Jim Nabors Was Not The Man America Thought He Was

Jim Nabors had two voices. One made America laugh every Friday night for years. The other he kept hidden from millions of fans who thought they knew him. Behind the Gomer Pyle smile was a boy who grew up trapped indoors by asthma. A young man who typed for the United Nations before a comedian discovered him in a tiny Los Angeles cabaret. A television star whose career was nearly destroyed in 1971 by a wedding invitation he never sent. For 38 years, he lived a life nobody on the mainland knew about. The full story waited until 2013.