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John Walsh (television host)
American television host and crime victims' activist
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act ({{USPL|109|248}}) was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on July 27, 2006, following a two-year journey through the United States Congress.
George W. Bush
They included Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his chief of staff Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' liaison to the White House Monica Goodling, aide to the president Karl Rove and his senior aide Sara Taylor.
Karl Rove
American political consultant and policy advisor (born 1950)
Another candidate, Harold See, ran against Mark Kennedy, an incumbent Democratic justice and the son-in-law of George Wallace.
George Wallace
Wallace retracted the invitation, and (after considering Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders) chose former Air Force General Curtis LeMay of California.
John Walsh (television host)
American television host and crime victims' activist
However, since ''America's Most Wanted'' was still on the air at the time, he found it difficult to host both shows at the same time, so he asked then-NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker to release him from his contract.
Jeff Zucker
American media executive (born 1965)
As such, he encouraged the ''Crimson'''s decades-old prank rivalry with the '' Harvard Lampoon'', then headed by future NBC employee Conan O'Brien, which culminated in Zucker having O’Brien arrested.
In 2010, in response to a public controversy over the network's reported rescheduling of late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, ''Los Angeles Times'' reporters Meg James and Matea Gold wrote that Zucker's tenure had led to "a spectacular fall by the country's premier television network" and dubbed the intra-network feud and subsequent public relations fallout "one of the biggest debacles in television history".
Norm Macdonald
In August 2015, he succeeded Darrell Hammond as Colonel Sanders in TV commercials for the KFC chain of fast food restaurants.
John Walsh (television host)
American television host and crime victims' activist
John and Revé Walsh were portrayed by actors Daniel J. Travanti and JoBeth Williams in ''Adam'', a 1983 NBC television film dramatizing the days following Adam's disappearance.
JoBeth Williams
American actress and television director (born 1948)
Her starring role in the film '' American Dreamer'' (1984), opposite Tom Conti, earned her the 1985 Best Actress Award from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.{{Citation needed |date=April 2022}} High-profile co-starring roles in ''Teachers'' (1984) with Nick Nolte, ''Desert Bloom'' (1986) with Jon Voight, ''Memories of Me'' with Billy Crystal (1988), and Blake Edwards's '' Switch'' (1991) with Ellen Barkin followed.
Jon Voight
The project also featured a large ensemble of other well-known Hollywood actors including Jim Caviezel, Louis Gossett Jr., John Rhys-Davies, Luke Perry, Gary Sinise, Jason Alexander, Christopher McDonald, Marisa Tomei and John Schneider.
Jason Alexander
American actor, comedian, director and television host
In 2018, Alexander became one of several celebrities to play Colonel Sanders in commercials for KFC, reprising his role from the 2002 campaign.
John Walsh (television host)
American television host and crime victims' activist
In 2003, John Walsh assisted in solving the Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart on an episode of ''America's Most Wanted'', where Ed Smart showed the picture of Brian David Mitchell's "Emmanuel" appearance.
Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart
2002 child abduction case in the U.S.
In October 2003, Elizabeth Smart and her parents were interviewed for a special segment of ''Dateline NBC.'' The interview, conducted by the ''Today'' show's Katie Couric, featured Elizabeth's first interview with any media outlet.
Katie Couric
On the domestic end of her affiliation, Couric has had as guests ''The View'' co-host Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan of '' Live! with Kelly and Michael'', as well as some cast members of the soap opera '' General Hospital''.
Kelly Ripa
American actress and talk show host
In a process similar to the one in which she was selected to replace Gifford, a rotating lineup of co-hosts auditioned on-air with Ripa to take over her former co-hosting duties, including: Michael Strahan, Seth Meyers, Josh Groban, Nick Lachey, Neil Patrick Harris, Chris Harrison, Jerry O'Connell, Joel McHale, Carrie Ann Inaba, Bryant Gumbel, Jerry Seinfeld, Mike Greenberg, Boomer Esiason, Dan Abrams, Martin Short, Howie Mandel, Pat Kiernan, Jesse Palmer, D.L. Hughley, Derek Hough, Sam Champion, Taye Diggs, Ben Mulroney, Kevin Jonas, Randy Jackson, Michael Bublé, Peter Facinelli, Rob Lowe, Dana Carvey, Reggie Bush, Fred Savage, and Mario Lopez.
Rob Lowe
American actor, producer, director, and podcaster
On April 21, 2017, KFC released a campaign featuring Lowe as astronautColonel Sanders giving a JFK speechspoof/homage about launching the Zinger chicken sandwich into space.
Lowe said in a statement that when he was a child, his grandfather took him to meet Harland Sanders.
