Jerry Haynes
At Red River, NM's fourth of July parade
Born	Jerome Martin Haynes January 31, 1927 (1927-01-31) (age 81) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Doris

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Acting career

The "Mr. Peppermint" years

Haynes began his most famous role in 1961, playing a character who wore a red- and white-striped jacket and straw hat and carried a candy-striped magic cane. The original show ran for nine years as a live show, with Mr. Peppermint talking with a variety of puppet characters and including everything from cartoons to French lessons.

Early in the run of his show, an accident of fate made Haynes the first to report the Kennedy assassination on local news, together with his program director, Jay Watson. The assassination of John F Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday November 22 1963 in Dallas Texas The two had attended the event at which Kennedy was to appear, then heard the deadly shots just after seeing the presidential motorcade round the corner. The men quickly located and interviewed eyewitnesses, going on the air shortly later:

During these early years, the show began at 7:30 AM and ran for one hour, competing in its last half hour with the national CBS broadcast of Captain Kangaroo but usually winning its time slot. Captain Kangaroo was a Children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American Television network CBS from National trends shifted, however, and in 1970, the show was replaced by a talk program for the adult audience. After the Federal Communications Commission called in 1975 for more educational programming for children, the show was retooled as "Peppermint Place," a taped half-hour magazine-style program. The show continued in that format for over 20 years, eventually being syndicated to 108 markets nationwide before ending its run in 1996.

Other television and film work

Haynes in the 2007 Red River, New Mexico fourth of July parade

Most of Haynes' film career has been in made-for-television films, especially those set in his native Texas. Red River is a town in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. His first film role was in the 1981 docudrama Crisis at Central High, about the integration of Little Rock's Central High School, filmed in Dallas. A Docudrama is a Dramatization of actual historical events Generalities Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics Crisis at Central High was a 1981 Made-for-television movie about the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957, based on a draft of the memoir Little Rock is the Capital and the most populous city of the U Little Rock Central High School is a secondary school Central is located at the intersection of Daisy L Texas-themed films in which he has appeared — mostly based on true stories — include Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986), A Killing in a Small Town (1990, aka Evidence of Love), Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story (1992), Texas Justice (1995), Don't Look Back (1996), and It's in the Water (1997). Bonnie Parker ( October 1 1910 &ndash May 23 1934) and Clyde Barrow ( March 24 1909 &ndash Don't Look Back ( 1996) is a made-for- HBO Action movie / thriller directed by Geoff Murphy ( Under Siege 2 Dark

His chief feature film roles include 1984's Places in the Heart, as Deputy Jack Driscoll, and in the 1985 Patsy Cline biopic Sweet Dreams as Owen Bradley, Cline's record producer. Places in the Heart is a 1984 Drama film which tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man A biographical motion picture &mdash often shortened to biopic &mdash is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people Sweet Dreams is a 1985 biographical film which tells the life story of Country music singer Patsy Cline. Owen Bradley (c October 21, 1915 - January 7 1998) was an influential American Record producer He also played minor roles in RoboCop (1987) and Boys Don't Cry (1999). RoboCop is a 1987 Cyberpunk film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film features Peter Weller, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 independent Drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender who

He also has appeared as himself, partly through archive footage, in four documentary films discussing the Kennedy assassination: Rush to Judgment (1967), 11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried (1989), Stalking the President: A History of American Assassins (1992), and Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film (1998). Rush to Judgment is the title of a book written by Mark Lane and published not long after the JFK assassination. The Zapruder film is a silent 8 mm color home movie of the presidential motorcade of John F

In 1996 the Lone Star Film & Television Awards honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He regularly appears in the Red River, New Mexico fourth of July parade in a peppermint-colored Jeep. Red River is a town in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. Jeep is an Automobile Marque (and registered trademark of Chrysler.

Notes

1. ^ "10 Notable Woodrow Wildcats," The Dallas Morning News, March 9, 2004, Metro section, 15B
2. ^ "Rolling Stone Knows: Is Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers really the son of a TV children's-show host?" Rolling Stone (undated)
3. ^ "The Candy Man," by Joe Nick Patoski, Texas Monthly July 1996

External links

• Jerry Haynes at the Internet Movie Database
• "The Candy Man," feature story in Texas Monthly, July 1996
• Robert Wilonsky. "Happy Birthday, Mr. Peppermint!" Dallas Observer's Unfair Park blog (includes interview content), January 31, 2007</ref>