When he was a young man, Gene received an offer from a professional baseball team to become a player. Gene turned down the offer because it would have meant a fifty-dollar-a-month pay cut from his telegrapher's job.

News Archive: 2007

Radio & Television Interviews with Author Holly George-Warren on the Gene Autry Biography
Updated August 28, 2007

Author Holly George-Warren has visited several radio shows to chat about her new book Public Cowboy No.1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry and discuss America's Favorite Signing Cowboy.

We thought you'd like to hear these radio interviews yourselves and get to know a little bit more about the author and her work. As new interviews become available, we will post them here.

KCET's Life & Times
August 28, 2007

The award winning KCET program "Life & Times" featured a segment on Gene Autry on August 14, 2007 at 7:00PM. Read

WAMC.org
May 11, 2007

The Roundtable hosts speak with Holly George-Warren, author of Public Cowboy Number 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry. Read

WNYC.com
May 1, 2007

"Gene Autry was more than just America's favorite singing cowboy. He invested early in real estate and broadcast media, owned the California Angels baseball team, and was listed in the Fortune 400 in the 1990s." Read