The Hung Up Ham Radio

Jean Parker Shepherd Jr. was an American storyteller, humorist, radio and TV personality, writer, and actor. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is known for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he narrated and co-scripted on the basis of his own semi-autobiographical stories.

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“The Hung Up Ham Radio.” The Jean Shepherd Show. Radio broadcast, March 7, 1963.