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Kevin Eckhoff of Jacksonville and a couple of friends were in New York City several years at a Broadway theatre waiting for James Earl Jones to emerge for a possible quick photo and autograph.
One of Eckhoff s friends, Jay Todd, started chatting up a security officer, mentioning that he lived in St. Louis.
That piqued the officer s interest, who ducked inside and emerged a couple of minutes later, asking if they wanted to go backstage to meet the actor. So we re in this tiny Broadway dressing room where we re almost elbow to elbow, Eckhoff recalled with a laugh. Apparently, James Earl Jones had grown up for a period of time in St. Louis and went to school and used to walk through Forest Park from school to home and for whatever reason it struck a nerve with him.