anchor
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and
reporter
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at several
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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and
Florida
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television
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stations.
Dunn was born in
Warwick, New York
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radio
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station
WAAT
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in
Newark, New Jersey
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Tallahassee, Florida
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in 1959 after leaving the army. He served as press secretary to U.S. Representative (and later Senator) Ed Gurney (R-FL), then worked as an anchor and reporter for WTVT in
Tampa, Florida
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from 1962 to 1964 before moving to
WCBS-TV
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where he worked from 1964 to 1968. Mr. Dunn served in that same role for
WABC-TV
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from 1969 to 1970 and at
WOR-TV
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from 1971 to 1987. Among his duties at WOR was anchoring the long-running ''News at Noon''. He later worked for WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, where he did weekend evening and late night news until his retirement in the late 1990s.
Dunn died of
esophageal cancer
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in
Stuart, Florida
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on July 2, 2006.
His wife, Anna Dunn, reported that
Richard Nixon
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asked Dunn to be his press secretary, but he turned down the position because he feared he might not be able to get back into television news if he took the job. Mr. Dunn was an avid sailor, skier, cooking enthusiast and voracious reader. Mr. Dunn also appeared in several motion pictures, including ''
Turk 182
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Plot
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Without A Trace
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