Early Life
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1943, Beardslee was the oldest of three children and his father died when he was 11. He was sent to a military school at age 15 and joined the U.S. Air Force at 19 where he served for four years as an aircraft mechanic. He and another airman were caught in 1965 while trying to steal a vehicle. He was sentenced to a work farm in Minnesota where he was hit by a falling tree and suffered a head fracture and a days-long coma.
He was married to Karen Kelly from 1966 to 1968.
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