Word: kahler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, on Dallas' WFAA last week, began the kind of candid interview that Manhattan might have smothered with a grey-flannel gag. With his lipstick and powder scrubbed away and his long, curled hair combed back, a 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler faced the cameras of Confession. He was the latest subject in a line of drug addicts, prostitutes, murderers and alcoholics to answer the unrehearsed questions of Interrogator Jack Wyatt...
Like most of Wyatt's guests, Transvestite Kahler was supplied by the police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform...
...Very Good Job." Calling shots in the control room, Director Patrick Fay kept stumbling over gender: "Gimme a closeup for her," and a second later, "Tighten up on his face." But with little show of emotion on his delicate features or in his contralto voice, chain-smoking Kahler gave a forthright, fascinating case history: his masquerade had grown so adept that from the age of 18 he had earned his living not as a female impersonator but as a woman and nightclub B girl. Wyatt's questioning brought out that Kahler had never known his father, that he came...
...year lobbyist for California's Superior Oil Co., which also produces natural gas. Last fall, said Neff, he went to South Dakota to scout Case's views on the gas bill, wound up talking to the business manager of the Argus Leader, Ernest J. Kahler. Neff inquired if Case needed campaign funds. Kahler said he might. Neff asked Kahler to find out how Case stood on the gas bill. Kahler subsequently wrote that Case was inclined toward the bill...
...Elmer Patman, an attorney for Superior Oil, and recommended the contribution to Case. Patman peeled off $2,500 from a "personal" fund, which he handled for Superior's President Howard Keck of Los Angeles. Later, Neff flew to South Dakota and turned 25 old $100 bills over to Kahler for delivery to the Senator's campaign fund...