Selected Gubernatorial Activities
During the Citizens Band radio craze of the mid-1970s, Governor Raul Castro became one of the first U.S. governors licensed as a CB radio operator. In 1976, he had a CB radio installed in the official state limousine and his handle (radio name) was “Arizona One.” Patricia Castro also obtained a CB radio license and her handle was “Arizona Two.”
Governor Raul Castro established the Arizona Motion Picture Development Program within the Office of Economic Planning and Development. The purpose of the program was to attract motion picture and television business to Arizona. One of the more notable big-budget Hollywood films shot in Arizona during Castro’s governorship was Clint Eastwood’s “Gauntlet.”
