Why me? : an autobiography
This book is about how one life was violently ended, and how another one began. William Gargan was an American film, television, and radio actor. After growing up in Brooklyn, he worked as a store investigator/collector, a private detective, and a bootlegger during prohibition before a visit to the theatre where older brother Edward was employed sent him in a different direction. Gargan was best known for his role as private detective Martin Kane in the 1949-52 radio-television series "Martin Kane, Private Eye", sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. But his acting career came to an end in 1958 when he developed throat cancer, and in 1960 doctors removed his larynx. Speaking through an artificial voice box, Gargan became an activist and spokesman for the American Cancer Society, warning others about the dangers of smoking
Print Book, English, ©1969
First edition
Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., ©1969