Slim Pickens - Western movie actor and rodeo performer

Anyone old enough to remember Stanley Kubrick's movie "Dr. Strangelove" can picture the scene when Slim Pickens straddles the H-Bomb that's about to drop on an unsuspecting city, like a wild bronc and rides it on down to nuclear oblivion. That was my friend Slim Pickens, actor and rodeo star who appeared in so many movie and TV westerns he lost count. Slim and I met at a radio remote, and against all odds (me a city boy from NYC and he a western cowboy) would become real life grea...