So today we have another round of memories about Walt Disney.

In the late 1960s, a couple of years after Walt's passing,

Roy Disney asked that members of the Disney organization

write down their memories about Walt for a forthcoming biography

that the studio and the Disney family had commissioned. But that biography was never published.

The family then hired another writer to develop a book-length biography, but that book as well was

also never published. The company and family wouldn't approve a biography until the third author pinned

his attempt. That version was called Walt Disney and American Original by Bob Thomas. But during those

10 years between the first attempt at a biography and then the book that was finally published.

These memories of Walt went missing.

A lot of things changed inside the company during those 10 years, including the death of

Roy Disney.

And by the time we get up to the mid-1970s, I don't think anyone was tracking the material

that had been gathered for that first unpublished book.

None of these stories were included in the finished biography by Bob Thomas.

But today, we'll look at another set of those lost memories.

As with the previous two volumes in the series, you are about to hear some memories that

have been more or less locked away for a half century.

Here we go. Our first story today comes from Bob Jackson. Jackson is probably best known in Disney

circles for helping to oversee the Mineral King ski resort that Walt wanted

to build in the mid to late 60s, and we'll actually get to a Mineral King story later today.

But when Bob Jackson first arrived at Disney in 1963, he was a publicity manager who also

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