52 Years Later...

On June 16, 1959 the world learned that television's first Man of Steel was dead...

Over the course of the past 52 years many people have gone back and forth with the truth - did he end his own life or was he murdered?  Whatever the truth is, one thing is fact, he was dead and the spirit of many children across America took an incredible blow.

Born January 5, 1914, in appeared in several Hollywood films including Gone With The Wind, From Here to Eternity, So Proudly We Hail, and The Blue Gardenia before stepping into the red and blue costume that would make him a legend.  Every chance they got, his "Superman" co-stars Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen), Phyllis Coates (Lois Lane #1), Noel Neill (Lois Lane #2) and Robert Shayne (Inspector Henderson) always talked about what a good friend he was and how seriously he took role as Superman/Clark Kent.  Shayne passed away in 1992 but Larson, Coates and Neill continue to this day to remind us of how special the man was.  Jack Larson always shares a story saying that the actor had a sign over his dressing room door in which he called himself "Honest George, The People's Friend."   

And so on this day, 52 years after his passing---

In Memoriam Remembers:
George Reeves

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