Bob Clark (May 1922-December 9, 2015) was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a B.S. and M.A. while studying journalism and politics. Bob was a television reporter and White House Correspondent for

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from the 1960s until the 1970s. He is most remembered for reporting the

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s of

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in 1963 and

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in 1968. He was riding in a press car in President Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade in 1963 and witnessed RFK’s 1968 murder at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Clark was the only person to see both Kennedy brothers after each was shot in

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and

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, respectively. He was also a contributing host to the ABC Sunday interview program, then entitled ''

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'', now known as '' This Week''. Later in his life, around the 1990s, Clark was a guest commentator on C-SPAN. He died December 9, 2015, at the age of 93.

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Bob Clark Papers at GMU
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Bob American reporters and correspondents American television journalists American male journalists 2015 deaths ABC News personalities 1922 births