And that's the back-story behind why Fess Parker n

And that's the back-story behind why Fess Parker never depicted the rise of Davy Crocket to U.S. Senator and then VP of the U.S.

Parker's own career was more fortuitous. Irony just dripping from where he was raised. LOL!

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Fess Parker was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised on a farm in Tom Green County near San Angelo.[4] He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in the latter part of World War II,[5][6] hoping to become a pilot.

He was turned down because he was too tall at 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m).[7] He then tried to become a radioman gunner, but he was found too big to fit comfortably into the rear cockpit.

He was finally transferred to the Marine Corps as a radio operator and shipped out for the South Pacific shortly before the atom bomb ended the war.[7]

Discharged in 1946, he enrolled at Hardin-Simmons University on the GI Bill. After an automobile collision, he was stabbed in the neck by the other driver during an argument.[7]

Good thing it wasn't a Bowie knife. LOL!

He was an active member of the H-SU Players Club and transferred to the University of Texas in 1947 as a history major and continued to be active in drama. Parker graduated from UT in 1950 with a degree in history.

He had been initiated into the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Having one year remaining on his GI Bill, he studied drama at the University of Southern California, where he studied for a master's degree in theater history.[1][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fess_Parker

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