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[Music] ladies and gentlemen I'm sure that you're familiar with true magazine which in written form presents just as we do with films the real Adventures of real people our guest tonight is the editor of true magazine mr. Douglas Kennedy mr. Kennedy takes us on his own personal Safari to Africa to search for and find Africa's ugly pre-madonna the rhinoceros specifically a world's record rhino horn this mammoth on a rampage has been known to destroy small native villages and even to derail a train join us now for Rhino bone journey your television passport to the exciting colorful world of a begin tonight's true story adventure is Jack Douglas the encyclopaedia defines the rhinoceros as a creature with little intelligence and bad temper and hunters returning from a safari in Africa will invariably say that the Rhino is one of the stubbornest most cantankerous and downright meanest beasts in the world now these ponderous denizens second largest land animal on earth will for no apparent reason go into a mad charge hurling themselves against anything even momentarily considered an enemy this dangerous animal was the lure which took our guest tonight to the Dark Continent a colorful man with a colorful background expert on the Rhino it's my sincere pleasure to introduce the editor of true magazine mr. Douglas Kennedy of New York City hi editor welcome to our series thank you very much jack it's pleasure to be here it's our pleasure sir tell us about true magazines specifically about your association with us fine publication well Jack I've been with true for about five years now you know it's the largest selling man's magazine in the world and gee I think it's the world's best job - when you say large just how big would you give our audience an idea well it's two and a half million circulation right now that's getting bigger every day all right now mr. Kennedy why Ryan why why go all the way to Africa to get a record rhino horn why did it mean so much to you well two reasons first for the same reason that a mountaineer goes climbing because it's there and secondly because it's the most dangerous animal in the world and I wanted to do it the hard way now mr. Kennedy how do we determine a record size of a rhino it's the length of the horn jack it's uh well when you see this when you see a real whopper the rhinos are found all over Central Africa west and south of Nairobi let's start with Nairobi where we have landed by plane having flown in from New York Nairobi is a unique city surrounded by game preserves heavy Moorish influence here many Muslims live in Nairobi we take off from this modern restaurant there's Bob Halmi who's my partner on this trip and the photographer for the magazine the last drink of soda pop and we're off for Rhino and come with me we meet the lorry with our gear and native helpers outside of town we have two cars and the one lorry in our group we're after a world-record rhino which has been spotted near Mattawa whoa it's in Africa you're liable to run into all sorts of roadblocks the roads are teeming with game and here we run into a little zebra trouble he likes the road about as well as we do we've just stand by until he gets out of our way mr. Kennedy are you able to go out into these preserves and away from Nairobi without government permission do you have to take along experienced guides well Jack do you have to get clearance to go anywhere in British Africa they're very particular and careful about their game control and rightly so I believe heading south on a Masai cattle track and the going gets a little rougher really heavy-duty trucks that we're driving here to go across country this way there are more kinds of antelope in Africa than in any other part of the world there must be at least 50 varieties at least four in that herd you're looking at Thompson's gazelle wildebeest are two beasts and big dick amazingly graceful animals and fast they've got to be they are prey of the lion and their only defense is to outrun him the lion can beat the gazelle over a short spirit but the Gazelle can outrun him over a distance any sudden noise sends them scampering off they're not gonna wait around to make sure are they they are very very touchy bob has spotted some animals that aren't so touchy a whole pride of lion and they are not scared of man or beast don't worry about him jack he's on the roof of the car and our white hunter is directly below him with guns these are young males a whole dozen of all part of probably two families and they're sort of on the prowl but you notice their bellies are a little full he's eyeing a hartebeest now and starts after her the hartebeest darts out she's not taking any chances the lion says oh well I had a good breakfast anyway they obviously had just eaten their fill mr. Kennedy had many true stories come across your desk of a lion fighting an elephant taking on an elephant jack if it's happened we'd like to publish it but all the animals in Africa have a great deal of respect for each other for instance the wildebeest will mix in with other animals and they will stay clear of each other and they will stay clear of Bob here too this particular animal roams Africa like the Buffalo used to in our great plains in America these animals the wildebeest or the canoe free crossword puzzle fans absolutely useless we closed in on them to check the number of varieties there to find new antelope and zebra running together even Rhino whoa oh there he comes there's a rhino he's the one animal that left that herd to charges just to drive us away we're setting up our first camp under the shade of that big acacia tree Bob is sort of a traffic director at this particular point right and the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro in the background is just tremendous scenery here and unlike Hemingway's early days in Africa it's not quite as rugged as it used to be we got our laundry done every day our washing and they even ironed my BVDs I'd never get service like that in New York we even have a hot bath from water heated in the camp fire Bob looked altogether too comfortable I just couldn't resist this with cold water felis it felt good while bob is a good sport this food that we got on this particular trip was as good as any I've ever eaten this native chef had been on safaris for 20 years and he knew how to bake bread well such as mother used to make 50 years ago he there puts it in the oven and right on the hot coals I tell you that was good eating [Music] and I had bagged what meat we needed to eat and the native boys cure it in the Sun wonderful duck shooting here bigger than our Mallard and teal in America breads bake now great eating we sat down and pretty luxurious comfort here a nice box now radio here I am the biggest Pig on the trip fifty you know keep my strength up dude [Music] now this is a gag Nile perch can be found in the nearby rivers and Bob went down to fish with the rod we bought from Nairobi he casts weights and looks around to cross the streams directly across a cape buffalo had come down to drink he took one look and lit out for the bush Bob raced right into camp I told Bob to run fast here to make it look good along with us on the trip we had a little pet rhesus monkey named Mickey and like all babies that they sometimes want to eat and sometimes I don't but unlike most babies this one travelled well we like to let him believe that he was actually steering the car and he was good fun well we're after rhino and he found one right here a remarkable animal only animal and nature that will attack without provocation and we treated very carefully I'm standing there back guarding our white hunter and Bob with a gun the Rhino sees very poorly he can only see things in motion that's probably why he's been known to charge anything he just doesn't see exactly what it is that he's charging but he does have marvelous hearing he can hear a twig break a hundred yards away from him in any direction and he has a sharp sense of smell the skin is almost two inches thick the baby Rhino stays with its mother until it's two years old and it takes off on its own they eat thorn bushes they're strict vegetarians they feed mostly at night and travel as much as twenty five miles a night grazing they can go for days without water getting all they need from the thorn bushes here at Namanga the game warden says that a rogue rhino is on the rampage he is located about a hundred miles south of us toward Arusha this rogue Rhino has been wounded and had driven some Maasai people from their boma he had to be brought down and our party was asked to do the job we agreed and we have to get our guns very very carefully taken care of every day we clean them morning and night they're called elephant guns look at the size of those bullets 4:58 and we're now in this masai village that has been deserted this Rhino has driven these people out in fact he's killed a couple of their cattle there's a warden back of us there he went along with us on a trip the boys have found a place for that Rhino just went charging right into it Hut they're one of the Masai Hut and they're on the track now they've got it that direction we set out on foot this time from here on it's all hard work and [Music] we set out one gun in the back I'm gonna tail in Charlie there you always carry a gun in the front and a gun and back you're always prepared in Africa they're the fresh rhino track and we know it's the one we're after he's a loner around here you have to make your approach on an animal like this very carefully look at the size of that track that's about 12 inches remember I told you you smell is very acute and as hearing as acute aljex the wind we want the wind to blow from him toward us not vice-versa we're going right through a Rhino tunnel here now those wait a bit pushes those thorn bushes are really brutal they could tear your skin and that's actually what the Rhino eats maybe that's why he's so rambunctious [Music] there he is there he is ugly brute mama warns us to be quiet now that's a very mean animal Jack and he has done a lot of damage and it's really up to us to get rid of him he's heading right toward us the killing shot on a rhino is right in the forehead you can't make a heart shot and how doesn't want to miss and he doesn't want to take any chances and here he comes look at that kick on that gun hmm well we've got in our white hunter here is a very famous man in Africa although he happens to be an American he's one of two that belong to this very exclusive club after an animal is down particularly one this dangerous you really approach very warily the size of that horn 20 inches Bob points out the bullet holes right where I wanted them the robe would rampage no more still heading after our world record right now we're looking for the biggest horn in the world Thank You mr. Kennedy in a moment part 2 of your true story adventure on route south we came into one of the most astonishing spectacles I had ever seen I've seen forest fires in this country but out here everything blows up all of a sudden it's just like an explosion on this great veld and we decided to head right into it you can see where maybe being a little foolhardy but golly it was just irresistible to come down to see this thing I thought there might be a story in the magazine for it we get here a little close those flames incidentally are 50 feet high when they just come at you this tremendous roar we tried to measure the speed of this fire we figured it was coming at us at about 20 miles an hour absolutely under no control at all well that's just an inferno has lived well I just covered the whole horizon jack and here his brother a sad spectacle a whole herd of zebra just completely bewildered they don't know which way to go and of course nothing panics an animal more than far as you know it was really a very sad sight now this wildebeest it's hard to believe an animal like that could go 50 miles an hour but that's what we clocked him at there's a whole herd of stampeding Buffalo and at this particular juncture we decided we'd better get out of there too because it was getting a little too hot for us well we continue on our way Jack out of the area where we've gotten our rogue rhino but enroute as you well know Africa offers many many diversions we roll into our okama village they're wonderful carefree happy people they dance all day long there's the chief with a drum there he wears dark glasses to that sort of a sign of honor I guess the will come bizarre one of the most vivid tribes in Africa for them the dance is a big combination it's part sport part religion part relaxation this dance for them it takes the place of rock and roll golf tennis and even church this particular dance is actually a fertility ceremony they're really praying to have strong healthy children [Music] we came across another strange type Africa's just so full of these fascinating sight [Music] and here's Bob my intrepid photographer shoes and socks and halt heading right out into Lake Manyara and in just a minute you'll see another amazing spectacle of Africa this is the traveling season for these flamingos thousands and thousands of flamingos just filling the sky actually the game count on these things goes up into the millions it may seem hard to believe but millions of birds here when you find water you may find elephant nearby though the Rhino needs little water the elephant must have lots of it to bathe in and to survive his skin will dry and crack unless he bathes regularly which they do by instinct the elephant is in the sense of blood brother of the Rhino they're the two biggest animals left and Bob can't resist getting up close here I'm covering him but if they ever decided to come at us believe me whatever cover I could supply would be sort of wasted the elephant is a formidable and dangerous animal he will charge you just like the Rhino but with one important difference you have to provoke him obviously we'd provoked this big Tusker and we are charged we move out of there but fast the courageous cowards Club has just departed well Jack discretion is often the better part of valor it certainly is sometimes now we ran into here a man named Bill Taylor this is how he makes his living he catches animals for zoos in this particular day he was out after giraffe catching a giraffe is no mean feat as you'll see in just a minute you have to get a noose on the end of a long pole and you have to chase that crazed bull and very fast animal across the plains you pick out a young one and you just cut loose and here we go 40 miles an hour to get young giraffe is about a year and a half old and built is a very thoughtful and careful game catcher he decided that we had run this animal a little too hard and he might be injured particularly in captivity and the boy with a pole there is trying to unloosen the news we finally did and then an astonishing thing happened this animal became enamored of us we couldn't get rid of him Taylor just tried to drive him away and he just stood there finally somebody got the bright idea remarkable what a horn sound will do to drive animals away you can talk to him you can scream at him but the horn finally sent him away how does an ostrich chase on the other hand was considerably more successful and even faster this was almost at 60 miles an hour that noose loosens very quickly you don't want to injure the animal and you put the blindfold on him so he won't be panicked and you stay very very clear though that's tape of the big fellow in the foreground uh-huh you stay clear of those long feet because they can really kick but see how gently they handle it this group of pictures we sent to an advertising friend of ours back to New York and it appeared in that advertisement there we're coming in now jack to the Masai village near where this record rhino was found these Maasai are astonishing people the British have never been able to subjugate them in the way they have other tribes they haven't really tried to they just never made peace with the British and with those Spears there they actually go out and hunt lion they use it less as throwing more as defence surely when a rhino charges or an lion charges they just put the other end into the ground Bob makes friends with his camera and I used to be an old javelin thrower in college and I your rusty editor you know that spear is about eight times as heavy as a javelin now we've been told at about ten miles down the line four days ago this big record rhino was spotted and we have to get out on foot here protection from the car and starts talking mom you are a chief tracker there was a remarkable man he could follow anything and mom who suspects that right around the corner there well Bob is just about on it right now there it's a she there she is with a feeding Toto Toto is a term for any small animal in Africa any child animal and Bob is now pretty much in seventh heaven look at the size of that horn Jack it's really an astonishing sight that's at least twice as big as any that you've seen previously and wait'll she turns around now you've got a breeze isn't that amazing we measured later by photographic means and well that one was fifty inches and here's a little 3-inch one on the toe toe 50 inches jack that's about ten inches longer than the world record actually the female Rhino grows a bigger horn than the male probably because she doesn't attack as many things as she is getting a little morsel of that tough thorn bush that she needs well Jack we've gotten the pictures we want and we head back home back to New York back to the magazine business but we have two really great stories a rogue Rhino that we had to kill and the record rhino that we captured on film [Music] thank you very much mr. Kennedy we mentioned earlier that the Rhino has a bad temper he's cantankerous and yet here on our own program series we've had at least several films in which we have seen people I recall the young man who plays Tarzan for example who actually wrote a rhino and this was in Africa now how do you explain this contrast between the two stories we've been getting well Jack I've done a little rhino riding myself the fellow you saw there that was the game catcher he has a tame baby one at home and if you catch them young enough like any animal will they become very affectionate and this fellow is very good in other words they can be domesticated but until their domesticated look out is that it Roger let's leave rhinos now and get back to a question as perhaps purely selfish to our program I know you're familiar with it you've appeared with us now we've had I think as our audience will agree many interesting people who have interesting true stories and now editor how would they go about getting the written stories to true magazine are you interested what do they have to do jack in the trade I'm known as available Doug we like to have true stories of interest to men and of course a great many of people who have appeared on your program have the kind of stories we're looking for just send them to me I'm in the telephone book or by mail or call me up I know that you aren't true stories your your magazine title stands for that obviously but is the emphasis on a an unusual ending is it on action is it on something dramatic what we like completed stories stories with beginnings middles and ends in other words if a fellow goes treasure hunting and he has some exciting adventures all along the way that's well and good but if he doesn't find treasure we don't want it I see mr. Kennedy we're going to remember that as we meet more and more interesting people like yourself on our programs I hope you won't mind if we say you contact available Doug Kennedy he'd like to have your story will do that sincerely and I hope that you'll give them a reading I know you will I sure will Jack Thank You mr. Kennedy and our thanks also a true magazine we appreciate you coming all the way out here to see us I appreciate being here thank you sir [Music]