Interviews

Dave Garroway

Recorded May 22nd, 1976 - 45 min

The star of radio and television talks about his early years in Chicago at WMAQ where he had popular recorded music shows such as the 11:60 Club and developed Garroway-at-Large, the innovative “Chicago School of TV” series for early NBC-TV. He was born July 13, 1913 and was 62 when we spoke with him at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago. He told how he was recruited to develop and host the Today Show on TV and, later, Wide, Wide World. He died July 21, 1982 at age 69.