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| * Became a journalist in 1944 at the Gladewater High School Newspaper |
| * Served in the U.S. Air Force as a journalist and worked at a Rio Grande Valley newspaper |
| * First radio job was at KGVL Greenville while attending East Texas State College |
| * At KNOW in Austin, covered President John F. Kennedy assassination |
| * Was Texas White House and President Lyndon Johnson reporter for UPI, Fairchild Newspapers, ABC and several news organizations |
| * Joined the original staff and helped pioneer the all-news format at WINS in New York in 1965 |
| * In 1966 named news director at all-news KFWB in Los Angeles where station won Sigma Delta Chi Award for Robert Kennedy assassination coverage |
| * Joined KMOX TV in St. Louis in 1974 as a reporter and stayed until his retirement in 1994 |
| * During his broadcasting career, he shared and won individual awards including regional Emmys, Sigma Delta Chi Award, National Headliners Award, Southern California News Directors Association, Billboard Magazine and Columbia University DuPont Award and is one of only two persons to ever receive an honorary membership in the Southern Illinois Police Chiefs Association |
| * Two years after his retirement, a St. Louis newspaper poll found him to be one of the six most popular reporters in the area |
| * Moved home to East Texas and passed away in Gladewater on August 24, 2003 |
