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Riched20 10.0.19041
Ron Cochran
5x7
B & W
Photo
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5x7 photo authentically signed (not printed). uninscribed
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Ron Cochran (September 20, 1912 July 25, 1994) was a Canadian-born American television news journalist who worked for ABC and CBS. He served as the anchor of the ABC Evening News from 1962 to 1965. In November 1963, he served as the network's principal anchor for the around-the-clock coverage of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Before that, he hosted the CBS drama television series Armstrong Circle Theatre.
After working in Midwest radio stations, he joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation for two years. Then, in 1945, he went to work at a Boston radio station. In 1951, he was hired by CBS, where he did both television and radio based in Washington. In 1954, he went to WCBS-TV, where he was a newscaster on the 7 P.M. and 11 P.M. news programs. He left WCBS in 1960 to work on a daily 1 P.M. newscast on CBS-TV. He also was the moderator of the CBS-TV programs Man of the Week, from 1952 to 1954, and Youth Takes a Stand, from 1954 to 1955, and CBS Radio's Answer, Please! from 1958 to 1959.
After moving to ABC, he anchored The ABC Evening News with Ron Cochran from 1963 to 1965. He then started Ron Cochran Enterprises, which produced radio and television programs. As previously mentioned, Cochran was the main anchor of ABC's break in coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Cochran announced the death of President Kennedy as "confirmed" and ABC News ran a graphic showing Kennedy's picture and the dates 1917-1963 after a wire service report came to him that "government sources in Washington" had stated the President was dead, something both CBS' Walter Cronkite and NBC's Bill Ryan chose not to do. This wire report came to Cochran several minutes before assistant press secretary Malcolm Kilduff officially announced the President's death.
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