Jean Abel

Gold something.

Barry Goldwater.

So, Allen decided that Yedda should run for president.

I never appeared because at the time I was still in my 20s and hardly a matron.

And Yetta was obviously older.

So we ended up using Alan's mother's picture when we had to produce something.

Here's Jean Izieta on WNBC in New York.

I mean, it was like, I don't know, 48, 50 feet long and 8 feet wide.

This is no small thing.

It had the cupola on top and the old classic looks of a caboose.

And he was actually, you know, taken seriously.

And that was what bothered Alan.

He always just wanted to get people engaged intellectually, to get them, to wake them up.

A kick in the intellect is what he used to say.

And they're talking to each other about, well, if we wait around, you know, until he dies, we can talk to the Mudo, you know, and get it cheaper.

It was basically that train of thinking.

And that's what sparked him to figure, well, what if I die?

Let's see what you do, you know.

He didn't keep me waiting forever.

I mean, knowing my husband as I did, I know he couldn't have been out skiing out in wherever it was supposed to be, some western state.