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A GOLDEN VOICE IS SILENT AT 81!

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      George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013)

Country music star George Jones died early in the morning. He had been
hospitalized since April 18 at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville with
fever and irregular blood pressure.
       

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CAROL BURNETT IS 80 TODAY

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Actress/comedian Carol Creighton Burnett is best known for her
long-running TV variety show,
The Carol Burnett Show on CBS
(1967-1978).

 

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JOURNALIST BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1908

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Edward R. Murrow, Washington State College
graduating class of 1930.

 

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               Edward R. Murrow (Egbert Roscoe Murrow)

                            (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)

Edward R. Murrow was a broadcast journalist known for his series of radio
news
broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of
listeners in the United States.

A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV
news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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Edward R. Murrow on See It Now, CBS

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PIONEER INTRODUCES LASERDISC!

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LEE MAJORS IS 74 TODAY

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Actor Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary) is best known for
his roles as Heath Barkley in the TV series The Big Valley
(1965–1969), as Colonel
Steve Austin in The Six Million
Dollar Man
(1973–1978) and as Colt Seavers in The Fall
Guy
(1981–1986).

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