Regional Health Services, the Elkhorn Valley Museum, and the Johnny Carson Theater at Norfolk Senior High School.
Other events
Carson was cited in a 1982 drunk-driving incident while driving a DeLorean DMC-12 sports car in Beverly Hills. Represented by Robert Shapiro, he pleaded no contest to the charges, and played off the incident by having a uniformed police officer escort him on to the Tonight Show stage.
Carson, an amateur astronomer, was close friends with astronomer Carl Sagan, who often appeared on The Tonight Show. The unique way Sagan had of saying certain words, like “billions” of galaxies, would lead to Carson ribbing his friend, imitating his voice and saying “BILL-ions and BILL-ions”, a phrase soon erroneously attributed to Sagan himself. According to Sagan’s biographer, Keay Davidson, Carson was the first person to contact Sagan’s wife with condolences when the scientist died in 1996. He owned several telescopes, including a Questar,
