Ron Cochran, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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television journalist
Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1912
Date of Death: 25-Jul-1994
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Ron Cochran
- Ron Cochran (September 20, 1912 – July 25, 1994) was a Canadian-born American television news journalist who worked for ABC and CBS.
- He served as the anchor of the ABC Evening News (now known as ABC World News Tonight) from 1962 to 1965.
- In November 1963, he served as the network's principal anchor for the around-the-clock coverage of the assassination of US President John F.
- Kennedy.
- Before that, he hosted the CBS drama television series Armstrong Circle Theatre. Cochran was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, near Moose Jaw.
- He grew up in Iowa and attended Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.
- After working in Midwest radio stations he joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation for two years.
- Then, in 1945, he went to work at a Boston radio station. In 1951,he was hired by CBS, where he did both television and radio based in Washington.
- It was in 1954 that he went to WCBS-TV, to reinforce its 11 P.M.
- news program.
- He also was the moderator of the CBS-TV programs "Man of the Week," from 1952 to 1954, and "Youth Takes a Stand," from 1954 to 1955, and CBS Radio's "Answer, Please!" from 1958 to 1959. After moving to ABC, he anchored "The ABC Evening News with Ron Cochran" from 1963 to 1965.
- He then started Ron Cochran Enterprises, which produced radio and television programs.Cochran was the main anchor of ABC's break in coverage of the Assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
- Cochran announced the death of President Kennedy as "confirmed" and ABC News ran a graphic showing Kennedy's picture and the dates 1917-1963 after a wire service report came to him that "government sources in Washington" had stated the President was dead, something both CBS' Walter Cronkite and NBC's Bill Ryan chose not to do.
- This wire report came to Cochran several minutes before assistant press secretary Malcolm Kilduff officially announced the President's death.Despite the rival networks' expansion in 1963 of their evening newscasts to a full half-hour, ABC Evening News would run only 15 minutes during Cochran's tenure; the network deferred expansion until Peter Jennings, his successor, took over the anchor's desk for his first stint.
- He later went to KGO-TV and anchored newscasts with Roger Grimsby. Cochran died July 25, 1994, aged 81, in Lake Worth, Florida, after a heart attack.
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