{"id":8486,"date":"2010-02-25T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2010-02-25T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:59:17","slug":"larry-king-live-delays-frustrate-koenigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/02\/larry-king-live-delays-frustrate-koenigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry King Live Delays Frustrate Koenigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Walter <\/strong>and<strong> Judy Koenig<\/strong> were due to appear on <em>Larry King Live<\/em> last night to ask for help in finding their missing son, but too many delays resulted in the couple opting out of doing the segment.<\/p>\n<p>Another news story, one on a killer whale attack at SeaWorld, was given precedence on the show and by the time <strong>Larry King<\/strong> was ready for the Koenigs, there was only five minutes left of his hour show, which the Koenigs felt was insufficient time to present their story to the public.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As the program neared its end, just before a commercial break, King promoted the upcoming interview with the Koenigs, panning to a live shot of the couple in Vancouver. But after the commercial, the couple was gone and King did not know what had happened. &#8220;I&#8217;m told that they left the studio,&#8221; he said, &#8220;so we&#8217;ll take a quick break and find out why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the commercial break, King told his audience that &#8220;For some reason unbeknownst to anyone, Walter Koenig, the father of the missing <strong>Andrew Koenig<\/strong>, and Judy Levin-Koenig, the mother of the missing Andrew Koenig, left the studio in Vancouver. We checked them out, they were prepared to go on. I said &#8216;hello,&#8217; they both said &#8216;hello.&#8217; We said we&#8217;d be on in two minutes, they said &#8216;fine,&#8217; and they got up and left for reasons unknown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle Koenig,<\/strong> daughter of Walter and Judy and sister of the missing Andrew, explained why the Koenigs left abruptly. &#8220;[<em>Larry King Liv<\/em>e] kept pushing the segment back and my dad was growing frustrated,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When he realized there were only four-and-a-half minutes left, he didn&#8217;t feel that was enough time to do my brother justice. So, he left.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter and Judy Koenig were due to appear on Larry King Live last night to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2589,3089],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-koenig","tag-larry-king-live"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}