Talbot Perry Simons

Talbot was born and raised in the Bronx. His father was a plumber. His mother was a housewife. Talbot went to James Monroe High School Talbot had good marks all his years in school but he always had behavior problems. He used to get in trouble in class for constantly making humorous comments, joking about what was said in class by the teacher. At the age of sixteen he left high school to go to work and was the youngest person ever hired by Equitable Life Assurance to work in the Group Life Insurance Benefits department and at the age of 17 he joined the U.S. Navy. He went to boot camp at the Great Lakes naval Base in Illinois. He went to two class "A" schools in the navy as a Communications Technician. Talbot held special classified materials clearances which he always says saved his life. The clearances prevented him from being sent to Vietnam during the war. He always says, "If I went to Vietnam I would have probably been shot while telling a story." With the clearances he held and k