Jerry Dunphy Editor's note: I realize this is not exactly a Jerry Dunphy Bio but it will appear here until we prepare a proper bio page. A duplicate of this page can be accessed from "Table of Contents".

I found the following about Dunphy as related to me by Joe Sands who got it direct from Leon Drew.

Leon Drew recalls:

Our relationship began in Milwaukee where Ed Bunker, Ted Shaker, By Colvig and I were
assigned the task of getting the company's (CBS Stations Division) first UHF station on the
air. Jerry and his family came through on a vacation trip in late summer of 1955. He was
unaware that I had just released our new anchor when I suggested that, so long as he was
there, he go through an informal camera check. He was then with a station in Wichita Falls.
Hearing him read some copy, and looking at him on camera, I phoned Ed Bunker asking
him to come back to the control room, adding that I believed we had just discovered our new
anchorman. Ed agreed and to Jerry's surprise, he was on the air in Milwaukee two weeks later.

When the company determined to phase out the Milwaukee operation, Ed was sent to Washington
DC, Ted to New York, By Colvig to L.A., and I went to St. Louis to work on acquisition of KMOX-TV.
Jerry, seeing the indicators, elected to accept an announcer's position at WBBM-TV, Chicago.

Some three years later, when Bob Wood brought me to KNXT (as program director) he had just
fired Bill Stout and told me my first assignment was to find the proper anchorman for The Big
News, then in the planning stage. He wasn't at all happy when I told him about Jerry Dunphy but
he did agree to let me bring him out for an audition. That was in February, 1960, when we were
still sharing the Vine Street space with KHJ-TV. If my memory is correct, I wrote on a cocktail
napkin at the Grapevine that his starting salary was either $21K or 24K. Hard to believe, isn't
it?

Thirteen years later, one of the many station managers to roll through KNXT, Russ Barry, I
believe, let Jerry go. The next morning I had a call from John Severino, whom I had known in
Chicago, who was now the manager of KABC-TV, saying, "You'll never guess what I just did,"
to which I replied, "that's easy. You just hired Jerry Dunphy."

Editor's note: Shortly after, Barry called Severino to cry foul, that he (Severino) had assured
Russ that he had no interest in hiring Jerry if Barry were to fire him. Said John to Russ, "I lied."