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Bob Clayton (born James Robert Box, [1] August 17, 1922 – November 1, 1979) was an American television game show announcer and host of several shows. He spent his early television career hosting shows in Miami, Florida before moving to New York in the 1960s.
Magda Goebbels (1945), German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning. [494] [495] Gongsun Zan (199 AD), Chinese general and warlord, setting himself and his family on fire [496] David Goodall (2018), English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide [497]
Bob Clayton: Announcer The $20,000 Pyramid: approx. 1040 1979-11-01 Cardiac arrest: approx. 5 Replaced by Steve O'Brien. Mary McCarty Nurse Clara "Starch" Willoughby Trapper John, M.D. 22 1980-03-30 Heart attack: 1
The following are notable peoples who died by suicide in the year 2001 and after. Suicides under duress are included. Deaths by accident or misadventure are excluded. Individuals who might or might not have died by their own hand, or whose intention to die is in dispute, but who are widely believed to have deliberately died by suicide, may be listed under Possible s
During the Payola scandal, Ginsburg was among a number of high-profile Boston disc jockeys (including Norm Prescott, Bob Clayton, and Joe Smith) called upon to testify before a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. in early 1960. Several of the announcers, Ginsburg among them, acknowledged receiving monetary "gifts" from record promoters ...
A 1970 NBC publicity photo featuring Art James, Bob Clayton, Jack Kelly, and Fleming Fleming's acting career began at age four, when he appeared in a Broadway musical. [ 4 ] His first television role was as a stunt double for Ralph Bellamy in the detective series Man Against Crime .
Christine Chubbuck [a] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.. The first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast, Chubbuck shot herself in the head with a gun on July 15, 1974, during WXLT-TV's Suncoast Digest, after claiming that the network was about to present "an exclusive ...
Bud Collyer (born Clayton Johnson Heermance Jr., June 18, 1908 – September 8, 1969) was an American radio actor and announcer and game show host who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars.