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Woodie Assaf. Woodrow Assaf (March 15, 1917 − November 13, 2009) [1] was an American weatherman who worked for many years in Jackson, Mississippi. He worked at WLBT, the NBC television network affiliate in Jackson, from 1953 to 2001, and after his retirement he was reported to be the weatherman with the second longest tenure at the same ...
WLBT (channel 3) is a television station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Television, which also operates American Spirit Media –owned Fox affiliate WDBD (channel 40) and Vicksburg -licensed MyNetworkTV outlet WLOO (channel 35) under shared services agreements (SSAs).
WAPT began producing local news in early 1971. Bert Case was the first news director; he went on to a 40-year career at WLBT when he left in 1974. [32] Dick Thames, the first sports anchor, died in a 1972 plane crash as he was preparing a news story; footage of the crash was filmed by a WAPT cameraman. [33]
0744-9526. Website. clarionledger .com. The Clarion Ledger is an American daily newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the second-oldest company in the state of Mississippi, and is one of the few newspapers in the nation that continues to circulate statewide. It is an operating division of Gannett River States Publishing Corporation, owned by ...
Frank Ervin Melton (March 19, 1949 – May 7, 2009) was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, United States, from 4 July 2005 until his death on 7 May 2009.Melton, an African American, defeated the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. Melton won 63 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary against Johnson, who had served two terms.
WJTV signed-on January 20, 1953, as Mississippi's first television station, airing an analog signal on UHF channel 25. It was owned by the Hederman family, publishers of Jackson's morning and afternoon newspapers—The Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News, respectively—and was a primary CBS affiliate and secondary DuMont Television Network affiliate.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced via a Thursday press release that the department will provide "technical assistance" to the Jackson Police Department and the Hinds County Coroner's Office ...
Texas Southern University ( JD) Chokwe Antar Lumumba (born March 29, 1983) is an American attorney, activist, and politician serving as the 53rd mayor [ 1] of Jackson, Mississippi, [ 2] the 7th consecutive African-American to hold the position. He was first elected in 2017. In the primary election, Lumumba soundly [ 3] won the Democratic ...