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SATURDAY EVENING POST – PART 3

Once signed, Rogers sat around for a few months doing nothing.  Then he sang a song in a dust-storm picture “Under Western Stars.”  The dust-storm sequence was shot on one of the windiest days that California had ever had.  “We had wind machines along, but no wind machine could have equalled what Nature dished up,” said …

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Saturday Evening Post, June 9, 1945 – Part 1 – Day 1

Larry Z found a fabulous interview with my Dad (Roy Rogers) in the June 9, 1945 issue of the Saturday Evening Post (very popular magazine) . The interview was done by one of their top writers, Pete Martin, and is very long so I am going to post it in parts. I was only five …

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