Carthage, Missouri - Marlin Perkins Statue Sculpted and installed in 1988 by Bob Tommey and Bill Snow. Perkins died in 1986. Because Walt Disney had fabricated footage of a mass suicide of lemmings in its film White Wilderness, then CBC journalist Bob McKeown asked Marlin Perkins if he had done the same. Perkins, then in his seventies, "firmly asked for the camera to be turned off, then punched a shocked McKeown in the face."