From The Shortest In His Class To The World's Tallest Man

John Aasen, Highland Park Lodge 382, Los Angeles, was a 536 pound actor, occasionally billed as the world's tallest man. Estimates of his height range from about 7'3" to 8'11" but his actual height remains in doubt. Fifteen hundred Brothers attended his raising, which required the assistance of twelve craftsmen. A picture with Aasen and Brother Harold Lloyd standing together confirms Brother Aasen may have been in the range of eight feet tall, since Brother Lloyd was nearly six feet tall. Despite his extraordinary height, Brother Aasen was the shortest child in his Lutheran confirmation class!