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Murphy Martin (WFAA-Dallas) gravely ill

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MikeShannon914

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He's been battling heart issues off and on for a while. His prognosis now is not good. Murphy turns 83 this year. He's best known for his stints at the anchor desk for ABC News in the 1960s, and at WFAA-TV Channel 8 on three different tours until 1975. Murphy was the longtime voice of Texas Stadium, did hundreds of commercials (remember all the ones for "Preston Chrysler Plymouth"?), worked with Ross Perot and went on many of those goodwill trips to SE Asia, and wrote the wonderful book, "Front Row Seat." Please keep him and his wife in your prayers...she's having health issues as well.
 
I grew up watching him and Bob Gooding on WFAA.


When ever I see his name, it reminds of the time when I was kid and we were over visting friends who lived on a circle in North Oak Cliff. I was out hanging around in the street when a car drove out of the driveway across the circle and out stared a face I had been used to only seeing in Black & White on the TV.
 
Saw Murphy at the hospital today. All in all, he's holding up pretty well. If it was only about his mental health and his attitude, he'd be in perfect shape. But he's going to need our prayers and thoughts, folks...please remember him.
 
Mike can you tell us which hospital he's in? I'd like to send him a card. And I would also like to pass this on to his many friends in the Lufkin area, where he started out in radio sixty some-odd years ago.
 
YES! I'm sure he'd love to hear from his old friends and fans. He mentioned his days in Lufkin when we talked the other day. Email me off the board at [email protected] and I'll send you the address.
 
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