Every fast food restaurant needs a colorful mascot to help sell their food, but Kentucky Fried Chicken is rare in that their mascot was a real person.

Harland Sanders was born in Indiana in 1890, even though the Colonel Sanders persona was still a character he played. Sanders wasn’t a colonel in the military, but he was an honorary Kentucky colonel, and his iconic look of a white suit with a string tie and a white mustache and goatee only came near the end of his life. Let’s take a look at the crazy real-life story of Colonel Harland Sanders.

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A poor, rural, Southern early life | 0:00
A gas station shoot-out | 1:08
The origins of the Colonel | 2:01
Famous because of Duncan Hines | 2:55
The first KFC...in Utah | 3:49
Brand ambassador at age 73 | 4:53
20 years of the white suit | 6:02
He came to hate KFC food | 7:01
He got sued by KFC and lost | 8:17
Curse of the Colonel | 9:16

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