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John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor's Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993."
Carson entertained us for years. and years and years. He was the quintessential host. You always felt like he was a friend welcoming you into his home. Carson's personal live was not always smooth sailing. He had his human failings but I was reminded of something as I watched the show and that was his charitable work and then I remembered one of my friends who was a Science teacher here in Ames telling me about how he had written to Carson who then funded several telescopes for the High School. And as I recall it was to be done without ceremony anonymously.
"In 1981, Carson created the John W. Carson Foundation, dedicated to supporting children, education and health services. The Foundation continues to support charitable causes.
In November 2004, Carson announced a $5.3 million gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support the Hixson–Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Department of Theater Arts, which created the Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film. Another $5 million donation was announced by the estate of Carson to the University of Nebraska following his death., while a $1 million donation was announced on November 4, 2011, creating the "Johnny Carson Opportunity Scholarship Fund".[33]
Carson also donated to causes in his hometown of Norfolk, including the Carson Cancer Center at Faith Regional Health Services, the Elkhorn Valley Museum, and the Johnny Carson Theater at Norfolk Senior High School.
In August 2010, the charitable foundation created by Johnny Carson reported receiving $156 million from a personal trust established by the entertainer years prior to his January 2005 death. Carson's foundation was now by far the largest of the Hollywood charities."
You know I hear a lot about people who do things of a charitable nature and then spread it all over about the good they have done. Carson did his charitable work quietly without the hope of fee or reward. Just because he was able to help people. I admire him for that. Johnny Carson was "good people" -
Quotes
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
When turkeys mate they think of swans.
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
We're more effective than birth control pills.
People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
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I didn't know the specifics of his work but I did assume he did something for others, he just seemed that kind
he was the master of his genre, no one will ever match him
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