Don Knotts has died. He was 81 years old. Most will remember him as Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show.
During the four years that I worked at St. Joseph Hospital, in Kansas City, I had many young black males come into the hospital and see me and call me "Barney Fife." Sometimes they would start singing the song "I shot the Sheriff."
Photo above is of me in 1973.
When I first started working hospital security people would ask if I had any bullets in my gun. If I was in the Deputy Barney Fife mood I will tell them I had one bullet in my pocket.
In the photo above the gun is a Smith & Wesson Outdoorsman .38 on a 44 frame. It was a big gun and I got a lot of comments about it.
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