674     January 30, 1967 (Taped same day)
Betsy, Bill, Bess, Henry

Mr. X: “I escaped from a Communist prison camp…after being shot down over North Viet Nam”                 
Navy lieutenant Dieter Dengler made headlines back in July 1966 as the first captured pilot to escape from North Vietnam.  The German-born US pilot was shot down over Laos on February 1 and spent five months in the POW camp under brutal conditions that included torture.  He made his escape on June 29 along with six other prisoners.  After 23 days in the jungle, he was rescued by an Air Force helicopter on July 20.  He was the only one of the escapees to be rescued.  His harrowing story would become the subject of the 1997 Werner Herzog documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, as well as Herzog’s dramatized version of the story, Rescue Dawn (2006).   

Lee Taylor from Mexico City, Mexico: “My son was born in a car – I delivered him…I was born in a car too” and his father, Jack D. Taylor from Pasadena, Texas: “I delivered him”                 
The elder Taylor speaks proudly of his twelve children and 36 grandchildren, most of whom were presumably not born in an automobile.   

Special guest Soupy Sales brings baby and childhood pictures of famous people for the panel to identify.  The featured stars are Elizabeth Taylor, Phyllis Diller, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Jayne Meadows and Joan Crawford.  See also E619 .