Jess Oppenheimer (November 11, 1913 – December 27, 1988) [1]a radio and television writer, producer, and director, was producer and head writer of the landmark CBS sitcom I Love Lucy.[2] Lucille Ball called Oppenheimer \"the brains\" behind I Love Lucy. As series creator, producer, and head writer, \"Jess was the creative force behind the \Lucy\ show,\" according to I Love Lucy director William Asher. \"He was the field general. Jess presided over all the meetings, and ran the whole show. He was very sharp.\"[3] He was born in San Francisco, California, \"where in the third grade he was chosen as a subject of the landmark study of gifted children by Stanford University professor Lewis Terman. Terman\s assistant noted in Oppenheimer\s file, \"I could detect no signs of a sense of humor.[4] During his junior year at Stanford during the 1930s, Oppenheimer visited the studios of radio