JOHNNY CARSON REPLACES JACK PAAR

THE MORNING SHOW TV HISTORY

JOHNNY CARSON TO REPLACE JACK PAAR

Monday, December 13, 1954 : Baltimore Evening Sun, Baltimore , Maryland.

Johnny Carson, a young Hollywood comedian, will take over for Jack Paar, as host

of the “Morning Show”, January 3, while Paar is on vacatoion in Cuba.

Carson, who won critics acclaim last season when he took over the Red Skel ton

Show on a four hour notice when Skelton fell ill. Johnny Carson first won an audience

in Corning , Iowa while in high school as an magician and ventriloquist.

During WW II as a Navy Ensign , served on the USS Pennsylvania, as an

Entertainer, was discharged in 1949 , and became a television announcer in Omaha.

While there he married Jody Wolcott and headed toward Hollywood. Last summer he was

emcee for the quiz show “Earn Your Vacation”

Corning is the County Seat of Adams County Seat Iowa , sits at the intersection of

Highway U. S. 34 and Iowa 148 southwest of Omaha . Carson is also the 1877 birthplace

of Daniel Webster Turner, Governor of Iowa 1931 to 1933. It was a settlement of French

Icarians on the Icaria Lake.

Home of the “Johnny Carson Birthplace Society”, and the annual celebration of

“Le Festival De L'Heritage Francais”.

Abstract: Baltimore Evening Sun, Monday, 13 December, 1954 and Wikipedia.