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The original documents are located in Box 45, folder "King, Leslie (President's Half
Brother)" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 45 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
readying the heart of Rancho Seco
Bee Photo by Dick Schmidt
ultimate bomb shelter.
Natural Father' Story
Sacremento Bee
Jerry Ford's Other Family
8.18.74
By Jerry Cohen
in Tucson, Ariz., in 1941 at the age of
King, best known simply as "C.H."
In time, C. H. King acquired
Times-Post News Service
54.
C. H. King began acquiring wealth
handsome home in Los Angeles.
Forty-five years ago in Grand Rap-
The new President was born to
an Omaha wool merchant and oper-
His son Leslie gradually assumed
ids, Mich., a year-old boy was walk-
King, then 28, and his young wife, the
ator of a stage coach freight line in
control of his father's enterprises, but
ing on his high school campus during
former Dorothy Gardner of Harvard,
the Midwest and Plains states.
he, too, spent à considerable period of
a noon recess when a stranger ap
III., in Omaha, Neb., on July 14, 1913,
Through his connections, C. H
time in Los Angeles. And it was in
proached him.
and named after the father: Leslie
helped the Burlington Railroad gain
Los Angeles that he met his second
The boy declined.
Lynch King Jr. Mrs. Ford was 21 at
a foothold in Wyoming - and he fol-
wife, the member of a pioneer Cali-
You're my son," the stranger told
the time.
lowed it there, to his great profit.
fornia family.
the high school football team's star.
The Kings were divorced the fol
He opened general stores along
The two daughters born to them at
Although the boy had no recollec-
lowing January, and she married a
routes of the railroad in such spots
Riverton, Wyo., the President's
tion' of the man, he knew what the
Grand Rapids paint store owner, Gér
as Casper, Glen Rock and Douglas, He
half-sisters, are Mrs. Marjorle Werner
stranger said was trues He had been
ald Rudolph Ford. not long after. In
founded the first bank in Casper and& of
Cumberland, Md., and Miss Patri-
Ford's Brother Weighs Politics
Nashville, Tenn. - LESLIE
guest conductor for the New
Ford's half-brother, is think-
York Philharmonic,
ing about a career in politics
as n Republican candidate for
London-Actor BURT LAN-
the House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 4th Congres-
CASTER showed up for the
sional District. "I have consid-
premiere of the movie "Moses,"
ered it, and I have had several
32, which he plays the title role,
calls from people across the
and told reporters that he
state who want me to run,"
doesn't believe in the Ten Com-
mandments. "I have certain
ethics by which I live," he said.
Making News
"I don't believe in a God or a
hereafter."
Riverside, Calif.
-
Sen
King said. "But right no
UP 069
(FORD KIN)
NASHVILLE, IENN. ( UP D -- PRESIDENT FORD' S HALF BROTHER, LESLIE
(BUD) KING, IS REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING A BID FOR THE 4 TH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT SEAT HELD BY DEMOCRAT JCE EVINS FOR 3e YEARS.
SINCE EVINS' ANNOUNCEMENT SUNDAY THAT HE WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION,
A FLOCK OF DEMOCRAIS AND KING, A REPUBLICAN, HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST
IN THE TRAD IT IONALLY DEMOCRATIC POST.
ALBERT GORE JR., 27, SON OF THE FORMER U.S. SENATOR, WAS THE FIRST
PER SON TO DECLARE HIS CANDIDACY FOR THE SEAT.
KING, A REPUBLICAN AND OPERATOR OF A COOKEVILLE TIRE COMPANY, SAID
HE EXPECTED TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT THE RACE WITHIN 30 DAYS
UPI 03-02 01:31 PES
UP-008
(FORD KIN)
WITH "BUD" A TRACTOR-TRAILER TRUCK ON INTERSTATE 40 NEAR HERE, THE
LEBANON, KING SR., WAS KILLED EARLY TODAY WHEN HIS CAR COLLIDED HIGHWAY
TENN. (UPI) -- PRESIDENT FORD'S HALF-BROTHER, LESLIE HEADON H.
PATROL SAID.
HIGHWAY PATROL SAID THAT KING, 53, OF COOKEVILLE, TENN., COUNTY. WAS
PRONO UNCED THE DEAD ON ARRIVAL AT MCFARLAND HOSPITAL IN WILSON OF
"THE KING VEHICLE WAS GOING WEST IN THE EASTBOUND LAND
ONE INTERSTATE -FOURTH MILE WEST OF THE STATE 109 EXIT," A HIGHWAY PATROL RADIO
40, STRIKING A TRACTOR-TRAILER TRUCK HEADON ABOUT
SPOKESMAN SAID.
WAS ALONE IN THE CAR. THE DRIVER OF THE TRUCK WAS NOT HURT.
THE KING ACCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 1:45 A.M. CST AT FEW MILES FROM
LEBANON, THE PATROL SAID.
KING WAS THE SON OF FORD'S FATHER WHO DIVORCED THE PRESIDENT'S
MOTHER AND REMARRIED.
A WHITE HO USE SPOKESMAN SAID EARLY TODAY THE PRESIDENT HAD NOT
BEEN INFORMED OF THE ACCIDENT.
UPI 12-02 08:36 AES
NO05
U
FORD'S BROTHER
LEBANON, TENN. (AP) -- LESLIE HENRY KING, PRESIDENT FORD'S
53-YEAR-OLD HALF BROTHER, WAS KILLED TODAY WHEN HIS CAR COLLIDED
HEAD-ON WITH A TRACTOR-TRAILER ON INTERSTATE 40 NEAR THIS
CENTRAL TENNESSEE TOWN, POLICE SAID.
STATE POLICE SGT. RON HILL SAID KING' SOCAR WAS WESTBOUND
IN THE EASTBOUND LANE OF THE INTERSTATE WHEN IT HIT THE TRACTOR-TRAILER.
KING, A RESIDENT OF COOKEVILLE, TENN., WHERE HE OWNED AN
AUTO PARTS STORE, WAS ALONE IN THE CAR AND APPARENTLY WAS
KILLED OUTRIGHT, HILL SAID.
THE DRIVER OF THE TRACTOR-TRAILER, BILLY HUDSON, WAS NOT
INJURED, HILL SAID.
HILL SAID IT TOOK MORE THAN AN HOUR TO CUT KING'S BODY
FROM THE TANGLED WRECKAGE.
WITNESSES TOLD POLICE THAT KING HAD BEEN DRIVING IN THE
WRONG DIRECTION FOR SEVERAL MILES, HILL SAID..
OPERATORS OF CITIZENS BAND RADIOS WHO SAW KING DRIVING
THE WRONG WAY SAID THEY TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO WARN HIM
OFF THE HIGHWAY.
HILL SAID AN INVESTIGATION WOULD BE MADE..
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