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Armadillo Promoter Obit

Robert Siegel talks with Ross McSwain, retired regional editor for The San Angelo Standard-Times about Sam Lewis a promoter of armadillos. Mr. Lewis has died at the age of eighty. McSwain says when Lewis took his armadillos to London, the Queen Mother was quite taken with them.

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Robert Siegel
Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.