What happened to Richard Red, after graduating from Walla Walla High School in 1953, and enlisting in the USN?

He tried to encourage CBS to tape other shows in color at the facility, although most shows were taped in black and white at Television City near the famous Farmers Market in Los Angeles. However, CBS boss William Paley had generally given up on color television after the network's unsuccessful efforts to receive FCC approval for their "color wheel" system (developed by inventor Peter Goldmark) in the early 1950s. Although CBS occasionally would use NBC facilities for specials in color, the network avoided color programming until the fall of 1965, when both NBC and ABC began televising most of their programs in RCA's compatible color process. By that time, Skelton had abandoned his own studio and moved to Television City, where he resumed color programs until he left the network.

Who was Richard Red? I went to Walla Walla High School and I've never heard of him....It was in the '70s, but still curious.