Bob Barker: The Legendary TV Personality
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Introduction
Born on December 12, 1923, in Darrington, Washington, Bob Barker began out in home entertainment in 1950 with his own radio program. In 1972, he joined the TELEVISION game show Early Life
TV character, game show host, and animal rights activist. Barker's father passed away when he was very young; until he was in 8th grade, he coped with his mother, Matilda, a teacher, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. When Matilda remarried, the family transferred to Springfield, Missouri.
Barker graduated from senior high school in the early 1940s and went to Springfield's Drury College on a basketball scholarship. He left school in 1943 to train as a boxer pilot in the United States Naval Reserve, but World War II ended before he was provided an assignment for