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Roger McGrath

TV personality

Jul 14, 2026

13:38
Let's return to Roger McGrath.
13:41
[Instrumental music] Tunstall makes ones for himself, and he has the money to do it.
13:46
He writes to his father it is his goal to get the half of every dollar that is made in the county by anyone.
13:57
To put this into effect, Tunstall first needs a cattle ranch.
14:01
McSween gets him a 4,000 acre spread some 30 miles south of Lincoln.
14:07
Tunstall now thinks he'll open a store in Lincoln to compete with The House, but he needs a hook to lure farmers away from Murphy's business.
14:17
Tunstall decides he'll issue what he calls green notes to customers against the future harvest of crops.

12 MINS LATER

26:16
Let's return to Roger McGrath and the story of Billy the Kid.
Dale RobertsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
4:18
They wouldn't let me ad-lib, you know.
4:20
Dale Robertson is born in 1923 in Harrah, Oklahoma, to a mother of Irish descent and a father with mostly Scottish ancestors.
4:31
Dale was a natural athlete and excelled in sports, but spent much of his time riding and training horses, especially for polo.
4:41
There's a story that while attending class in high school in Oklahoma City, Robertson boxes professionally for a time to earn extra money.
4:51
Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, happens to see him fight in Wichita, Kansas, and asks the handsome youth to come to Hollywood to audition for the lead in a movie about a young boxer.
5:06
Robertson's only 16 and says he's too young to leave home and has polo ponies to train.
5:14
Robertson graduates from class and high and enrolls at Oklahoma Military Academy in Claymore for college.
Dale RobertsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:10
And then I started getting letters when I was overseas from people in Hollywood wanting me to come out there to... make a screen test, which I was all for it, but Uncle Sam wasn't too interested in my career.

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