at the 40th.

He didn't know if he was going to be able to come out of jail in time to see his brother.

So there's a lot of things that were lost along the way and big price that he paid for doing it.

He was a working actor at the time and you know, it's not like today with social media and people doing stuff like this, not that anyone's done anything like this, but he had a huge price that he paid also with his acting career that nobody really wanted to, you know, and I think that that's the thing is that nobody really realizes that that thing was an act of love as he talked about at the Cradle of Event, Cradle of Aviation event, it was an act of love.

And the love he's received back has made everything worth it, including the prison sentence that he received and the fight he had to fight to get out of federal prison, which was a huge ordeal.

You can't beat the experience.

Welcome aboard the Pan Am Podcast, brought to you by the Pan Am Museum Foundation at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, Long Island, with the generous financial support from Mr. Adam Aaron, Chairman and CEO of AMC Theaters and President of our sister organization, the Pan Am Historical Foundation.

I'm your host, Ken Andersen, and with today's episode, we're kicking off the centennial celebration of Pan Am's founding.

In this episode, we are going all the way back to day one.

I'm Ken Andersen, and you have been listening to the Pan Am Podcast, Episode 69, 90 Miles and Minutes to Spare.

the founding of Pan American Airways and the first flight of FAM-4.

Our first in a series of centennial celebration episodes brought to you by the Pan Am Museum Foundation at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, Long Island, with generous financial support from Mr. Adam Aaron, Chairman and CEO of AMC Theaters and President of our sister organization, the Pan Am Historical Foundation.

We would also like to thank Captain Bob Gandt for his insight into this story.

I'm glad that I played on some wonderful teams in New York where it was always about the team and it was no I, you know, when you put an I, it's no I in team, but when you put an I in yourself, you clearly gonna miss out on what's truly important.

Darrell, I had something for you, and I had the privilege of attending several of those events at the 86th reunion, and one of those was the banquet at the Cradle of Aviation Museum out on Long Island.

I mean, you were so inspirational that night.

It was kind of like you were preaching to not only the assembly of 86 Mets that were there, but all the fans that were there.

But when you put an I in yourself, you're clearly going to miss out on what's truly important.

Darrell, I had something for you, and I had the privilege of attending several events at the 86th reunion, and one of those was the banquet at the Cradle of Aviation Museum out on Long Island.

I mean, you were so inspirational that night.

It was kind of like you were preaching to not only the assembly of 86 Mets that were there, but all the fans that were there.