Shelby William Storck (October 3, 1916 – April 5, 1969) was an American newscaster, actor, writer, journalist, public relations specialist, and motion picture and television producer-director. He was a radio actor on The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen and other programs, and appeared in the feature films The Delinquents and The Cool and the Crazy. A descendant of General Joseph O. Shelby, Shelby Storck was born in Kansas City, Missouri and in 1937 graduated from the University of Kansas City, now the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he had been active in student government, theatrical performances, and as an editor of the campus newspaper. Storck worked as a newscaster for the Kansas City Star and its affiliated radio station WDAF from 1939 until he joined the Navy in 1942. A Navy bomber pilot, he rose to the rank of lieutenant before being honorably discharged in 1945. Two of his years of service had been in the Mediterranean theater, where he saw action during World War II. Post-World War II years On returning to Kansas City, Storck rejoined WDAF and again resumed newscaster duties but soon moved on to become campaign manager of Kansas City attorney Jerome Walsh's unsuccessful run for congressional office. Storck then joined the staff of T. R. Finn & Associates as its publicity director. He was assistant director of education and organization for the Consumers Cooperative Association, now known as Farmland Industries, from 1947 to 1949 and was public relations director and assistant manager of the North Kansas City Development Company in 1949 and 1950. He was also a semi-professional actor in local radio, television, civic theater, and in films made in the Kansas City area. Storck's first wife, the former Barbara Marsh, died of bulbar polio in 1950. He later established a Barbara Storck Memorial award for poetry at the University of Kansas City in her memory. Shortly after his wife's death, Storck returned to broadcasting in 1951 and joined the staff of Kansas City's first television station, WDAF-TV (Channel 4), becoming the region's first television weather presenter. Within months, he played an instrumental role in the station's coverage of the Great Flood of 1951. Despite his local popularity, Storck left the WDAF-TV post after a labor dispute in 1953. Films Shelby Storck continued in radio and television work through the 1950s, working between Kansas City and St. Louis, making documentary films which he often narrated