Longtime ‘The Price Is Right’ host Bob Barker dead at age 99
WELCOME TO ALEX WITT REPORTS. WE HAVE GIVING YOU THIS BREAKING NEWS, WE MENTION JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO. LEGENDARY HOST OF THE PRICE IS RIGHT, BOB BARKER, HAS DIED. HE WAS 99 YEARS OLD. MSNBC’S JOE FRYER TAKES A LOOK BACK AT HIS LIFE AND LEGACY. >> COME ON DOWN! >> COME ON DOWN. >> THOSE THREE WORDS IS ALL IT TOOK. >> COME ON! DOWN >> THE THING I HEAR, COME ON DOWN! EVERY PLACE I GO. THE BEACH IN HAWAII. EUROPE. MUSEUMS. A LITTLE SOFTER, MAYBE. COME ON DOWN! >> IT’S THE PRICE IS RIGHT. >> THE
35 YEARS, BOB BARKER HOSTED THE PRICE IS RIGHT. A SHOW THE CHALLENGED CONTESTANTS TO GET THE PRICE ON EVERYDAY ITEMS. >> THE ACTUAL RETAIL PRICE IS, $200. IRENE, YOU ARE THE WINNER. >> DARLINGTON, WASHINGTON. BARBARA SPENT HIS EARLY YEARS ON THE ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA. WHERE HIS MOTHER WAS A SCHOOLTEACHER. 1942, HE JOINED THE NAVY, TRAINING AS A FIGHTER PILOT DURING WORLD WAR II. HIS ENTERTAINMENT CAREER BEGAN IN RADIO, WITH A BOB BARKER SHOW. >> OKAY, I GOT. IT GO. >> THE BIG BREAK IN TELEVISION CAME SIX YEARS LATER, HOSTING THE GAME SHOW,
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. >> IF YOU LOOK EXCITEMENT, YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. >> IN 1972, HE WAS ON TO THE SHOW THAT WOULD MAKE
LATER FOUNDED AN ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON REDUCING THE OVERPOPULATION OF DOMESTIC CATS AND DOGS. >> I WAS BORN WITH NOTHING BUT COMPASSION AND LOVE FOR ANIMALS. >> AFTER EACH SHOW, BARKER WOULD MAKE THIS PLEA TO HIS AUDIENCE. >> PLEASE REMEMBER, HELP CONTROL THE PET POPULATION, HAVE YOUR PET SPAYED OR NEUTERED. GOODBYE, EVERYBODY. >> I WANT THE WHOLE THING. >> ON THE BIG SCREEN, HE TOOK A FEW SWINGS THAT ADAM SETTLER. IN HAPPY GILMORE. 2007, THE 83 YEAR OLD BARKER BID A HEARTFELT GOODBYE, ENDING A 50 YEAR CAREER THAT INCLUDED 19 EMMYS. >> I WANT TO THANK
YOU VERY, VERY MUCH. FOR INVITING ME INTO YOUR HOME. FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS. I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL. CONTESTANTS ON A SHOW ONE VALUABLE PRIZES, IT WAS BARKER THAT ONE OVER DAYTIME TV IN
