Bob Young (news anchor)

Bob Young
Born	(1923-11-07)November 7, 1923 Covington, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	January 19, 2011(2011-01-19) (aged 87) Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Journalist

Robert H. "Bob" Young (November 7, 1923 – January 19, 2011)^[1]^[2] was a television news journalist for ABC News. He served as the anchor of The ABC Evening News (now known as World News Tonight) 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.

After leaving ABC, Young went to WCBS-TV in New York City where he anchored the 11:00 p.m. newscast until 1971. He later returned to radio news anchoring at New York's all-news WINS (AM), NBC Radio News and UPI Audio. He then turned to public relations work.

Young died on January 19, 2011 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, at the age of 87.

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Bob Young reports Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination

Preceded by Peter Jennings	ABC Evening News Bob Young 1967–1968	Succeeded by Frank Reynolds

Anchors of ABC World News Tonight

H. R. Baukhage Pauline Frederick Leo Cherne John Daly Don Goddard John Daly Bill Shadel Bill Lawrence John Cameron Swayze Ron Cochran Peter Jennings Bob Young Frank Reynolds Howard K. Smith Harry Reasoner Barbara Walters Frank Reynolds Max Robinson Peter Jennings Bob Woodruff Elizabeth Vargas Charles Gibson Diane Sawyer David Muir

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