{"id":4903,"date":"2021-11-17T19:29:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2021-11-17T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:29:35","slug":"john-keel-and-candid-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=4903","title":{"rendered":"John Keel and &#8220;Candid Camera&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
 I know that most people who read this site are more interested in John&#8217;s work in Forteana and ufology than in his earlier career in radio and TV. However, given that there was always a bit of the trickster in him (as commenters here have sometimes noted), I thought I&#8217;d post an example of his work as a professional prankster. Here are ten scenarios for the long-running TV show <em>Candid Camera<\/em>. They&#8217;re from around 1964; I don&#8217;t know if they were ever used.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA1-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA1-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA2.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA2-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA2-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA3.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA3-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA3-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CANDIDCAMERA3-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that most people who read this site are more interested in John&#8217;s work in Forteana and ufology than in his earlier career in radio and TV. However, given that there was always a bit of the trickster in him (as commenters here have sometimes noted), I thought I&#8217;d post an example of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}