American actor, comedian, and bandleader best known for The Honeymooners and a decades-long friendship with Richard Nixon. According to Gleason's second wife, Beverly McKittrick, speaking after their 1975 divorce, Nixon took Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base in the early hours of February 19, 1973, where Gleason was shown what he believed were the bodies of non-human beings in a secure building. Gleason reportedly recounted a version of the story to friends and associates over the years but never confirmed it in an on-record public statement before his death in 1987. The claim rests on secondhand and disputed testimony and has never been independently corroborated.