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- Dave Dedrick was a radio personality and television pioneer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was best remembered for his four decades as host on the long-running children's program, "Captain 11."
David Hugo Dedrick was born to parents, Daniel and Sylvia (Marie) Dedrick, in Marshalltown, Iowa. He moved with his family to Fort Dodge, Iowa before finally settling in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dedrick was only fifteen years old when he started his long career in broadcasting, working for KSOO and KELO radio when he was a junior and senior at Washington High School. After graduation, Dedrick spent four years serving with the U.S. Marine Corp before being honorably discharged. Dedrick married MarJean Schuknecht and spent eighteen months attending Augustana College before being called to active duty with the Marine Reserves during the Korean Conflict.
Dave Dedrick's voice was the first to be heard on KELO-TV during the station's inaugural broadcast on May 19, 1953. He spent the next forty-four years serving as KELO-TV's weather man. After winning a coin toss, Dedrick became the host of the children's television program, "Captain 11," which ran from 1955 to 1996. After his retirement on December 30, 1996, Dave Dedrick received many awards and honors for his work in broadcasting. - George McGovern, one of the leading liberals in U.S. politics, was born in a Republican household in a small South Dakota town. His family had some struggles during the Great Depression, but they were able to make ends meet. The young, idealistic man joined the Air Force during World War II and became a bomber pilot. He served with great bravery, flying missions over North Africa and Italy, bombing German military targets, and won citation for his duty. Upon returning home, he graduated from college and became a college teacher, teaching history. Up to that point, he had been relatively non-political, as had his parents. That changed in 1952, when he heard a speech by the Democratic nominee, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, and was so inspired by it that he volunteered for the Stevenson campaign. Stevenson lost to retired General Dwight D. Eisenhower, but McGovern remained active in politics, becoming Chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party. Democrats were very much the minority in the state, but McGovern pursued his duties with great zeal, and in 1956 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in an upset, helped by growing dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower administration in the rural Midwest. He was reelected in 1958 and in 1960, was an enthusiastic backer of Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. That same year, McGovern took a gamble by running against Republican U.S. Senator Karl Mundt, who had first been elected in 1948. Although he ran well ahead of what Democrats usually did in the state, he fell short, as Mundt won by a 52% to 48% margin. In 1961, Kennedy appointed McGovern Director of the Food For Peace program, and McGovern was greatly affected by his service in this capacity.
In 1962, McGovern ran for the U.S. Senate again (each state has two U.S. Senators), this time in an open race. He was considered the underdog against Republican Governor Joe Bottum, but managed to win by 597 votes, one of the closest U.S. Senate races in state history. He immediately became one of the Senate's most liberal members, enthusiastically supporting the domestic policies of Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. His major accomplishment was creation of the Food Stamp program, which was to provide Federal food assistance to impoverished people. But he became increasingly focused on overseas and military affairs. He became an opponent of the growing American involvement in Vietnam and opposed maintaining a large military. In 1968, he was a leading supporter of Robert F. Kennedy and was horrified by the latter's assassination. He was also appalled by the Chicago Police Force's rough treatment of anti-war protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that same year. He was reelected easily that year, winning 57% of the vote. After Richard Nixon took office, McGovern quickly became a proponent of immediate withdraw of all military forces form Vietnam. In 1969, he chaired the commission which instituted reforming the way the Democratic Party nominated its Presidential candidates, dramatically reducing the role of party leaders and political insiders.
In 1972, McGovern launched a campaign for President. He was given little chance of winning his party's nomination, which seemed to be united around U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. However, Muskie's campaign foundered and McGovern ran a close second to Muskie in the Presidential primary in New Hampshire. Helped by his campaign manager, Gary Hart (later a Senator and Presidential candidate himself), McGovern won several other primaries and the nomination. His campaign theme was "America, come home." His main platform, aside from withdraw from Vietnam, was a 37% reduction in defense spending and a guaranteed minimal income for all Americans. At the convention in Miami, he initially won praise for nominating U.S. Senator 'Thomas Eagleton' of Missouri as his running mate. But his campaign was rocked when it was revealed that Eagleston had been treated for depression in a psychiatric ward many years before. McGovern initially claimed that he was "1000 percent" behind Eagleston, but later his campaign staff persuaded Eagleston to drop out of contention. This made McGovern look bad to his most idealistic supporters and haunted him throughout the campaign. Ultimately, former Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver replaced Eagleston as his running mate, but the damage was done. Throughout the campaign, he was perceived by the public as a well-meaning but fuzzy minded radical leftist. Taking advantage of McGovern's support for amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers, decriminalizing abortion, and ending Federal drug laws (leaving them to the individual states), Vice President Spiro Agnew labeled McGovern the candidate of "amnesty, abortion, and acid," and the label stuck. The Nixon campaign successfully portrayed McGovern as a pacifist and socialist who would endanger national security, wreck the economy, and bankrupt the government. In the election, McGovern lost overwhelmingly. Nixon out-polled him by 61% to 37%, with a plurality of 18 million votes, a record that has yet to be broken. The only state McGovern won was Massachusetts. His only consolation was that a friend and political ally, Congressman James Abourezk, was elected to the South Dakota's other U.S. Senator.
Following the loss, McGovern returned to his Senate duties. Following Nixon's resignation in disgrace in the wake of the Watergate scandal in 1974, he seemed to have been vindicated in his attacks on Nixon's ethics. However, later that year, he had a surprisingly difficult reelection bid, winning by less than expected against a former Vietnam War prisoner, who felt that McGovern had prolonged his captivity. There were many Demcorats elected that year, and McGovern worked closely with them to cut defense spending and reign in intelligence agencies. He also worked to expand government benefits. He was encouraged when Democrats won the White House with the narrow election of former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. But his friend and ally Abourezk was forced to retire in the face of impending defeat in 1978 and polls indicated that McGovern was losing support there, as well. In 1980, McGovern was challenged for reelection by Republican Congressman James Abdnor. While campaigning that year, McGovern ran into two women who angrily complained about his support for defense cuts, then bought some groceries with food stamps. He later remarked that he knew he wouldn't be reelected at that moment. He was right. On election day, Abdnor defeated McGovern by a landslide.
Following his departure from elective office, he was a professor at the University of New Orleans. In 1984, he made a whimsical, late-entering candidacy for President, and narrowly won the primary in Massachusetts, but as expected, lost the nomination to former Vice President Walter Mondale. Also a candidate, and a more successful one, was his former campaign manager, Gary Hart, who won several primaries, although losing the nomination to Mondale. That year, however, then President Ronald Reagan, whose policies McGovern fervently opposed, was reelected by a landslide, nearly as large as Nixon's 1972 margin. For many years, he largely stayed out for the limelight. He went into the motel business, but the business ultimately foundered and he was forced to fold. McGovern later admitted in late 1990, "I wish I had had a better sense of what it took to [meet a payroll] when I was in Washington." In 1991, he surprised nearly everyone when he supported President George Bush's campaign to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, which culminated in The Persian Gulf War. McGovern defended this by claiming that Hussein was a great threat to the entire region. In 1994, he was hit with personal tragedy when one of his daughters, Teresa, died of exposure while intoxicated. She had been an alcoholic for many years who had been unable to overcome the addiction. McGovern became involved in helping the relatives of alcoholics. In 1998, President Bill Clinton as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies, a post he held until 2001.
In more recent years, he has become an advocate for the withdraw of U.S. troops from Iraq. - Arnie Stenseth was born on 2 June 1937 in Tyler, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Twin Peaks (1990), Twin Peaks (1989) and Police Quest: SWAT 2 (1998). He died on 7 February 2020 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Jan Aichele was born on 21 April 1936 in McClusky, North Dakota, USA. He died on 4 October 2014 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Clayton Big Eagle was born on 29 April 1934 in Crow Creek, South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Dances with Wolves (1990). He died on 14 December 2007 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Ellen Southbrook was born on 15 May 1894 in Beresford, South Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for The Philco Television Playhouse (1948). She died on 19 January 1991 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- White Eagle was born on 25 May 1956 in North Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (1991) and The Hour of Power (1970). He died on 6 July 1995 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Larry Smith was born on 23 April 1949 in Sigourney, Iowa, USA. He died on 25 June 2020 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
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James Abourezk was born on 24 February 1931 in Wood, South Dakota, USA. He is known for The Broken Chain (1993), Crazy Horse (1996) and One Bright Shining Moment (2005). He was married to Sanaa Dieb, Margaret Bethea and Mary Ann Houlton. He died on 24 February 2023 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.- Art Department
Chris Browne was born on 10 May 1952 in the USA. He is known for The Drew Carey Show (1995) and The Folks Behind the Funnies (2018). He died on 5 February 2023 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.- Jim King was born on 20 December 1932 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA. He died on 7 April 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- William Janklow was born on 13 September 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Mary Dean Thom. He died on 12 January 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Donn Clendenon was born on 15 July 1935 in Neosho, Missouri, USA. He was married to Anne, Joan Holloway and Deanna. He died on 17 September 2005 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Olive Delfs was born on 29 June 1910 in Tripp County, South Dakota, USA. She was married to Harry Hans Delfs. She died on 16 November 1990 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
- Marlys Thomas was born in 1942 in the USA. She died in 2012 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.