Color photograph of Rose McKinney-James, Mya Reyes, Shelley Berkley, and Roosevelt Toston.

Interview with Roosevelt Toston conducted by Claytee D. White on July 11, 2006. Toston grew up in Epps, Louisiana, and came to Las Vegas in the 1950s as a teenager. He describes his experience at Las Vegas High School and the first jobs he held at the Fremont Hotel and the Nevada Test Site. Toston honed his skills at Dana McKay's School of Business, Bell Telephone of Nevada, and in the military. A correspondence course in broadcasting led to jobs at television stations 3 and 8, and ultimately to a position with the Convention Authority in the area of tourism marketing.

Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston as the KLAS-TV 8 reporter/cameraman.

Gertrude Toston moved to Las Vegas in 1960. She worked for Western Airlines for 27 years, then earned Masters in Education.

Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston's "surrogate mother," Annie Markham. She was known as Aunt Babe, and was Roosevelt's father's sister.

Black and white photograph of Roosevelt Toston interviewing singer Perry Como.

Color photograph of Roosevelt Toston at his first broadcasting job at KOPK-TV, Channel 3.