>>LAUREN VERNO: SO TOMORROW, THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE WILL HONOR FORMER MAYOR JAKE GODBOLD
HIS CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE
WILL BE HELD AT THE PRIME
OSBORN CONVENTION CENTER THAT
HE
HELPED DEVELOP. WE BROUGHT YOU
SEVERAL STORIES ABOUT THE
LASTING IMPACT THAT GOD-AWFUL
HAD ON THE CITY AND NEARLY
EVERYONE WHO
MET HIM. JAKE GODBOLD’S LONG
TIME FRIEND TO AN AIDE MIKE
TOLBERT JOINS US THIS MORNING
ON THE MORNING SHOW GOOD
MORNING GOOD
MORNING HERE. MY PLEASURE
KNOWING GOING THROUGHOUT THE
PROGRAM FOR TOMORROW. I
KNOW THAT FAMILY IS GATHERING
AT RIVER CITY BREWING AND IT’S
INTERESTING BECAUSE THAT IS ONE
OF THE
FAVORITE PLACES WHERE JAKE
GODBOLD WOULD KIND OF HOLD
COURT AS YOU REFERRED TO IN HIS
BIOGRAPHY HOLD COURT OVER GOOD
CONVERSATION AND GOOD FOOD.
>> THAT WAS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE
THINGS TO DO IT WITH THE
50 YEARS THAT I’VE KNOWN HIM ON
THE
U N CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME I
MEAN IT WAS CUT INS. IT WAS
PICCADILLY
THAT WAS RIVER CITY BREWERY WAS
JACKIE SEAFOOD IT
JUST DEPENDED BUT THE LATE THE
LAST ONE WAS WAS RIVER CITY AND
HE LOVED
GOING THERE.
>> SO IT’S INTERESTING BECAUSE
I’M IN IN LEARNING ABOUT YOUR
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM WHICH
WHICH DATES BACK 50 YEARS.
YOU WROTE THAT YOU
WERE SMITTEN FROM REALLY RIGHT
AWAY FROM YOU MET WHEN YOU MET
HIM YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WERE AT A
REPORTER COVERING PORTER AT THE
FLORIDA TIMES-UNION AND I
BELIEVE HE HAD JUST BEEN
ELECTED TO THE
CITY COUNCIL.
>> MY MEMORY WRITE A NOTE THE
OTHER NEW CITY COUNCIL WAS
KNEW IT. BUT I WANT TO COVER
WELL AS A LOT OF YEARS AGO A
LOT OF IT THAT THE YEARS AGO I
COVERED THE CITY TO CITY
GOVERNMENT.
>> AND MET JAKE AND THAT WAS I
WAS SMITTEN YOU KNOW IT WHEN
YOU’RE IN THE NEWS BUSINESS.
NEWS MEDIA.
NOTHING BETTER THAN A GOOD
SOURCE. GOOD COPY.
AND JACK WAS ALWAYS GOOD CUP HE
ALWAYS HAD SOMETHING
TO SAY AND HE ALWAYS KNEW WHAT
WAS GOING ON HE WOULD SHARE
THAT AND SO IT WAS AGAIN A
GREAT RELATIONSHIP.
>>LAUREN VERNO: WHAT WAS IT
ABOUT HIS PERSONALITY YOU THINK
THAT DREW SO MANY PEOPLE TO
HIM, I MEAN WE KNOW THAT HE YOU
KNOW PRIDED HIMSELF ON THE FACT
THAT HE WAS
REALLY THIS. HIS POOR KID WHO
GREW UP ON THE NORTH YOU KNOW
IN THE PROJECT SAYS HOOPER
FORWARD TO IT AND IN
PUBLIC HOUSING AND HE REALLY
USE THAT TO
AMAZINGLY RALLY. A COMMUNITY AT
THE TIME WAS WAS PRETTY DIVIDED
WHEN IT COME TO RATE WHEN IT
CAME TO RACE WHEN IT CAME TO
RACE AND IM PRETTY.
>> IN THE DUMPS WHEN IT CAME TO
A LOT OF EVERYTHING IT WAS
JUST A HE WAS A RARE INDIVIDUAL
I MEAN HE HAD ENTHUSIASM FOR
EVERYTHING ABOUT LIFE. AND
THAT’S ONE REASON WE’RE DOING
THIS CELEBRATION A
HE ABOVE ALL THE THINGS WE CAN
TALK ABOUT HIS LEGACY. IT WOULD
SEEM TO ME THE MOST IMPORTANT
IS THE SPIRIT THAT HE BROUGHT
TO THIS COMMUNITY. THE CHANGE
IN ATTITUDE FROM A CITY THAT
HAD AN INFERIORITY COMPLEXES OF
ROATAN AND TO A CITY WITH A CAN
DO ATTITUDE AND JUST STARTED
ACHIEVING THING AFTER THING
AFTER THING UNDER HIS
LEADERSHIP IN SO TOMORROW WE’RE
GOING TO DO IT’S CELEBRATE THAT
WE WERE GOING TO RENEW
THAT SPIRIT.
>> AND IT’S INTERESTING BECAUSE
YOU KNOW IT BASICALLY STARTS
WITH WITH MUSIC WHERE THE
SAINTS GO
MARCHING IN A TESTAMENT TO HIS
LOVE FOR JAZZ, YOU KNOW HE’S
REALLY CREDITED FOR BRINGING
THE JAZZ FESTIVAL TO OUR CITY
RIGHT.
>> WELL HE YOU KNOW I WAS A TRY
TO PUT A GOOD LONG TIME TO GET
HIM TO SIT WITH ME IN AND TALK
TO ME ABOUT WHAT
HE WANTED WHEN HE PASSED AWAY
AND HE DIDN’T WANT TO DO THAT
IF YOU CAN
APPRECIATE THAT AND THEN ABOUT
2 YEARS AGO HE FINALLY AGREED
TO SIT
WITH ME FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES
THAT WAS ALL THAT WAS ALL HE
WON THE TOP BUT IT WAS OBVIOUS
HE HAD ALREADY GIVEN THIS
SOME THOUGHT AND SO WITH HIM IN
LESS THAN 15 MINUTES. I MADE
THE TOP AND I WROTE AND ONE OF
THE THINGS HE WANTED WAS.
WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
AND
GOING BACK TO THE JAZZ FEST FOR
ONE OF THE THINGS HE ENJOYED
MOST ABOUT THE DEATHS FESTIVAL
WAS THAT WE ALWAYS HEAD
A NEW ORLEANS BRASS BAND ONE OF
THE FEW NO BAN FOR THE GUY WITH
THE UMBRELLA. AND
I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH SOMEWHERE
OF HIM DANCING WITH THAT FELLOW
WITH
THE UMBRELLA. AND SO WE THOUGHT
WHAT A NATURAL THING TO DO HAVE
A BRASS BAND OPENED AND THEY
HAVE SEVERAL CHOIRS ALSO EDWARD
WATERS COLLEGE AS WELL.
>> IT’S LAUNCHING KNOW LARSON LAWN PARTIES LARSON’S WANTS TO PARSONS AND HAS A GREAT STORY
OF METS OR
THE ROAD.
>> TODAY IN THE TIMES UNION
ABOUT WANT TO DO AND HIS
PERFORMANCE LODGING NEW.
CAME TO ME IN
1983 AND SO THAT I’M AS I’M I’M
AS GOOD AS DIZZY GILLESPIE OR
ANYBODY YOU GOT
THE PLAN HE’D BEEN PLAYING IN
FRANCE AND IN EUROPE YOUNG GUY
FROM JACKSONVILLE. AND I SAID
WELL I WANT LOCAL TALENT AND
WITH THE BIG STARS.
SO PUT YOU ON THE STAGE AND
WE’LL FIND OUT AND I’LL BE
DAMNED IF HE HE WAS PRETTY GOOD
HE STILL IS SAFE THAT THE HOLES
AND OR I PRESTON HASKELL MARTHA
BARRETT LONG TIME FRIEND OF
>>LAUREN VERNO: SO MANY PEOPLE
WHO WILL BE SHARING
THEIR MEMORIES. YOU KNOW OF
MAYOR GOBBLE WERE LOOKING FOR
TO KNOW THAT WE’RE COVERING IT
LIVE ACTUALLY HEAR THE STATION
THANK YOU MIKE FOR BEING WITH
THINK YOU VERY MUCH GOOD.
WE HOPE WE HAVE A GOOD CROWD.
THE MORE IT SOUNDS LIKE I HE
TOUCHED SO MANY LIVES I WOULD
BE SURPRISED IF
THERE WASN’T. NOW AGAIN JAKE
GODBOLD’S MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL
BE TOMORROW HELD AT THE PRIME
OSBORN CONVENTION CENTER IT IS
SET TO BEGIN AT 10 O’CLOCK IN
THE MORNING DOORS OPEN AT
8.30 NEWS 4 JAX ANCHOR TOM
WILLS WILL BE THE MASTER OF
CEREMONIES AND DOUBLE WHERE FOR
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SPECIAL COVERAGE STARTS AT 10
O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
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