[Brian Nelson, Cnn Anchor:] Well, from "Mayberry" to "Matlock," Andy Griffith has been a TV fixture for years now.
[Kyra Phillips, Cnn Anchor:] You're starting to have a little Southern accent. I heard it. North Carolina's favorite son is being featured in a new exhibit at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Rick Armstrong of affiliate WRAL reports.
[Laura Baxley, North Carolina Collection Gallery:] People visit the gallery. They know that Andy Griffith is a graduate of the university. And we often get questions about him and his career.
[Rick Armstrong, Wral Reporter:] These images may answer many of the questions visitors have about Andy Griffith, what he looked like as a boy growing up in Mount Airy, North Carolina, the roles he played as a member of UNC's Playmakers Repertory Company.
[Baxley:] And it's a great shot, because he's in full costume. And if someone hadn't told me it was Andy Griffith, I probably never would have known that.
[Armstrong:] Mostly, the photographs and artifacts tell the story of a career born on this campus, where Griffith was forced to remap his career goals.
[Baxley:] In fact, he disliked his sociology class so much that he walked out and took an F in it. And that of course pretty much ended his dreams of becoming a Moravian minister.
[Armstrong:] Griffith took to the stage as an actor and comic. One routine became a record. [Begin Audio Clip, "what It Was, Was Football"]
[Andy Griffith, Actor:] And what I seen was this whole raft of people a-settin'on these two banks, and a-lookin'at one another across this pretty little green cow pasture.
[Armstrong:] The record inspired a character, which inspired a play, a movie, even a comic book. From stage to film and then to TV, Griffith's career inspired coloring books, trivia games, even a restaurant chain.
[Baxley:] And I think one thing that will stand out most is a can of Andy Griffith Navy Beans.
[Armstrong:] And people, especially North Carolinians, bought the beans and watched the shows, because Andy was, and still is, one of us.
[Baxley:] He never forgot the fact that he was from North Carolina. He was never afraid to announce that fact and even incorporate it into a lot of his characters.
[Nelson:] Well, Barney, it was nice to see Barney again, too.
[Phillips:] Exactly, Don Knotts was one of my favorites. He was he's terrific.
[Nelson:] That exhibit, you were going to say?
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