From the Newspaper Archives

As a fresh off the farm fresh new face in Hollywood fifty-plus years ago, I learned from the old timers to never worry about what was written about you; just make sure they spelled your name correctly. I mention this because in the articles written over the years about the Jean London Show, we would laugh about the discrepancies but I would subconsciously check to see if they spelled our names correctly.

Colonel McCain said that reporters rarely inquired of the Base Special Services office about the correct attendance numbers of the Shows - - even the SCOUT reporters.

When I began work on creating this Site for Archives history, Brian LeMay, then editor of the Pendleton SCOUT informed me they had NO newspaper morgue from 35/40 years ago. When I told him I had located a box of old yellowed, tattered copies of the SCOUT articles, he said I probably had the only copies of that history. The articles, with all the discrepancies, brought back wonderful memories for me; I hope all vets will also enjoy them. We must remember: reporters write articles slanted for their readership . . . and sometimes even for their political or financial worth to Publishers.

This Site has no financial or political slant; it is only a remembering to NOT forget the hundreds of thousands very young brave Americans who fought in the Vietnam War and also the hundreds of stars and entertainers who gave freely of their performance time to give the young servicemen and women a brief moment of fun and laughter.

Newspaper Archives
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• Not dated - article from The Pendleton SCOUT: "London show Planned at San Onofre Theater"
• November 29, 1968 - The Pendleton SCOUT: 2nd Anniversary Show highlights announcing the Show to be "the longest running Show in Base annals."
• May 2, 1969 - The Pendleton SCOUT article: "Performers Honored during Onofre Show"
• October/November issue - The Armed Forces News.  A 5-page spread: "The Wonderful World of Morale Building"
• November 28, 1969 - The Pendleton SCOUT:  "Jean London Troupe Sock It To 2nd ITR for 3rd Consecutive Year"
• November issue 1970 - The Armed Forces News:  A 3-page 4th Anniversary tribute.  "A Hollywood Nightingale" 
• November 23, 1970 - The San Diego UNION: "Show Buoys Marine Morale"
• November 25, 1970 - The Pendleton SCOUT: "Jean London Show Celebrates 4th Year for ITR Marines"  South Dakota Governor Frank Farrar proclaims 'Jean London Day' in South Dakota.  President Nixon congratulates the effort.
• April 1971 issue - The SINGLE'S CRITIQUE distributed in L.A., San Diego, Seattle, Portland & San Francisco:  "Man's Humanity To Man"
• July 15, 1971 - The POST (Pico, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Century City, (CA): "West Hollywood Starlet Marines' Everything Girl"
• October 31, 1971 - The Stockton RECORD (CA): "Marines In Showbusiness"
• November 26, 1971 - The Pendleton SCOUT: "Jean London Show Celebrates 5th Anniversary at San Onofre"
• August 2, 1972 - The HOLLYWOOD NEWSPAPER:  "From The Halls Of Pendleton . . . " 
• November 14, 1972 - San Gabriel Valley TRIBUNE (CA): "Valleyite Producing Record Camp Show"
• November 16, 1972 - The Pendleton SCOUT: Jean London Show 6th Anniversary
• May 10, 1973 - The STAFF (largest circulation rag publication in L.A. Arts & Entertainment)  Cover photo: the award-winning photo by Joyce Widoff titled "Innocence", plus three page article - "The All American Girl Does It".  A taped interview with Jean honoring her labors as the Pendleton Show came to a close

(Above) The photo shows Jean and myself getting a laugh from the movie magazine that said she had possibly been one of Robert Conrad’s girlfriends. He was the star of The Wild Wild West TV series. She actually didn’t even know who he was, but remembered him as a man attending one of her photo shoots for the Toys For Tots campaign, and he got into a photo with her. At least they spelled her name correctly! That particular scrapbook was stolen and later discovered destroyed in the trunk of a stolen car in Florida.

(Above) Jean did radio interviews for, I believe, the Camp Pendleton Base as well as taped interviews for the SCOUT. The first off-Base interviews were with the Armed Forces Radio Network. She did a number of shows with Bill Boyd, who, following his AFN stint, went on to create a talent agency, become President of the West Coast Academy of Country Music, and a producer with Dick Clark Productions.