Robert H. "Bob" Young (November 7, 1923 – January 19, 2011)
was a television news journalist for
ABC
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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.
After leaving ABC, Young went to
WCBS-TV
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in
New York City
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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)
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,
NBC Radio News and
UPI Audio. He then turned to
public relations
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work.
Young died on January 19, 2011, in
Ridgewood,
New Jersey
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, at the age of 87.
References
External links
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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