Herbert joined KFWB when it switched from its pop music format to 24-hour news on March 11, 1968. He worked as an anchor and reported on many major news stories in the country that year, including the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn.
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