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John Barbours World

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John Barbour "the godfather of reality TV" created, co-hosted, co-produced, and wrote 'Real People' - the first reality show, which was number one on NBC for three years during the early 1980's.

Barbour moved to the United States in the early sixties. His comedy act, particularly his 1965 album, It's Tough to Be White, dealt in part with civil rights and black-white relations.

Barbour hosted the pilot for The Gong Show in the mid '70s, and was a regular panelist on the 1988 Canadian (US syndicated) version of Liar's Club.

Barbour portrayed game show host Harry Monte in a 1975 episode of Sanford and Son.

John Produced, Wrote, and Hosted 'Ernie Kovacs: TV's Original Genius,'for Showtime that aired later on PBS. At the time it was reviewed as 'the best documentary about a performer!'

He also directed and wrote the 1992 documentary The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes. This film covers the investigation of District Attorney Jim Garrison, who, after the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, decided to further investigate the official report given by the Warren Commission. The documentary hypothesizes connections between the assassination and the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and other organizations and foreign affairs issues. The film won an award in 1993 at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.

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Guest, Melinda Leslie

Guest Name
Melinda Leslie
Guest Occupation
Psychic, UFO researcher/lecturer
Guest Biography

Melinda Leslie is a UFO abductee and has been public with her own extraterrestrial and covert-ops human abduction experiences for 28 years and is considered an authority on a military and intelligence agency involvement in UFO abduction cases.  Both her research and personal experiences have been featured in 23 books by prominent authors in ufology.

Melinda is an investigator in the field of Ufology with 29 years of experience. For 7 years she has been the Owner of UFO Sighting Tours in Sedona, Arizona, where she has conducted over 920 tours with the use of military Night Vision Goggles.  To date, Melinda’s 6,000 plus tour clients have felt they always had true UFO sightings on every tour except one!   

Melinda has lectured for numerous organizations including Contact in the Desert, the International UFO Congress, UFO Con, MUFON, the X-Conference, the Bay Area UFO Expo, The Whole Life Expo, and more. She’s a frequent guest on numerous radio shows including as a repeat guest on Coast-to-Coast AM, appeared on several television shows, and is currently co-host of Transcending Realities, a new TV show on IvoloveTV.com on all things UFO, spiritual and conspiracy.