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Adam Graham.

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Facebook.com slash radio detectives. We begin our celebration of the 70th anniversary of yours truly Johnny Dollar. It's also the start of our listener support campaign, though we'll

probably play to that a bit less this week than we normally would, so we can focus more on

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Now, during the course of this week, we'll be sharing interview with John C. Abbott,

author of the Who Is Johnny Dollar matter?

We will go ahead and play the first portion of that interview with the rest of the interview being played after each program this week.

So let's go ahead and we'll take a listen.

All right. Well, we have John Abbott with us.

He is the author of the Who is Johnny Dollar Matter, which is now in its second edition in two volumes.

So could you tell me what made you decide to write a nearly 1,400-page book in two volumes about yours truly Johnny Dollar?

Well, originally, I was just going to write a biographical piece about the character, Johnny Dollar.

And this was way back in 1999,

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