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Long Time CBS Radio News Correspondent David Jackson Dies

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KMan

I heard an obit this morning on an hourly newscast...

David Jackson was one of six anchors/reports purged in 1999 (along with World News Roundup anchor Bill Lynch and Paul James, who later anchored I-Net newscasts at ABC).

I didn't really start listening and paying attention to talent on radio news until about 2003, so I don't remember him.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-jackson-cbs-radio-newsman-tiananmen-square-dead/

Sam Litzinger had an obit on this newscast, this morning. Starts at :04.

http://audio.cbsradionewsfeed.com/2015/07/04/07/Hourly-07.mp3
 
I met David Jackson in late 1966 when he was hired by WVIP AM&FM in Mt. Kisco, NY. Dave had just finished a stint in the Peace Corps and was living at home in Pound Ridge. I was the First Phone engineer on duty for his air shift and being that we were the two youngest employees we struck up a friendship. He wanted me to go with him to the upcoming Indy 500 but before that happened he suddenly joined the Marine Corps. I soon got drafted and didn't meet up with Dave again until I stopped in at WVIP one day in 1971. I believe at that time he was already married.

Dave was a broadcast journalist in the Marines and was at the siege of Ke Sahn. I got lucky and was a broadcast supervisor in Saigon. Our worlds were different at that point, I was an engineer at ABC Radio Net and he was about to join CBS as a writer. If the military thing had not come up we might have been fast friends.
 
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