The incident gained national news coverage, including an appearance by Mrs. Hodges on Gary Moore's TV show, I've Got a Secret.
Just two months before his death, at age 95, he appeared on the February 9, 1956 episode of the CBS TV quiz show I've Got a Secret as a mystery subject, in an episode in which Lucille Ball made an unusual appearance as a guest panelist.
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Its competition was Garry Moore's quiz program, I've Got a Secret on CBS, and the second half of the military drama Twelve O'Clock High starring Robert Lansing, Paul Burke, and Robert K. Dornan.
In the fall of 1960, Leach appeared on the television program I've Got A Secret alongside Boston American Freddy Parent, as a commemoration of participating in the first World Series in 1903.