This was before the right stuff, his books and the AC Delco commercials, the rank is still Colonel, he wasn't know much outside of military aviation at that time. How many people know the name of the current absolute air speed holder? (Eldon Jorez)
Yeager was disdainful of NASA and the civilian space program. He thought space should be explored by pilots in rocket propelled planes. He called astronauts "Spam in a can".
"The Count Of Monte Kisco" is a reference to Mt. Kisco in Westchester County, NY. After the war Bennett discovered the land which was being sold very cheaply. He bought several plots, one for a weekend home for him and his family and the others to sell. He sold plots for weekend homes to Arlene and Martin Gabel and John Daly. While Bennett did make a nice profit, the land continued to increase in value, so Arlene and John got good deals, themselves.
short memories.... this was prob thirteen years after his name was the in paper. Anyone remember seeing Yeager in late 60's when Bob Barker had him on Truth or Consequences? Funny Mr Daly doing that bomb sound as he was the announcer that broke in with"Pearl Harbor has been attacked by air"...
He lived outside of Beale AFB, CA. He would sometimes come through the gate I guarded, in his red Ford pickup with Bell X-1 license plates. This was back in 1983. He was always nice when he came through.
The book, "The Right Stuff," was written by Tom Wolfe, and has a few chapters in it about Yeager and his exploits, after reading them, it's a wonder how this man survived what he went through.
@blueticecho how bout edwards afb, where i spent my entire 4 years tour of duty...and when chuck was still an active pilot! what an experience for a boy from small town new england.
These What's My Line clips are fascinating. Part of me longs to have lived back in that era, and the other part of me realizes the irony in that the only reason I can watch these clips is that I live in the Internet era.
I'm surprised that no one knew who he was; these are very erudite people, Kilgallen especially as a journalist who spent time in California.
Yeager, while he did retire as colonel or general, he's mostly known as "Captain" Yeager, the rank he was when he accomplished what he did, much as Eddie Rickenbacker was also addressed as "Captain."
@SatchmoSings you have to remember that the X-1 was a top secret project and that this was slap in the middle of the Cold War. Information wasn't as free flowing as it is today.
@LKKruse Yeager was awarded the MacKay and Collier Trophies in 1948 for his mach-transcending flight, and the Harmon International Trophy in 1954. (Wikipedia) Obviously, this accomplishment had to be known.
Give me something to "Google," within parentheses so I can search on what you claim.
One of my fahter's closest friends, who was in Navy, told this story. He was sworn to secercy by the Department of Defense not to say anything about it. They did not come out and publicly announce who the man was until the Mid-1960s. Chuck Yeager got in trouble from the Navy by talking about it in public before they announced it.
@MsJollycholly She suffered an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills. it was never ruled a suicide but an accidental death. Conspiracy theorists think she was murdered because she had done an interview with Oswald assassin, Jack Ruby, and somehow "knew" the the "truth" about Oswald and Kennedy.
@MsJollycholly I can see you don't have the internet, otherwise you could have just skipped to that part of her bio on "Wikipedia" rather than ask someone to spoon-feed you the answer.
@SatchmoSings Thank you for your kind and astute reply. That you would so selflessly offer your wealth of knowledge and great repository of facts. Why, you must be a professor, or scholar of incredible reknown to have the amazing insights and abilities which you have clearly displayed here. And so trusting you must be, or NAIVE, that you permit Wiki-anything to 'spoon feed YOU' that which you consider to be the 'truth'? Satchmosings? Change it to 'Dim-Bulb', you defile a great man.
@MsJollycholly I just find it very odd, if not pretty idiotic, that people ask "ad hoc" questions when a genuine and definitive answer are merely a few mouse-clicks away.
Thank you for your angry answer all full of apologia and your justification for refusing to be more self-reliant.
@SatchmoSings - you must be inherently inept, to say the least, that you require this to meet some vacancy in your psyche. What a void you represent...........no further comment is necessary. Other than that again, your screen name is in no way representative of that which you post. IF someone makes their presence known on a thread one can assume interest, or some connection with the subject. In your case, however, your represent the quintessential troll. You are truly a void.
@SatchmoSings - You claim to be 57 years old. If you ARE this old, then it is YOU who best embodies the term 'shithead-retard' and you've wasted your life. At your age, to be such a dullard in your use of vocabulary reveals a pathetic miscreant. You lack simple insight to know your own motives! The VOID is the realm you occupy in the universe: You = null. Thus your affinity for excreta is no a surprise. Given that you are an aging and irrelevant dung beetle I hereby rename you: DUST FART!
@MsJollycholly You remind me of the kid in school, who, when the teacher is showing the class math, you raise your hand in order to ask a question of George Washington's false teeth.
I made a very legitimate criticism of your total inability to look up a point for yourself despite having the tremendous resource of the internet; you're an incredible loser and a genuinely stupid idiot for not considering this and your defense of this is just more of your total loser idiocy.
@SatchmoSings Sad, 57 year old degenerate who writes like a silly brat!. Kilgalen's cause of death is still in dispute today and ONLY a CRETIN makes fun of a question. Your persona is evident: you are but a MEAGRE TROLL, sitting in your soiled adult diaper, capable only of perserverating over miniutiae, using antics that any NORMAL 57 y.o. would be ASHAMED of. I KNOW Gen. Yeager personally. His review of you: 'he's a pustule who never served in uniform!" NOW - Go hang your head.
@MsJollycholly I know you must have totally misrepresented me to Capt. Yeager; I know you didn't show him the entire thread, let alone my previous post.
I very much doubt you know Capt. Yeager because this is his preferred way of being addressed since it was as a Captain that he accomplished his most famous feat. (The same goes for Capt. Rickenbacker, or, Capt. Eddie as he actually preferred.)
Indeed, I find it odd & even sick that you would even bother someone like Yeager with all this crap.
@SatchmoSings - I call him General and that's what he LIKES to be called. I didn't have to DO anything - he can READ and knows you're a mutant. He's a bright man and likes the word 'pustule'. You know NOTHING of him firsthand, only what you READ and since you BELIEVE everything you READ on the INTERNET, you know NOTHING of him nor of Kilgalen. Grow up, infantile 57 year old fool and accept your utter impotence! You never served and now at 57, have no relevance except to troll.
@clarklk read 'the right stuff', or watch the movie, or better yet - sit on a rocket and accellerate to Mach I. then, return here and ask for forgiveness for your foolishness and lack of aviation knowledge.
@MsJollycholly LOL!! Perhaps the most important part of your note was, "sit on a rocket..." That's what he did, "sit". And for sitting greatest is attibuted?
@clarklk - clearly you are a dunce. Don't bother to reply. You are vacant and unworthy to speak the General's Name. Return to your Justin Beiber fan page, where you fit in with the other low wattage, dim bulbs.,
In its later years, in the summer, WML? ran episodes that had been taped earlier in the year. This episode was actually taped on May 10, 1964, so Steve Lawrence was still 28, definitely within the age range mentioned by Yeager. He could have protested, but decided to let it go. Maybe he didn't want to point out his age, because his wife was four years older than he was, and maybe she was touchy about it.
@spelvin214 I think Chuck might have mean't that Steve was too old to start from scratch, being an untrained civilian. If he joined the Airforce at 28 it would take several years training and flight experience before he could even apply for space flight training and by then he would be too old.
I'm surprised nobody asked about government. How on earth did they get onto babies? Dorothy was getting close though, which shows her great reporter's skill.
FYI: Steve Lawrence was born July 8, 1935....this show aired August 23, 1964. He was 29 years and six weeks old. So he would have probably had just graduated if he had gone to that school. Close call on the age issue.
There would be no facial recognition expected. Yeager broke the sound barrier in 47. Most people didn't have TV (Milton Berle didn't even begin until 48) and those that did were watching a grainy b&w screen the size of a wrist watch. Newspapers didn't have much or any photography (usually just an ink drawing). This show aired in 64. Though he had broken new records since then he became old news next to John Glenn's orbit in 62. It was a different era.
If you listen to Chuck Yeager's tonality and manner of speaking, you will hear the manner of speaking of virtually every commercial and military pilot who followed in his footsteps. A real American hero. Thanks very much for posting.
This was before the right stuff, his books and the AC Delco commercials, the rank is still Colonel, he wasn't know much outside of military aviation at that time. How many people know the name of the current absolute air speed holder? (Eldon Jorez)
fk4515 1 month ago
WOW
A truly amazing man not even known by name, appearance or what he achieved...
nowadays a Khardasian is instantly recognizable for what...
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rotyoung 2 months ago
@ 8:43 Daly is giving Bennett the finger for Benett's "obsession" with babies.
RelVleDy 2 months ago
Yeager was disdainful of NASA and the civilian space program. He thought space should be explored by pilots in rocket propelled planes. He called astronauts "Spam in a can".
observer9670 4 months ago 3
@observer9670 RIGHT !
bondita 3 months ago
"The Count Of Monte Kisco" is a reference to Mt. Kisco in Westchester County, NY. After the war Bennett discovered the land which was being sold very cheaply. He bought several plots, one for a weekend home for him and his family and the others to sell. He sold plots for weekend homes to Arlene and Martin Gabel and John Daly. While Bennett did make a nice profit, the land continued to increase in value, so Arlene and John got good deals, themselves.
observer9670 5 months ago
short memories.... this was prob thirteen years after his name was the in paper. Anyone remember seeing Yeager in late 60's when Bob Barker had him on Truth or Consequences? Funny Mr Daly doing that bomb sound as he was the announcer that broke in with"Pearl Harbor has been attacked by air"...
irish89055 5 months ago
He lived outside of Beale AFB, CA. He would sometimes come through the gate I guarded, in his red Ford pickup with Bell X-1 license plates. This was back in 1983. He was always nice when he came through.
Forensource 6 months ago
The book, "The Right Stuff," was written by Tom Wolfe, and has a few chapters in it about Yeager and his exploits, after reading them, it's a wonder how this man survived what he went through.
Eds7570 6 months ago
@Eds7570 He had "The Right Stuff"
BigTex541 5 months ago
The Right Stuff.
Absolutely ROCKING book by Chuck on the golden age of the USAF/NACA X programme.
NusianceValue 6 months ago
At the time they took pilots with a minimum of only 500 flying hours!
cubberleygirl 6 months ago
Area 51...........
blueticecho 7 months ago
@blueticecho how bout edwards afb, where i spent my entire 4 years tour of duty...and when chuck was still an active pilot! what an experience for a boy from small town new england.
wntoply6 7 months ago
These What's My Line clips are fascinating. Part of me longs to have lived back in that era, and the other part of me realizes the irony in that the only reason I can watch these clips is that I live in the Internet era.
topoisomerace 7 months ago 3
I'm surprised that no one knew who he was; these are very erudite people, Kilgallen especially as a journalist who spent time in California.
Yeager, while he did retire as colonel or general, he's mostly known as "Captain" Yeager, the rank he was when he accomplished what he did, much as Eddie Rickenbacker was also addressed as "Captain."
SatchmoSings 8 months ago
@SatchmoSings you have to remember that the X-1 was a top secret project and that this was slap in the middle of the Cold War. Information wasn't as free flowing as it is today.
NusianceValue 6 months ago
@NusianceValue Yup, no internet then.
Chuck Yeager is a great man and all-around good guy; watch some of the interviews and other stuff that is about right here on "Youtube."
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
@SatchmoSings
He did not actually make big news until the 1960s. It was not until then it was announced that he had broken the sound barrier.
LKKruse 4 months ago
@LKKruse Yeager was awarded the MacKay and Collier Trophies in 1948 for his mach-transcending flight, and the Harmon International Trophy in 1954. (Wikipedia) Obviously, this accomplishment had to be known.
Give me something to "Google," within parentheses so I can search on what you claim.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings
One of my fahter's closest friends, who was in Navy, told this story. He was sworn to secercy by the Department of Defense not to say anything about it. They did not come out and publicly announce who the man was until the Mid-1960s. Chuck Yeager got in trouble from the Navy by talking about it in public before they announced it.
LKKruse 4 months ago
Dorothy is within a year of her untimely death... she does not look well here.
jimaroo100 9 months ago
@jimaroo100 - what was her cause of death?
MsJollycholly 8 months ago
@MsJollycholly She suffered an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills. it was never ruled a suicide but an accidental death. Conspiracy theorists think she was murdered because she had done an interview with Oswald assassin, Jack Ruby, and somehow "knew" the the "truth" about Oswald and Kennedy.
jimaroo100 8 months ago
@jimaroo100 There were enough clues at the scene to sustain the idea that she was MURDERED.
dangraphic 3 weeks ago
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@MsJollycholly I can see you don't have the internet, otherwise you could have just skipped to that part of her bio on "Wikipedia" rather than ask someone to spoon-feed you the answer.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings Thank you for your kind and astute reply. That you would so selflessly offer your wealth of knowledge and great repository of facts. Why, you must be a professor, or scholar of incredible reknown to have the amazing insights and abilities which you have clearly displayed here. And so trusting you must be, or NAIVE, that you permit Wiki-anything to 'spoon feed YOU' that which you consider to be the 'truth'? Satchmosings? Change it to 'Dim-Bulb', you defile a great man.
MsJollycholly 4 months ago
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@MsJollycholly I just find it very odd, if not pretty idiotic, that people ask "ad hoc" questions when a genuine and definitive answer are merely a few mouse-clicks away.
Thank you for your angry answer all full of apologia and your justification for refusing to be more self-reliant.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings - you must be inherently inept, to say the least, that you require this to meet some vacancy in your psyche. What a void you represent...........no further comment is necessary. Other than that again, your screen name is in no way representative of that which you post. IF someone makes their presence known on a thread one can assume interest, or some connection with the subject. In your case, however, your represent the quintessential troll. You are truly a void.
MsJollycholly 4 months ago
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@MsJollycholly I'm truly a "void?"
Well then, I'd love to "void on" YOU, you miserable, unself-reliant shithead-retard.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings - You claim to be 57 years old. If you ARE this old, then it is YOU who best embodies the term 'shithead-retard' and you've wasted your life. At your age, to be such a dullard in your use of vocabulary reveals a pathetic miscreant. You lack simple insight to know your own motives! The VOID is the realm you occupy in the universe: You = null. Thus your affinity for excreta is no a surprise. Given that you are an aging and irrelevant dung beetle I hereby rename you: DUST FART!
MsJollycholly 4 months ago
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@MsJollycholly You remind me of the kid in school, who, when the teacher is showing the class math, you raise your hand in order to ask a question of George Washington's false teeth.
I made a very legitimate criticism of your total inability to look up a point for yourself despite having the tremendous resource of the internet; you're an incredible loser and a genuinely stupid idiot for not considering this and your defense of this is just more of your total loser idiocy.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings Sad, 57 year old degenerate who writes like a silly brat!. Kilgalen's cause of death is still in dispute today and ONLY a CRETIN makes fun of a question. Your persona is evident: you are but a MEAGRE TROLL, sitting in your soiled adult diaper, capable only of perserverating over miniutiae, using antics that any NORMAL 57 y.o. would be ASHAMED of. I KNOW Gen. Yeager personally. His review of you: 'he's a pustule who never served in uniform!" NOW - Go hang your head.
MsJollycholly 4 months ago
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@MsJollycholly I know you must have totally misrepresented me to Capt. Yeager; I know you didn't show him the entire thread, let alone my previous post.
I very much doubt you know Capt. Yeager because this is his preferred way of being addressed since it was as a Captain that he accomplished his most famous feat. (The same goes for Capt. Rickenbacker, or, Capt. Eddie as he actually preferred.)
Indeed, I find it odd & even sick that you would even bother someone like Yeager with all this crap.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings - I call him General and that's what he LIKES to be called. I didn't have to DO anything - he can READ and knows you're a mutant. He's a bright man and likes the word 'pustule'. You know NOTHING of him firsthand, only what you READ and since you BELIEVE everything you READ on the INTERNET, you know NOTHING of him nor of Kilgalen. Grow up, infantile 57 year old fool and accept your utter impotence! You never served and now at 57, have no relevance except to troll.
MsJollycholly 4 months ago
@jimaroo100 She doesn't look well because she's into her fifties and people in "those days" all looked older than they do now, anyway.
That and not having much of a chin didn't help, either.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
For a while their questions were making Yeager sound like a pervert
kozmon0t 10 months ago
Chuck Yeager a hero??!! What are you talking about!??? What has he done to earn such a title?
clarklk 10 months ago
@clarklk read 'the right stuff', or watch the movie, or better yet - sit on a rocket and accellerate to Mach I. then, return here and ask for forgiveness for your foolishness and lack of aviation knowledge.
MsJollycholly 8 months ago
@MsJollycholly LOL!! Perhaps the most important part of your note was, "sit on a rocket..." That's what he did, "sit". And for sitting greatest is attibuted?
clarklk 8 months ago
@clarklk - clearly you are a dunce. Don't bother to reply. You are vacant and unworthy to speak the General's Name. Return to your Justin Beiber fan page, where you fit in with the other low wattage, dim bulbs.,
MsJollycholly 8 months ago
@clarklk
You cant be serious!?!?
KMartin730 7 months ago
@clarklk I see that "The Internet," let alone basic READING skills are clearly something beyond you.
Captain (later Gen.) Charles Yeager was not only a hero, he's a thoroughly decent man which in some ways is also quite important.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
Is that a man? You damn right it is!
flaggerify 11 months ago
I like how John gave Bennett the middle finger at 8:43
2nightstalker 11 months ago
@2nightstalker So true!!!
lttguys 9 months ago
Whoa! You'd never hear anyone talking like these hosts on modern television.
TheWizardTrembyle 1 year ago
Chuck is very much a hero.
phil123711 1 year ago
So cool! I cant believe I've never seen this! Thanks for sharing!
yeag2006 1 year ago
this was the best EVER!! Fantastic thanks for posting!!
homebuiltindoorplane 1 year ago
In its later years, in the summer, WML? ran episodes that had been taped earlier in the year. This episode was actually taped on May 10, 1964, so Steve Lawrence was still 28, definitely within the age range mentioned by Yeager. He could have protested, but decided to let it go. Maybe he didn't want to point out his age, because his wife was four years older than he was, and maybe she was touchy about it.
spelvin214 1 year ago
@spelvin214 I think Chuck might have mean't that Steve was too old to start from scratch, being an untrained civilian. If he joined the Airforce at 28 it would take several years training and flight experience before he could even apply for space flight training and by then he would be too old.
gragrn 1 year ago
I like waching this.
Most children today could never play this game because they aren't taught to question in a logically progressively manor. (Or think analytically)
It is truly a shame. Regardless of what may be the cause of it.
goodgigs 1 year ago 3
"What's My Line" ROCKS! Chuck Yeager ROCKS! Mr Daly ROCKS!
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
This guy has "The Right Stuff"
softshoes 1 year ago
I'm surprised nobody asked about government. How on earth did they get onto babies? Dorothy was getting close though, which shows her great reporter's skill.
xander7ful 1 year ago
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He's from West Virginia, yet he is so smart. Thats something you don't see from West Virginia.
LickMyCuntMoFo 2 years ago
I'm truly amazed that the name "Yeager" didn't spill the beans right off the bat. You'd think at least one of them would have known the name.
wmlfan9 2 years ago 13
FYI: Steve Lawrence was born July 8, 1935....this show aired August 23, 1964. He was 29 years and six weeks old. So he would have probably had just graduated if he had gone to that school. Close call on the age issue.
Gnillob802 2 years ago
I'm really surprised they weren't blindfolded...this was big news and surely there should have been name or facial recognition????
HowardOfOz3565 2 years ago
There would be no facial recognition expected. Yeager broke the sound barrier in 47. Most people didn't have TV (Milton Berle didn't even begin until 48) and those that did were watching a grainy b&w screen the size of a wrist watch. Newspapers didn't have much or any photography (usually just an ink drawing). This show aired in 64. Though he had broken new records since then he became old news next to John Glenn's orbit in 62. It was a different era.
Gnillob802 2 years ago 2
Haha ;D love it at 8:02 when Dorothy "sinks" down in her chair ;D
saraismyname 2 years ago 4
I LOVE CHUCK YEAGER!!! He is one of the greatest men who ever lived and the GREATEST PILOT EVER!!!!! :)
tracyterry 2 years ago 14
Great episode!!
I couldn't help but notice what skinny legs Dorothy has!
Arlene loooked GOOD!
CarlyIsAGangster 2 years ago 2
I love Dorothy's hair that way, and yes it's one of her thin months.
Arlene looks fantastic too.
chrishanson70 2 years ago
Dorothy is amazing as usual, but the panelists should have picked up the "maam"s and thought he was in the military.
63utuber 2 years ago 3
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arlene has BIG arms!
VTMCompany 2 years ago
If you listen to Chuck Yeager's tonality and manner of speaking, you will hear the manner of speaking of virtually every commercial and military pilot who followed in his footsteps. A real American hero. Thanks very much for posting.
13loomisst 2 years ago 2
Thank you :)
weatdamal 2 years ago
Thank you for these new videos! Very interesting and educational!
dialectgirl 2 years ago