Journalist Don Harris

Don Harris

Living place: Port Kaituma

Birthday: 8-9-1936

Global rank: #82114

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Who is Journalist Don Harris?
Don Harris real name Roy Darwin Humphrey was a journalist, news reporter for NBC who died after traveling to Jonestown - an agricultural commune in Guyana in 1978. Harris was also a 4-time Emmy Award-winning reporter and a prestigious DuPont/Columbia award.
 
 

Young / Before famous

In 1957, Harri got his first job for the local radio station WVOP. He then began his career providing television weather information at a station in North Carolina.
Then from 1964 to 1968 Harris worked for WTVT in Tampa, Florida. as a broadcaster; then, from 1968 to 1969 he worked at WTOP in Washington, DC. In December 1969, he became a journalist and news presenter at WFAA-TV in Dallas, and he also hosted a live television morning news magazine called "News 8". etc...". In 1973, he left WFAA and started working for NBC-owned KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, reporting on the American war, the fall of Saigon from the Vietnam War, The news boom earned him the name "Mr. Lucky"
He was also the creator of an international counterterrorism investigative video that aired on NBC Nightly News in the spring of 1978.

Family life info

Harris is married to his wife Shirley, with whom they share two daughters, Claire and Lauren, and a son Jeffrey, who became a reporter in Spokane, WA for KXLY-TV. Currently, his family is living in Woodland Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

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Who is Girl friend/ wife/ darling Journalist Don Harris?
He and Leo Ryan were the people who were killed in the Jonestown tragedy in 1978.

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When was Journalist Don Harris born?
Don Harris was born in 8-9-1936, death year is , at the age of 88.
Where is Journalist Don Harris's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Don Harris was born in Georgia, of United States. Mr working and living in Port Kaituma, of Guyana. Mr, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Don Harris's global rank is 82114 and whose rank is 480 in list of famous Journalist.
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Events in 1936 and 8-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Don Harris

  • Rome-Berlin Axis is proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940).
  • King George V dies; succeeded by son, Edward VIII, who soon abdicates to marry an American-born divorcée, and is succeeded by brother, George VI.
  • Spanish civil war begins. Hundreds of Americans join the "Lincoln Brigades." (Franco's fascist forces defeat Loyalist forces by 1939, when Madrid falls.)
  • War between China and Japan begins, to continue through World War II.
  • Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937.
  • Gen. Anastasio Somoza leads a coup d'etat in Nicaragua ushering in Somoza family dictatorship for more than 4 decades.

Birthday Don Harris (8-9) in history

  • Day 8-9 year 1900: A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing about 8,000 people.
  • Day 8-9 year 1935: Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish," was shot and mortally wounded by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
  • Day 8-9 year 1951: The San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed, formally ending World War II hostilities with Japan.
  • Day 8-9 year 1952: Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea was published.
  • Day 8-9 year 1966: Star Trek premiered on television.
  • Day 8-9 year 1974: President Gerald Ford gave former President Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while he was in office.
  • Day 8-9 year 1998: Mark McGwire's 62nd home run broke Roger Maris's record of 61 homers set in 1961.
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