This interview originally aired on Fresh Air on Jan. 9, 2012. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend is now out in paperback. If you're a baby boomer, you might remember the old TV Series The Adventures ...

The very mention of the name Rin Tin Tin evokes in most people the image of a strong, intelligent, heroic German Shepherd dog. The original Rin Tin Tin starred in 30 movies and his direct genetic ...

Susan Orlean's new book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend is, like much of her previous work, a story that shines a light on obsession. Orlean delights in elegantly recasting fringe characters on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee Aaker, who starred in the ABC series “The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin,” died this month near Mesa, Arizona of a stroke, ...

IN THE FALL of 1954, the American television schedule included puppets and comics, average families and aging celebrities, cowboys, detectives, and two dogs with Hollywood histories. Lassie was gentle ...

RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean. Simon & Schuster, 324 pp, $26.99. Stop that scoffing. Yes, Susan Orlean spent nearly a decade of her life researching and writing a book about a ...

The rise of Rin Tin Tin is a classic only-in-America story, and here's our Rita Braver to tell it: Meet Rin Tin Tin the XXII, spokesdog for the American Humane Association, who recently presided over ...

Born on a battlefield in France during World War I and rescued by a U.S. soldier named Lee Duncan, a terrified German shepherd puppy would become the most famous dog in the world. Named Rin Tin Tin, ...

Members of the baby boomer generation might remember the old TV series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, about a German shepherd and a boy named Rusty who lived with a cavalry troop in the American West.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann Archive Lee Aaker as Rusty on The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Lee Aaker, best known for his role as Rusty on 1950s TV ...