dr. rucker as i was. dr. rucker stood about 5'6" to dr. blue's six feet and he was a charming man, had a gift with speech and could charm all of the ladies of san francisco into covering their metal trash cans and routing the rats. in fact, his war cry became ladies when you look in your garbage cans, think of me. so, this made him very popular. but dr. rucker had a personal tragedy. for a while he was fighting the plague in san francisco his wife annette contracted tuberculosis. so, on the one hand you had the black death of the playing and the white playing of tuberculosis. and i was curious to what became of the ruckers, but the trail came cold so i went to the online genealogical sites and there was a rucker family website so i typed in a random query and said if any of you are you related to w. colonel by rucker i would love to correspond with you. so once again months passed and i had about given up, then one day i opened my email file and there was a bold faced message and an email from someone named colonel by rucker. i felt like t