Buckley Carlson
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1,967 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Buckley Carlson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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uh read books extensively from a young age always engaged in serious adventure was a total non-conformist and totally self-educated totally self-educated uh went to i think one semester of high school uh no got kicked out of three separate high schools and he was wild and then ended up enrolling himself in the naval academy prep school and
was there, and then went to Ole Miss for a semester when James Meredith was there and all those riots, and then left, and then went, as so many adventurous individuals did, went to California at, I think, 19, became a copy boy for the LA Times, showed up in their office and said,
I'm here, yes.
And then was an independent journalist, although had worked for ABC, worked for ABC, worked for NBC, was eventually in television and was a media guy for...
An investigative reporter for most of his career.
And then he joined the administration of Reagan and ran the Voice of America during the Cold War.
It was...
it was enormous actually.
And my, it was populated exclusively by every kind of book.
My, all my father's books, he'd read every single one of them, not all completion, but his, his passions were endless.
He knew he investigated everything and, and read about everything.
So it was a really an amazing compilation, his library.
Um,
And he taught us to read at a young age and was constantly giving us adult books and taking us with him on stories that he did.
Traveled around with him quite a bit, actually.
Yes, but his library was a particular sanctuary.
And that house that we were growing up in and then every subsequent house he had...
I think 15 or 17,000 books in his library when he died.
My brother's gone through all of them and recreated a library in his honor.
Yes, absolutely.
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