Jessie the chicken plucker
What a
wonderful story ---- I never knew............ A DREAMER
AND HIS DREAM
Let me
tell you, Jesse hated this job. And you would too,
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Imagine, if you had to do
it.
Jesse was a chicken plucker.
That's right.
He stood on a line in a chicken factory and spent his days
Pulling the feathers off
dead chickens so the rest of us
Wouldn't have to.
It wasn't much of a job. But
at the time,
Jesse didn't think he was
much of a person.
His father was a brute of a
man.
His dad was actually thought to be mentally ill
And treated Jesse rough all
of his life.
Jesse's older brother wasn't much better.
He was always picking on Jesse and beating him up.
Yes, Jesse grew up in a very
rough home in
West Virginia. Life was anything
but easy.
And he thought life didn't
hold much hope for him.
That's why he was standing in this chicken line,
Doing a job that darn few
people wanted.
In addition to all the rough treatment at home, it seems
That Jesse was always sick.
Sometimes it was real
physical illness, but way
too often it was all in his head.
He was a small child, skinny
and meek.
That sure didn't help the situation any.
When he started to school, he was the object
of every Bully on the playground.
He was a hypochondriac of the first order.
For Jesse, tomorrow was not always something
he Looked forward to.
But, he had dreams. He wanted to be a ventriloquist.
He found books on
ventriloquism. He practiced with
Sock puppets and saved his
hard earned dollars until
He could get a real
ventriloquist dummy.
When he got old enough, he joined the military.
And even though many of his
hypochondriac symptoms
Persisted, the military did
recognize his talents and
Put him in the entertainment
corp.
That was when his world changed.
He gained confidence.
He found
that he had a talent for making people laugh,
And laugh so hard they often
had tears in their eyes.
Yes, little Jesse had found himself.
You know, folks, the history books are full of people
Who overcame a handicap to
go on and make a success
Of themselves, but Jesse is
one of the few I know of
Who didn't overcome
it. Instead he used his paranoia
To make a million dollars,
and become one of
The best-loved characters of
all time in doing it!
Yes, that little paranoid hypochondriac, who transferred
His nervousness into a
successful career, still holds the
Record for the most Emmy's
given in a single category.
The wonderful, gifted, talented, and nervous comedian
Who brought us Barney Fife
Was
Jesse Don Knotts.
NOW
YOU KNOW, "THE REST OF THE STORY"
There is a street named for
him and his statue in
Morgantown, West Virginia,
his place of birth.
Jesse Donald
"Don" Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24,
2006)
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