… a little experiment in beating the odds, Jim …
The highlight of every morning on KOL was Mr. Science and Jimmy. Around 8:10 a.m., an elderly scientist and a little boy were the vehicles for political commentary by Lan Roberts who, many mornings, put it all together himself.
Lan Roberts, WTIX, 1961
On this occasion, it is Washington State legislators who are the target of Lan’s wrath. With the latest gambling laws, even charitable bingos in churches were illegal. Another popular religious fund-raiser was the Cake
Walk, portrayed here.
Lan Roberts arrived at KOL in 1961 from WTIX New Orleans, but moved to KJR within six months. He returned to KOL in 1969, again returning to KJR a few years later, only to move to Hawaii then Taiwan not long after.
Lan passed away December 30, 2005 after a decade-long fight with cancer in his home town of Bonham, Texas.
Right up to the end, he continued his daily Editorials, which he had moved to written form on the Internet. Some things never change.