Dick Carlson former TV Anchor and former VOA director dead at 84

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Dick Carlson, Award-Winning Journalist, Political Whisperer and Father of Tucker Carlson, Dies at 84

Richard "Dick" Carlson, an award-winning journalist, political lobbyist and diplomat whose colorful – and often personally tragic – life took him from a Boston orphanage to the highest levels of media, business and American political power, has died. He was 84.

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Here is an obit on Dick Carlson. Also in the photo in the link it included an ID when he had done assignments for KTVU San Francisco.

As a reporter and anchor at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, Carlson won several awards, including a Peabody in 1971 for a story about car promotion fraud. He later became the longest-serving director of Voice of America, the federal government’s nonmilitary broadcasting arm, under the Reagan Administration.


He left in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush nominated him as U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles, and served less than a year before becoming CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the private but publicly-funded facilitator of content for public airwaves, where he remained five years