My readers are nothing if not persistent. Someone who signs his e-mails "Smiler Grogan" (probably not his real name) was sure that was Eddie "Rochester" Anderson in that video I posted. "Smiler" did a lot of Internet searching and found an article about the commercial in the December 25, 1969 of Jet, which was (and still is) a magazine for the black community. And sure enough, right there on page eight, there's this…
So Eddie Anderson was there for the shoot. Okay, I'm convinced that was him. Now, what I want to know is: Was Ed Sullivan really in it? I don't see him and he's not mentioned in any of the other articles folks have found. If he was asked, I'll bet he was there because Ed Sullivan would have robbed a 7-Eleven if it meant he'd be on camera. So where the heck is he?