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3 unusual facts about Paul Carlson


Paul Carlson

He arrived in Congo and began working as a medical missionary for six months in the Ubangi province.

(The Twilight Zone television episode entitled "You Drive" was filmed in this neighborhood one year before Carlson's death.)

You Drive

The house that served as Pope's home still stands at 4183 Keystone Avenue (the address appears on an exterior shot of in the episode) and the nearby park where the accident took place is the Dr. Paul Carlson Memorial Park.


Carlson Park, Culver City, California

It is named for Dr. Paul Carlson Park, a city park in the center of the neighborhood, which is named for Culver City native Dr. Paul Carlson, a medical missionary martyred in the former Belgian Congo.

W. Raymond Beck

The two-Republican district was replaced by three Democrats: Charles E. Barkley, Paul Carlson, and Joan F. Stern after district lines were redrawn.


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