In the 1980s Boone owned a television station in Orange County, California, on which he featured a variety of conservative evangelical religious shows and launched the short-lived career of ultra-right-wing talk-show host Wally George. In 2006 Boone penned an article for the arch-conservative political magazine WorldNetDaily in which he argued that Democrats and others who are against the Iraq War cannot, under any circumstances, be considered patriotic. He was later interviewed by Neil Cavuto on Fox News, where he expressed outrage against critics of George W. Bush, especially the Dixie Chicks, saying that their criticisms of the President showed they did not "respect their elders". He wrote another article defending actor Mel Gibson, who is a member of an extremely conservative Catholic denomination, after the actor was recorded unleashing a vicious anti-Semitic tirade while he was being arrested for drunk driving by a police officer he believed to be Jewish (the officer, as it turned out, was a Christian). In early 2007 Boone wrote two articles claiming that the scientific theory of evolution is "absurd," "nonsensical" and
Member of the Gospel Hall of Fame and Christian Hall of Fame.
One of the owners of the American Basketball Association's Oakland Oaks from 1967-69. He sold his interest in the team and it moved to Washington, DC.
Raised in Denton, Texas, USA.
Singer Roy Orbison was a classmate when both future singers attended North Texas State Coillege.
Was personally invited by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to perform at his inaugural ball on 20 January 1957.