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Article: Broadcast pioneer once picked cotton: ONLY IN OKLAHOMA.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2007
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Byline: Gene Curtis
Jan. 23--"I've had one of the most interesting lives any human being ever had," Jimmy Leake told an interviewer in 1979. "And I've enjoyed myself," he added. The man who picked cotton as a child in the 1920s became a millionaire, a broadcasting pioneer and an automobile enthusiast. Along the way, James Chowning Leake worked at a variety of part-time jobs -- in restaurants, a laundry, service stations and as a truck driver. And he shared his time with a wide array of public service commissions, organizations, associations and civic clubs. The obituary after his July 3, 2001, death at the age of 85 said he "had been involved in every ...