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This is an extract from a much longer article:
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Keya Morgan sometimes sleeps with Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch clutched in his hand or with Marilyn Monroe's dress next to him. It makes for amazing dreams, he says.
It also puts Morgan -- owner of a vast array of historical photos, documents and objects -- at the nexus of celebrity, conspiracy and collectibles.
He's friends with an unusual array of famous people, many of whom he met while gathering his artifacts and information.
Michael Jackson was among them. Marina Oswald still is.
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In addition to being a collector, Morgan is a historian and filmmaker -- and will become an author in the spring when his book, "Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive," is scheduled to be published.
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"I feel so fortunate to be able to live alongside of history," Morgan said. "History is like a drug to me. I get a total high."
Morgan's addiction, which began at New York estate sales at age 8, soon grew into a business.
He was a teenager operating a collectibles shop in Manhattan in the mid-1990s when he met a new client and friend.
"A guy with a mask and a hood walks into my shop," Morgan said. "It scared the living daylights out of me. I knew I was going to be robbed."
A customer who was selling gold coins to Morgan fled in fright, but when the masked man spoke, Morgan realized it was Michael Jackson.
The pop icon, a well-known buyer of historical artifacts, was searching for prints of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, Morgan said.
Jackson returned several times to the shop he called "a little Smithsonian on 25th Street," Morgan said.
Jackson called Morgan a "time traveler" because of his passion for artifacts, ranging from his statuette from King Tut's tomb to Muhammad Ali's personal writings.
When Morgan gave Jackson a ring that once belonged to Monroe, Jackson returned the favor by teaching him his trademark dance step.
"He actually taught me the Moonwalk in my shop," Morgan said, adding that he can still do the move.
Morgan later became close friends with real moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step onto the lunar surface.
"I always pride myself in going straight to the source," he said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/keya-morgan-fame-series/
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Keya Morgan sometimes sleeps with Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch clutched in his hand or with Marilyn Monroe's dress next to him. It makes for amazing dreams, he says.
It also puts Morgan -- owner of a vast array of historical photos, documents and objects -- at the nexus of celebrity, conspiracy and collectibles.
He's friends with an unusual array of famous people, many of whom he met while gathering his artifacts and information.
Michael Jackson was among them. Marina Oswald still is.
...............................
In addition to being a collector, Morgan is a historian and filmmaker -- and will become an author in the spring when his book, "Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive," is scheduled to be published.
......................
"I feel so fortunate to be able to live alongside of history," Morgan said. "History is like a drug to me. I get a total high."
Morgan's addiction, which began at New York estate sales at age 8, soon grew into a business.
He was a teenager operating a collectibles shop in Manhattan in the mid-1990s when he met a new client and friend.
"A guy with a mask and a hood walks into my shop," Morgan said. "It scared the living daylights out of me. I knew I was going to be robbed."
A customer who was selling gold coins to Morgan fled in fright, but when the masked man spoke, Morgan realized it was Michael Jackson.
The pop icon, a well-known buyer of historical artifacts, was searching for prints of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, Morgan said.
Jackson returned several times to the shop he called "a little Smithsonian on 25th Street," Morgan said.
Jackson called Morgan a "time traveler" because of his passion for artifacts, ranging from his statuette from King Tut's tomb to Muhammad Ali's personal writings.
When Morgan gave Jackson a ring that once belonged to Monroe, Jackson returned the favor by teaching him his trademark dance step.
"He actually taught me the Moonwalk in my shop," Morgan said, adding that he can still do the move.
Morgan later became close friends with real moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step onto the lunar surface.
"I always pride myself in going straight to the source," he said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/keya-morgan-fame-series/
It's lovely that he could find people like that to share his passion with. I have a bit of a passion for older things myself, even though I don't have much knowledge I still very much appreciate them.