Re "Silver Memories and Bullets," Editorial, Sept. 18: As a matter of fairness, it should be pointed out that the "Lone Ranger" TV series featuring Clayton Moore was not the creative media event that established the Lone Ranger as a cultural icon. It was the radio version of the 1930s and 1940s featuring Brace Beemer and John Todd, the longest-running Lone Ranger and Tonto.
These radio actors with their distinct and easily identifiable voices deserve most of the credit for creating the roles. Moore never had Beemer's beautiful bass voice. After all, it was the voices of radio actors that inspired the imagination.
Don Croley
Hermosa Beach
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You omitted an important and telling part of Clayton Moore's life. For decades after the show ended, he continued to make appearances in the signature mask and hat, continuing to spread the good-guy message of the Lone Ranger. Unfortunately, corporate Hollywood felt threatened by this, and Moore was forced to give up the mask. But true to the Lone Ranger's, and Moore's, sense of right, the corporate bad guys couldn't stop him. Moore simply replaced the mask with sunglasses and went right on spreading the Lone Ranger's creed and, in doing so, became a hero to me again.
