1998 Gene Autry – US singer and actor who was in over 100 westerns, and who was known as the Singing Cowboy (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, You are My Sunshine, Back in the Saddle Again) He was a part owner of the Los Angeles Angels (later the California and Anaheim Angels) He purchased TV station KTLA for $12 million in 1964 and sold it in 1982 for $245 million. There is a Gene Autry museum in Los Angeles. He died three days after his 91st birthday Now, there was a man who knew how to make a dollar or two.
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