... Col Harland Sanders and my daughter, taken in 1980 at his house shortly before his death.

Harland Sanders was a real person – a man who in the 1970s was one of the world’s most recognizable celebrities. At age 65, with only a sixth-grade education and a $105 Social Security check, Sanders turned a Southern restaurant into a multi-million dollar global chicken empire. By 1976, he was ranked as the world’s second most recognizable celebrity after Muhammad Ali. Sanders died at age 90.