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Edgar Bergen
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

Edgar Bergen

American, 1903 - 1978
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Bergen was best known as a ventriloquist with his sidekick dummy, Charlie McCarthy. He also worked as an actor, vaudevillian, comedian and radio performer. He is in the Radio Hall of Fame and Charlie McCarthy was donated to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Additional National Archives holdings related to this Individual can be accessed at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10568323Social Networks and Archival Context record: https://snaccooperative.org/view/25613566