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Bob Young

Bob Young

Acting
07 Nov 1923
19 Jan 2011
Covington, Kentucky, USA

Biography

Robert H. "Bob" Young was a television news journalist for ABC News. He served as the anchor of The ABC Evening News from October 1967 to May 1968. Young's most noteworthy broadcast took place on April 4, 1968, when he anchored ABC's coverage of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.