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Old 12-13-22, 05:36 PM   #1
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Bob Barker (from the Price Is Right fame)

Robert William Barker
December 12, 1923 (age 99)

Barker spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. The U.S. Indian Census Rolls, 1885–1940, list Barker as an enrolled member of the Sioux tribe. His mother, Matilda ("Tillie") Valandra (née Matilda Kent Tarleton), was a school teacher; his father, Byron John Barker, was the foreman on the electrical high line through the state of Washington. Barker's father was one-quarter Sioux and his mother was not, so Barker was one-eighth Sioux. Barker went to the Sioux school in Mission. He once said, "I've always bragged about being part Indian, because they are a people to be proud of. And the Sioux were the greatest warriors of them all."

Barker met his future wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, at an Ella Fitzgerald concert while he was attending high school in Missouri; they began dating when he was 15. He attended Drury College (now Drury University) in Springfield, Missouri, on a basketball athletic scholarship. He was a member of the Epsilon Beta chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity at Drury. He joined the United States Navy Reserve in 1943 during World War II to train as a fighter pilot, but did not serve on active duty. During leave from the military, he married Dorothy Jo on January 12, 1945. After the war, he returned to Drury to finish his education, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in economics.

In 1994, former model Dian Parkinson filed a lawsuit against Barker alleging sexual harassment following a three-year affair while working on The Price Is Right. Parkinson, who alleged that she was extorted by threats of firing, later dropped her lawsuit, claiming the stress from the ordeal was damaging her health.

In 1995, model Holly Hallstrom left The Price Is Right and later filed suit against Barker, alleging that the reason she was fired was not so much because of her 14 lb medication-mediated weight gain (as documented), but because, to Barker's displeasure, she refused to give false information to the media regarding Parkinson's suit, as she alleges Barker had requested she do. Barker countersued for slander, but Hallstrom prevailed, receiving a settlement in 2005.

In October 2007, Deborah Curling, a CBS employee assigned to The Price Is Right, filed a lawsuit against CBS, Bob Barker and The Price Is Right producers, claiming that she was forced to quit her job after testifying against Barker in a wrongful-termination lawsuit brought by a previous show producer. Curling claimed that she was demoted to an "intolerable work environment" backstage which caused her to leave the job. Curling, who is black, also alleged that the show's producers, including Barker, created a hostile work environment in which black employees and contestants were discriminated against. A few months later, Barker was removed from the lawsuit, and in September 2009, the lawsuit was dismissed. Curling's attorney stated that he planned to appeal the dismissal of the lawsuit. In January 2012, the California Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal.
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Old 12-14-22, 01:28 AM   #2
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He got a good spin in The Game of Life.



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Old 12-21-22, 02:05 AM   #3
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IN short: Dian Parkinson: Holly Hallstrom: and Deborah Curling all Sioux'd Bob Barker??!!
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Buzz Aldrin born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930 is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two people to land on the Moon.
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Buzz Aldrin born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930 is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two people to land on the Moon.

David Scott (*June 6, 1932, Apollo 15), Charles Duke (*October 3, 1935, Apollo 16) and Harrison Schmitt (*July 3, 1935, Apollo 17) are the other three astronauts who walked on the moon and are still alive.


Of the 12 men who flew to the moon, but didn't land, six are still alive:
Frank Borman (*March 14, 1928, Apollo 8)
Jim Lovell (*March 25, 1928, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13)
Bill Anders (*October 17, 1933, Apollo 8)
Tom Stafford (*September 17, 1930, Apollo 10)
Fred Haise (*November 14, 1933, Apollo 13)
Ken Mattingly (*March 17, 1936, Apollo 16)
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