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Oklahoma native James Garner was a film and television legend, an Academy Award nominee, a two-time Primetime Emmy winner, and three-time Golden Globe winner best known for his starring roles in the popular television series Maverick (1957-62) and The Rockford Files (1974-1980). As Robert Lloyd described Garner in the Los Angeles Times: Many fans who read Garner's obituaries when he passed away in July 2014 at the age of 86 were surprised to learn that the actor was a veteran who served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and had two Purple Hearts on his service record for wounds suffered in combat, which he described with his usual self-deprecating humor: Those facts prompted the inquiry about an incident during the Korean War in which Garner fortunately detected the nearby presence of unseen enemy soldiers by catching a whiff of garlic in the air: There is some truth to the account, although in Garner's own telling what happened was somewhat less dramatic than presented above: He smelled garlic while on guard duty and was therefore able to alert his unit that an enemy patrol on the other side of a rise was heading for their position in time to stop them; he did not smell North Koreans down in a valley and convince a higher-up to bring an air strike down on their position. As he matter-of-factly wrote of the event in his 2011 memoir, The Garner Files:
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