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## Early Life and Career of Charles Osgood Wood III

Charles Osgood Wood III, known as Charlie, was born on Jan. 8, 1933, in Manhattan. His father, Charles Osgood II, worked as a textile salesman and later took on a second job as an expediter for a copper company during World War II. The family moved to Baltimore when Charlie was 6. His mother, Mary (Wilson) Wood, went by the name Violet.

Charles attended Fordham University where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in economics. He spent a significant amount of his time at the campus radio station and later landed his first job as a radio announcer at WGMS, a classical-music station, in Washington, D.C. Realizing that he might be drafted, he applied to be the announcer for the U.S. Army Band and got the job, which he held from 1955 to 1958.

During his career, Charles also worked under different names at various radio stations in the Washington area. Listeners knew him as Chuck Forest and Carl Walden, which were plays on his real name. He even had the unique experience of being the personal disc jockey for President Dwight D. Eisenhower after the president’s heart attack in 1955.

## Career after Army Service

After his Army service, Charles returned to WGMS where he eventually became the program director. He was later transferred to a pay television station in Hartford, Conn. operated by RKO General, where he experienced losses prompting his departure in 1963.

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