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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and thanks for checking out this episode of Into the Killing. |
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0:17.0 | For this week's episode, we're going back to September, 1966. September 4th, 1966 was the first day that Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon broadcasted. |
0:28.6 | Jerry Lewis rose to fame as part of the duo, Martin and Lewis, with the King of Cool, Dean Martin. |
0:34.6 | They made 16 films together between 1949 and 1956. |
0:39.3 | Martin went on to have his own solo career and he was a member of the famed rap hack. |
0:44.0 | Jerry Lewis continued to star in his own films, most notably the Knight Professor in 1963. |
0:50.1 | In the early 1950s, Lewis was asked to host a telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. |
0:56.0 | At the time, there was not much public awareness about muscular dystrophy. |
1:00.0 | According to the Mayo Clinic, muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. |
1:08.0 | Lewis agreed to help, and he and Martin hosted a telethon. |
1:12.5 | Lewis bradically hosted telethons for the Muscular Distifree Association over the next decade. |
1:18.3 | Then, on September 4, 1966, Lewis launched the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, |
1:24.6 | which aired on WN-EW TV. |
1:29.6 | It raised just over a million dollars. |
1:35.4 | Accounting for inflation, that is about $9.5 million in early 2024. |
1:39.9 | Lewis hosted the telethon for 44 years and retired in 2010. |
1:44.0 | During those 44 years, he had famous guests appear on the telethon, including Frank Sinatra, Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, and many more. |
1:49.0 | One of the most memorable moments happened in 1976 when Frank Sinatra brought out Lewis's former partner, Dean Martin. |
1:57.0 | Lewis and Martin had not seen each other in over a decade. |
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