The death of Ken Osmond last week came as a shock to anyone who grew up watching TV's Leave It to Beaver in the early 1960s. The shock for me wasn't that Osmond had died but that he had been alive all this time. The word among kids in the '70s was that the guy who had played Eddie Haskell in the sitcom died in Vietnam. [Photo of Ken Osmond above as Eddi…
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