The Shepherd Begins The Program By Announcing That He'll Be In Asia Until May

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 Shepherd Begins The Program By Announcing That He'll Be In Asia Until May.” The Jean Shepherd Show. Radio broadcast, April 24, 1965.