{"id":58871,"date":"2016-05-26T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58871"},"modified":"2016-05-25T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T23:00:09","slug":"capn-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58871","title":{"rendered":"Cap’n Jim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Word came this past week of the passing of broadcasting legend Jim Rohn<\/a>\u00a0– or, if you grew up within 100 miles of Fargo in the sixties and early seventies, “Captain Jim”:<\/p>\n

Rohn got his start in 1946 on the radio at KSJB-AM in Jamestown following his service in World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was radioman\/gunner on Navy dive bombers during the war.<\/p>\n

A very young Rohn, in a KSJB head shot.<\/p><\/div>\n

KSJB was the “enemy”, the station across Main Street from the station I grew up at.<\/p>\n

After a few years, he moved to Fargo when sisterstation KXJB-TV was launched, where he was a fixture for many years as a weatherman, among other roles.<\/p>\n

He was known to viewers who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s as \u201cCaptain Jim,\u201d his persona in a children\u2019s show, a name that stuck among viewers of a certain age for years afterward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Captain Jim. It ran every afternoon from long before I was born until sometime after I had school in the afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rohn also hosted \u201cPolka Party\u201d on Saturdays, dressed in a Bavarian lederhosen outfit.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a real character,\u201d said Al Aamodt, a veteran broadcaster at KVLY and KXJB\u2019s Valley News Live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had lost track of Rohn when he left KXJB when I was in probably second grade – and was amazed to hear him on the air when I was driving through the Lakes area probably ten years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Word came this past week of the passing of broadcasting legend Jim Rohn\u00a0– or, if you grew up within 100 miles of Fargo in the sixties and early seventies, “Captain Jim”: Rohn got his start in 1946 on the radio at KSJB-AM in Jamestown following his service in World War II. He was radioman\/gunner on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58931,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58871\/revisions\/58931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}