Dating to the 1970s, these promos for the Boy Scouts of America include an Explorer Post promo, a celebrity-studded couple of ads promoting the Scouts in general, and a “Join the Scouts” ad promoting the fact that “Scouting Today is a lot more than you think.”
The second and third ads from the firm Foote, Cone and Belding feature a variety of celebrities including a member of the Knicks basketball team, actor James Stewart (:53), Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner (1:00), Henry Fonda (1:10), and President Gerald Ford (1:15) as well as Arthur Godfrey (1:46), David Hartman (1:48), astronaut Eugene Cernan (1:52), baseball player Hank Aaron (1:55), Olympian and seven time gold medal winner Greg Spitz (1:57) and others.
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