Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
We knew Johnny Carson was a comedian? But a brazen cowboy?
In the mid-1970s, Carson found a live grenade with a threat demanding $250,000 in cash. If he didn’t deliver it, a note read, his family would be harmed, Showbizz 44 reports.
So with the help of the FBI, Carson, who carried his .38 revolver with him, delivered the money – “cut up paper stacked and wrapped in 125 bill sized bundles,” according to the recently published book, “Johnny Carson.”
The FBI arrested 26-year German national and his wife. Ended up the grenade wasn’t real.
