This Is Your Life: Dr. Lee De Forest Premiere:   May 22, 1957 Host:   Ralph Edwards Network:   NBC-TV Guests   Notes Harry "Pop" Athearn   Former employee; present at St. Louis World's Fair (subject won grand prize gold medal), took wireless set to help cover Russo-Japanese War 1904 (Port Arthur; first use of wireless in wartime) - hadn't seen in 50 years Marilyn    (Mrs. Edward) Culver   Daughter Harriet DeForest   Daughter (by first marriage; born 1910) Marie    (Mrs. Lee) DeForest   Wife of 27 years Dr. Allen B. Du Mont   Via live feed from New York City - television pioneer, inventor, Chairman of the Board of DuMont Television; worked for subject in 1928 - introduces Ralph Edwards, assists surprise Eugenia Farrar   Claimed to be first person in history to have her voice broadcast by radio, October 1907 V. Ford Greaves   Former Navy wireless operator, helped subject set up stations in Cuba and Panama - hadn't seen in 15 years Dr. Elisha Jones   Knew subject in childhood after move to Alabama (subject's father sent to Talladega to direct college for African-Americans) - now physician Eleanor    (Mrs. Frederick) Peck   Daughter Elmo N. Pickerell   Longtime associate, present when the first 3 grid radio tube (audion) was invented in 1906; also first man to demonstrate radio from a plane in flight 1910 (taught to fly by Orville Wright) Mary    (Mrs. Philip) Ralph   Sister Oliver Wyckoff   Former Navy wireless operator; was operator on Secretary of the Navy's yacht "The Dolphin", received signal of Madame Farrar singing