IN MEMORIAM : James Wiles, Legal Advisor to our show, CBS News Correspondent Phil Jones, and Legendary T.V. Talk Show Host Phil Donahue (and his amazing love affair with Marlo Thomas)

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In this special edition of our podcast we look back in Memoriam to three people who passed away in August of 2024.
They are our podcasts legal advisor, James Wiles, a retired lawyer who lived here in Myrtle Beach and was active in Republican Party Politics, working on several campaigns for Horry County Council, Myrtle Beach City Council, and Myrtle Beach Mayor, he also helped in a couple of congressional Races and he worked on the Presidential Campaign of Rick Santorum. He later became an advisor to this podcast, starting around our 30th episode and really gave us solid advice as we dealt with the series on Former President Richard Nixon. He was a good friend and will be missed.
When we were running our series on Richard Nixon we often heard the voice of CBS Newsman Phil Jones, he covered the Watergate story and then seven more Presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush before retiring in the early 2000s He passed away in late August at the age of 87.
Finally, we look back at television talk show pioneer, Phil Donahue. He made our show for two very personal stories to us at this podcast. He had Rita Jenrette on his show and it was then , in prime time that our Congressman called in and made national news. It was an episode everyone in Myrtle Beach in that era always remembered.
Then there is a love story like no other. When Phil Donahue met Marlo Thomas on his television show and it was love at first sight and on live television. Everyone watching could see the chemistry on full display. We should all be so lucky. They were married for 44 years and there was just as much chemistry between them in their last appearance on TV as there was in their first. It is one of our hosts favorite stories to retell. So, we let him tell it here on this episode again.
Rest in Peace, James Wiles, Phil Jones, and Phil Donahue
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Chapters

1. Archives 20 years of The Phil Donahue Show (00:00:00)

2. Longtime CBS News man Phil Jones has died - CBS Nightly News (00:02:26)

3. Raw Audio voicemail left by Kelly Campaign Jim Wiles (00:04:04)

4. Music Intro (00:05:31)

5. Host Randal Wallace welcomes you to the show and talks about the three figures we are looking abck at in the episode, then he talks about Jim Wiles, legal advisor to our podcast (00:05:58)

6. James Wiles addresses the Myrtle Beach Carolina Patriots - Fall of 2012 (00:09:19)

7. Host Randal Wallace talks about Jim Wiles (00:17:04)

8. Face the Nation looks back at Longtime CBS News man Phil Jones (00:17:48)

9. CBS News Coverage of President Richard Nixon leaving the White House on the day he resigned, covered by Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Phil Jones (00:18:12)

10. [Ad] The Middle American (00:18:36)

11. (Cont.) CBS News Coverage of President Richard Nixon leaving the White House on the day he resigned, covered by Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Phil Jones (00:19:20)

12. Host Randal Wallace introduces Phil Jones and the coming reports (00:19:42)

13. Segment from Phil Jones 2915 MGF Talk on the Presidents he covered (00:21:34)

14. Sam Donaldson and Phil Jones unite to fight cancer 50 plus Report (00:29:02)

15. From the Archives Senate Passes bill to make Martin Luther King Jr Day a Federal Holliday - CBS News (00:35:19)

16. A Look Back on the life and legacy of Television Icon Phil Donahue - NBC Today Show (00:36:47)

17. Host Randal Wallace talks about Phil Donahue and why we are honoring him on our show, then tells the John and Rita Jenrette story, and then he discusses the love affair between Donahue and Marlo Thomas, one of our hosts favorite stories to tell (00:41:02)

18. Marlo Thomas meeting Phil Donahue on the Donahue program - Donahue 1977 (00:45:11)

19. Host Randal Wallace talks about how much he loves that story and has always used it as the example of love hitting you (00:46:02)

20. Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas "Love Story" Through the years - Entertainment Tonight (00:46:50)

21. Marlo Thomas talks about falling in Love on his show Part 2 interview show (00:50:11)

22. Phil Donahue on Marlo Thomas - Emmy TV Legends Television Museum interview (00:54:30)

23. Moment of silence in honor of Phil Donahue, Phil Jones and Jim Wiles (00:59:47)

24. Closing segment from the Donahue Show the episode where Phil Donahue meets Marlo Thomas (00:59:56)

25. Closing music (01:00:21)