Before becoming a household name as a pillar of late-night television, Johnny married Joan "Jody" Morrill Wolcott in 1949 after they met as students at the University of Nebraska. The pair welcomed ...

Among the remarkable alumni of the University of Nebraska, no star has shone brighter, for longer, than that of the King of Late Night, Johnny Carson ’49. Carson’s Tonight Show was, not to exaggerate, ...

Offstage, nobody called him Johnny – not even when he was a boy. It was always John. Johnny was only for TV. In “Carson the Magnificent,” by the late Bill Zehme, you will get to know Johnny Carson ...