Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (born January 31, 1927) is an actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well-known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's shows in television, the Dallas-based Peppermint Place.
Haynes began his most famous role in 1961, playing a character who wore a red and white-striped jacket and straw hat and carried a candy-striped magic cane. The original show ran for nine years as a live show, with Mr. Peppermint talking with a variety of puppet characters and including everything from cartoons to French lessons.
Early in the run of his show, an accident of fate made Haynes the first to report the Kennedy assassination on local news, together with his program director, Jay Watson. The two had attended the event at which Kennedy was to appear, then heard the deadly shots just after seeing the presidential motorcade round the corner. The men quickly located and interviewed eyewitnesses, going on the air shortly later:
I ran three blocks back to the station, and Jay got some eyewitnesses and brought them over. He and I were the first to go live on local TV and report the terrible moment. I went home that afternoon, and Doris and I gathered our children around and discussed it as best we could. There was no direct discussion about it on Mr. Peppermint the next week. I didn’t feel qualified to counsel the viewers on it. We just behaved in a subdued and respectful manner.
During these early years, the show began at 7:30 AM and ran for one hour, competing in its last half hour with the national CBS broadcast of Captain Kangaroo but usually winning its time slot. National trends shifted, however, and in 1970, the show was replaced by a talk program for the adult audience. After the Federal Communications Commission called in 1975 for more educational programming for children, the show was retooled as "Peppermint Place," a taped half-hour magazine-style program. The show continued in that format for over 20 years, eventually being syndicated to 108 markets nationwide before ending its run in 1996.
The cache is a 
very well hidden in a spot that's pretty tricky to get to. Parking is very close, but maneuvering around the weeds and trash will pose the real challenge here. It's a fairly public area, but no one will be paying attention to what you're doing, unless you decide to lick the peppermint.
Of course make sure you BYO
'cause there ain't no room in there for nothin' else.
Coordinates were determined with a WAAS enabled eTrex Legend Cx, averaged over a 8 minute span to an accuracy of 4.3'.
