After graduating with a degree in speech and drama , he married Margaret Helen Jesse in 1956 , and they moved to Dallas , Texas . His acting career took off when he worked as a mid-day disc jockey on WFAA in Dallas . He also occasionally appeared on WFAA-TV Channel 8 , playing Creech , an outer space creature on the " Dialing for Dollars " segments on Ed Hogan 's afternoon movies . He gave an in-studio report from WFAA radio station on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated , and was among the first to interview eyewitnesses W. E. Newman , Jr. and Gayle Newman
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