Robert H. "Bob" Young (November 7, 1923 – January 19, 2011)
was a television news journalist for
ABC News. He served as the anchor of ''The ABC Evening News'' (now known as ''
World News Tonight'') from October 1967 to May 1968. Young's most noteworthy broadcast took place on April 4, 1968, when he anchored ABC's coverage of the
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7 ...
After leaving ABC, Young went to
WCBS-TV in
New York City where he anchored the 11:00 p.m. newscast until 1971. He later returned to radio news anchoring at New York's all-news
WINS (AM),
NBC Radio News and
UPI Audio. He then turned to
public relations work.
Young died on January 19, 2011, in
Ridgewood Ridgewood may refer to:
Geography Australia
*Ridgewood, Western Australia
Canada
* Ridgewood, Ontario
*Ridgewood, Edmonton, Alberta
United Kingdom
*Ridgewood, East Sussex
United States
*Ridgewood Heights, California
* Ridgewood, Illinois
*Ridge ...
,
New Jersey, at the age of 87.
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Bob Young reports Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination
1923 births
2011 deaths
20th-century American journalists
ABC News personalities
American male journalists
American radio news anchors
American television journalists
People from Covington, Kentucky
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