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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, Gary Moore!
00:22Nice to see you. We'll get off to a fast start this time by simply telling you that our first guest is a gentleman with a truly
00:28remarkable approach to the rental business. And we'll meet him as soon as we meet our rented panel here on to tell the truth.
00:37Tom Fulton!
00:40Peggy Pax!
00:44Gene Rader!
00:47And Kenny Carmine!
00:49Tom Fulton!
00:51Wow!
00:52Woohoo!
00:58Just don't make any fast moves.
01:01You're remarkable of us as a rebel.
01:04Kitty missed a payment on her dress and they took the front back.
01:08Not at all.
01:09That's very handsome.
01:10They certainly don't make any fast moves.
01:14I don't intend to.
01:17Here they are now.
01:19Folks, before we go any further, this is very rude of me, but will you forgive me? I have a very important phone call.
01:25Wait a minute.
01:27Let me take a second.
01:29What happened?
01:31My, this is television.
01:34Yeah.
01:35Yeah, hello. Hi.
01:36Yeah, this is Gary Moore.
01:37Listen, I have time today for a game of tennis.
01:42Do you suppose you could send me a girl over?
01:43I like to play tennis with girls.
01:45Look at this.
01:46Just send a girl over to...
01:48Well, that's fast.
01:50Don't hang up.
01:52Because later this afternoon, I think I might want to go to the racetrack.
01:54I hate to go to the racetrack.
01:55You got anybody who knows anything about races?
01:57Me.
01:58Anybody wants to...
01:59Yes.
02:00Oh, wow.
02:02Yeah, well, now, I'll tell you what.
02:04Later, much later this evening,
02:08I will be very interested in going dancing.
02:15You got anybody who would like to go, who is for rent, who would like to...
02:20Oh, yeah.
02:22Yes, yes.
02:23Thank you very, very much.
02:25Yeah, I'll call you again.
02:27Well.
02:28Well.
02:29I knew you thought the Yellow Pages only got your plumbers.
02:33That's...
02:34These three young ladies are all part of a remarkable organization,
02:38and it's called Rent-A-Bird.
02:41Rent-A-Bird.
02:42And let's find out who our fine-feathered friends are.
02:45Tennis lady, we're going to get the boom microphone into you,
02:47and tennis lady, what is your name?
02:50Jean Hanna.
02:51Hi, Jean.
02:52Hi.
02:53And my racetrack partner?
02:54Gail Heller.
02:55Hi, Gail.
02:56Hi.
02:57And who am I going to go dancing with?
02:58Claire Catalano.
02:59Oh, I'm glad, Claire.
03:00Good.
03:01Well, now, I'll tell you what.
03:02Why don't you all, now that we've rented you,
03:04we might as well rent you to take over Johnny Olsen's job just for once
03:08and introduce the gentleman who came up with this idea, okay?
03:12All right.
03:13Curtain, music.
03:18Number one, what is your name, please?
03:20My name is Alan Budd.
03:22Number two, what is your name, please?
03:24My name is Alan Budd.
03:26Number three, what is your name, please?
03:28My name is Alan Budd.
03:30That's what they all say.
03:31Only one of them, of course, is Alan Budd, and here is his affy-daffy.
03:34It says here,
03:35I, Alan Budd, am responsible for the return of the Age of Elegance.
03:41I am co-owner of a service which provides attractive, intelligent young women
03:45as escorts for gentlemanly-type fellows.
03:49Endorsed by the Miami Chamber of Commerce
03:51and approved by the Miami Police Department,
03:54my unusual rental service is called, appropriately enough, Rent-A-Bird.
03:59Needless to say, we insist on always maintaining the highest standards of conduct.
04:04My birds are available for dining and dancing,
04:07for sightseeing, for scuba diving, or perhaps for tennis.
04:12Perhaps my most unusual request for Rent-A-Bird came from an ornithologist.
04:17I had to disappoint him.
04:18The bird he wanted to rent was a flamingo.
04:23He didn't seem to understand.
04:25Signed, Alan Budd.
04:34And we'll pause briefly to give Kate Miller time to write us a letter, and I'll be right back.
04:45And now, a poem from Nipsey Russell.
04:49The opposite of pro is con, that show network.
04:54We have with us three ingenious gentlemen all claiming to be Alan Budd, co-owner of an organization that rents female escorts.
05:01And let's start the questioning with a man with an educated eye, Mr. Gene Rayburn.
05:05Thank you, sir.
05:06Oh, yes.
05:07First thing I'd like to do is bet $2 on the girl in the rose print dress.
05:11Number two, how do you recruit your people?
05:14Well, we find them by looking around, and we let them know that we are interested in girls who would like to do that.
05:23Do you mean just you walk around and you say I'm looking for a girl?
05:25Yes.
05:26Okay.
05:27Number three, are these girls moonlighting?
05:31I mean, do any of them do this full-time?
05:34The birds generally work full-time.
05:37They're full-time girls?
05:38Full-time girls.
05:39Now, number three, do they come to work every day, whether you have a call for a scuba diver or not?
05:47No, we generally keep them pretty busy in any capacity we can.
05:53Thank you, Gene.
05:54And we go to Kitty.
05:55Well, I know you can rent almost anything you want in this country, but I never knew you could rent a girl.
06:00Number one, I can't believe, as number two said, that you just find them by accident.
06:05How do you process these ladies?
06:06Are they bonded?
06:07They're not bonded, no.
06:09We generally advertise, and I personally check all the girls myself before we hire them.
06:15You make sure they don't have a police record or anything?
06:17Well, among other things, yes.
06:18I see.
06:19Number two, how long have you been in operation?
06:21Four years.
06:23Number three, have you had any marriages come out of this or lasting relationships, as we say?
06:27No.
06:28Nothing?
06:29Nothing.
06:30Ah.
06:31Number one, how much does a girl get?
06:33The girl gets $50.
06:35And number two, how much does the agency take out?
06:37I'm sorry.
06:38It's a good question, but the buzzer came.
06:40We go down to town.
06:41All right.
06:42Number one, what does the agency get for the same service?
06:45Well, the agency gets roughly half of the $50.
06:48And $50 is for six hours.
06:50That's not unlimited.
06:51Six hours.
06:53Number two, did you ever rent mails?
06:55Yes, we do.
06:56Yes, we do.
06:57That's also part of your service?
06:58Yes.
06:59Well, bird means girl in English slang, doesn't it?
07:02Yes, that's right.
07:03Number three, have you ever had female customers?
07:07Ah, yes, we've had female customers like, for instance, the last one was a German doctor
07:14who came over here to the United States who needed an interpreter to take her to some
07:21of the hospitals around Miami, Florida.
07:24Yeah, it makes sense.
07:26And that takes it to Peggy, please.
07:27Number one, how do people learn of your service?
07:29Do you advertise in the newspapers?
07:31Yes, we're in the personal column in the newspapers.
07:34Word of mouth, we have flyers at the hotels on Miami Beach, and we're also in the telephone
07:40directory.
07:41Well, that's enough.
07:42Mostly word of mouth.
07:44Number three, can your girls take shorthand and type?
07:46Yes, the girls can take shorthand.
07:48They can type.
07:49And are they ever rented out for that?
07:52Uh, no.
07:53No?
07:54No.
07:55Oh.
07:56Number two, how many girls are there in your stable?
07:58About 150.
07:59Come on.
08:00Come on.
08:01Well, that's what I mean.
08:04Number three, can you keep 150 girls making 50 bucks for six hours every day?
08:09I mean, can you really keep all those girls employed?
08:12The girls are very active and very much busy.
08:16There goes the bell.
08:18It is time now for you to mark your ballots, friends.
08:21And on the ballot, you mark a number one, or a number two, or a number three.
08:27And I think the audience knows that we pay 50 bucks for a wrong vote.
08:31We pay $500 if nobody picks the right gentleman, and Gene Rayburn starts.
08:36Well, I didn't hear any incorrect answers, or answers that didn't sound right to me, so
08:41I voted for number one, suntan.
08:44Yeah, he said he's, they all said Florida-based, let's go to Kitty.
08:47Well, they all have suntans.
08:49I voted for number one because he had a kind of professional jargon.
08:52Flyers in the hotels, and I don't know, he seems like a kind of a young man who would
08:56get an idea like this.
08:58Got a pair of ones, and...
09:00A little close to the knuckle.
09:02All right, Tom?
09:04I'd vote, you know, it never occurred to me to ask the girls if they might work for a
09:08guy like that.
09:09I voted for number one, too.
09:10I think that I would, I would, I would work for him if I were a lady.
09:14I want to tell you now, Peggy, are we going to go the whole hog here?
09:17Nothing personal, gentlemen, you understand when I say whole hog.
09:19Well, I think number one looks very Miami to me.
09:24And on that basis, looky there, the votes are all in.
09:28We're out on a limb like a bird.
09:30Well, the real Alan Budd.
09:33Please stand up, sir.
09:35And...
09:37Congratulations, gentlemen.
09:52500 bucks is what you got.
09:54Let's check your impostors out.
09:56Number one, sir, the big favorite.
09:58What is your real name?
09:59What do you think?
10:00My name is Charles Stein.
10:01I'm chairman of the board of Hardwick Companies Incorporated.
10:04And among other things, we are owners of Maxwell's Plum in New York.
10:08Great restaurant.
10:16Number two, sir.
10:17Tell us about yourself.
10:18My name is Steve Lohr.
10:20I am president of a travel agency in New York called Europe on Skis.
10:25Ah!
10:26Mr. But it's an ingenious idea.
10:35And I will personally vouch for the attractiveness of all three of those gals.
10:38I taught them.
10:39They're very nice ladies indeed.
10:40Thank you very much for being with us.
10:41Thank you very much for being with us.
10:53Now, next we have a gentleman with us who is perhaps the...
10:56I won't say perhaps.
10:57I'll say he is the foremost authority on a subject that is barely known of in this country.
11:03The subject of black genealogy.
11:05So stay tuned for a most significant to tell the truth story.
11:10This is our authority on black genealogy in America.
11:21Number one.
11:22What is your name, please?
11:24My name is Alex Haley.
11:26Number two.
11:28My name is Alex Haley.
11:31Number three.
11:32My name is Alex Haley.
11:34And here is the affidavit of Alex Haley.
11:37It's fascinating.
11:38It says,
11:39I, Alex Haley, am the only black American to have successfully traced his ancestry back nine generations to its African origin.
11:47My seven-year search included examining cargo lists from slave vessels as well as 19th century newspaper advertisements concerning slave auctions.
11:57Ultimately, my quest took me to a tiny village on the Gambia River in Africa.
12:02There, I reconstructed the life of one of my seventh generation ancestors from birth to his U.S. slavery.
12:11Actually, my story is much more than the story of one family.
12:15In effect, I have chartered the history of every black American.
12:18I say this because every one of us is directly descended from some African who was taken from his homeland, dragged to America, chained in the hold of a ship, and callously sold as a slave.
12:30Signed, Alex Haley.
12:32And we'll start the questioning, please, with Kitty Carlisle.
12:46Mr. Haley, number one, this is an extraordinary amount of work, I'm sure.
12:51Did the people who came from Gambia, did they have a sort of one family name, or did they all have different names?
12:59They had different names.
13:02Were there like clans?
13:03Was there a family name?
13:05Clan surnames.
13:06Clan surnames.
13:07And number two, is it true that not all the people who came from Africa were sold by the whites, some of their own people, and sometimes the Muslims sold them?
13:20That's true, especially on the East Coast.
13:23On the East Coast.
13:24On the West Coast, most of them were kidnapped and defeated.
13:27I see.
13:29Number three, when you finally found this seventh generation, what was he doing?
13:35What's his life then, the seventh generation ancestor in Gambia?
13:40What is his life?
13:41What is his life?
13:42What had he been doing there, yes.
13:44Was he a farmer?
13:45Was he...
13:46You mean his vocation?
13:48Yeah, what was he doing?
13:49Oh, well, he carved certain art pieces.
13:55Oh, I see.
13:56Number one, is that where many of the African art carvings come from?
14:01Well, carvings come from all across West Africa, really.
14:05I see.
14:06Thank you, Kitty, and we go down to town.
14:08Number two, just to pursue something that you said in answer to a question of Kitty's, who were the kidnappers?
14:16Was there a group that could be identified as those kidnappers on the West Coast?
14:20On the West Coast, most were Arabs.
14:22Arabs, they come into the colonies to raid the villages, take away suspects there.
14:27And then they found, number one, a ready market in wherever, any place that they needed cheap labor, right?
14:33Right, I happened to trace my ancestors, because he happened to be out one day cutting wood.
14:38And that's how it came about.
14:41Number one, I think it's a disgrace in the history of mankind.
14:46And would it be possible, number one, for other people perhaps to trace their ancestry?
14:52You mean other black people?
14:53Other black people in this country?
14:55If they had certain clues, it would be possible.
14:58See, the reason, one reason that I ask about the difficulty, number three, those cargo manifests were very often very skimpy, were they not, number three?
15:06Yes, they were.
15:07But, uh...
15:10And that takes us, please, to Peggy Cash.
15:13Uh, number one, were all slaves shipped to America?
15:17No, they were not.
15:18What other places were they shipped to?
15:19To the West Indies, to South America, predominantly Brazil.
15:23Uh-huh.
15:24Okay, now, number two, what was your family name in Africa?
15:27Kiki Tonga.
15:29Uh, Kiki Tonga?
15:30That's a cute name.
15:31Which you...
15:32Uh-oh.
15:33Uh, number three, is Gambia where you were from?
15:36The President's country of Gambia, is that where you're from?
15:39Yes.
15:40I see.
15:41Now, number one, what ship, what was the name of the ship that your ancestor came over here on?
15:45The Lord Ligonier.
15:47Lord Ligonier.
15:48Gee, number two, how long did it take you to research this?
15:51It must have just taken you your whole life.
15:52That's true.
15:53Uh, all together about seven years.
15:55Uh-huh.
15:56Number three, you gonna write a book about it?
15:57Yes.
15:58Have you written it?
15:59It's not out yet.
16:00It started, but it's not published yet.
16:01It's not finished.
16:02I see.
16:03Now, now, uh, number one, did...
16:06How did you know that he went out to cut wood one day and never came back?
16:09I mean, do they keep...
16:10I mean, I don't know, seven generations ago, mine would be drowning in some bog somewhere,
16:13but there's no record.
16:14How come...
16:15I mean, how come that they remembered that?
16:18Is there...
16:19It was part of oral history, a story which was told down across generations.
16:23Mm-hmm.
16:24I see.
16:25The day the race...
16:26And finally, we go to Gene Raver.
16:28Yes.
16:29Number two, you're a progenitor who was sold into slavery, came to this country, right?
16:34And where in this country?
16:36He landed in Annapolis, Virginia.
16:38And the records were easily accessible because the ships were logged in the Yalkyos in D.C.
16:42And number two, where are you from?
16:44Now, you mean?
16:45Yeah, I mean, where were you born and raised?
16:47In North Carolina.
16:48Yeah.
16:49Number one, how much, uh, was this fella sold for?
16:52Is that in the records anywhere?
16:54Not specifically, but in that state at that time, it would have been between $750 and $800.
17:00Number two, now, we've identified the Gandia River area, but we don't...
17:03What, what, what is that country presently?
17:05That's the Gambia River.
17:06The Gambia River.
17:07The Gambia.
17:08Right.
17:09Now, what is it, is it...
17:10It's Gambia.
17:11The country is Gambia, yes.
17:12And, and, uh, what are the people called there?
17:14The, uh...
17:15Well, you got the Mandingo tribe is the biggest, and the capital is Bathurst.
17:18Mm-hmm.
17:19And number two, where were your progenitors, uh, brought when they were...
17:23Were they also brought to Maryland?
17:24Yeah.
17:25Yes, and where were you...
17:26Yeah, and how about you?
17:27Where were you raised, number three?
17:28In Virginia.
17:29In Virginia?
17:30Yes.
17:31So they stayed there, in that area.
17:32All right, there goes the bell.
17:34No more conjecture.
17:35It's time for us to decide.
17:37Is it number one?
17:39Is it number two?
17:41Is it number three?
17:42I think we know what the penalties are.
17:44We'll skip that.
17:45Is everybody marked up?
17:46Beating.
17:47All right, so let's go to Kitty, please.
17:48Well, I think it's a remarkable story, and I voted for number one because it looks to
17:52me like he's a man who has enough, uh, continuity of thought and purpose to have pursued it for
17:58seven long years.
17:59So we gotta vote for a one, and what, Tom, you seem to be...
18:02No, I, I had no hesitation about voting for number one except that number two is a swell
18:08swindler.
18:09I would believe him no matter what he told me, right?
18:11That guy's all right.
18:12And we've got a pair of ones showing that.
18:15What are you gonna do, Patty?
18:16Oh, I'd buy a used car from number two, but I voted for number one.
18:19All right, I'm the only guy on this panel who's putting his money where his mouth is.
18:23All right, where's your mouth from?
18:24My mouth is at number two.
18:26He's the one.
18:27I don't know what's wrong with you folks.
18:28Boy, are you dumb today.
18:29Oh, I don't know.
18:30All right, the votes are all in.
18:32Will the real Alex Haley, please stand up, sir.
18:37There's Alex.
18:46Thank you, Mr. Haley.
18:49We'll be back to you in a moment for something truly remarkable, a great picture we want to
18:52show you.
18:53Number two, tell us about yourself.
18:54My name is Robert Cook.
18:55I'm on the advisory committee for the New York Bank for Savings.
19:04And number three, what about you?
19:06I'm Russ Douglas, and I'm a technical representative for Xerox Corporation.
19:09Oh, good.
19:10Now, Mr. Haley, you told us about how you had traced your family back to Africa, and then
19:22you went back there yourself, and were able to make a remarkable photograph.
19:27Paul, let's see the photograph first.
19:29Now, who is the old gentleman in the caftan?
19:34They would call it Dundico.
19:37Dundico?
19:38They would have that.
19:39Mm-hmm.
19:40The man's name is Keba Kanga Forfana.
19:42He is by profession a griot.
19:44Grio.
19:45It's spelled G-R-I-O-T.
19:46Uh-huh.
19:47These men are the sort of repositories of African history in their oral history way.
19:53They know histories of family clans back literally into centuries.
19:57Mm-hmm.
19:58And his, as I say, his name is Keba Kanga Forfana.
20:01And he, when he found that I had descended from the oldest of three brothers who were born
20:07between 1750 and 1760, this one I descended from having been brought to this country as
20:12a slave, he sent around people to other villages whom he knew was direct descendants of his
20:17blood brothers.
20:18Yes.
20:19And then was assembled, the people in this photograph, who are all direct descendants of three blood
20:24brothers.
20:25And so all of those people now in that photograph would be what to you?
20:29Literally, we are all six cousins.
20:30I'm the one with the necktie.
20:32I wish I'd been there for the family reunion.
20:35It must have been great.
20:36It must have been fun.
20:37Thank you, Mr. Haley.
20:38Thank you, gentlemen, also for being with us on the television show.
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20:58One thing I found very interesting in talking to Alex Haley backstage, and somebody asked one
21:03of the contestants as to whether or not he was going to write a book about it.
21:07He is writing a book, and it has already been sold to the movies.
21:10Oh, good.
21:11Hey.
21:12And it is going to be made into a motion picture, and it's to be directed, if I recall,
21:15by David Lean.
21:16Oh, lovely.
21:17David Lean.
21:18Yeah.
21:19Wow.
21:20That's traveling a pretty fast company and guarantees you a pretty first-class picture.
21:23Oh, yeah.
21:24Well, he does the best.
21:25And the amount of history that they'll be able to cover pictorially and historically
21:29should be really, really something.
21:31A tremendous job of research.
21:32Hey, uh, enjoy being with you.
21:34And, uh, we like it on days when we learn something.
21:36We hope you do, too.
21:37Take care.
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