Frank Reynolds (November 29, 1923, East Chicago, Indiana – July 20, 1983) was an American television journalist for ABC.
He is best remembered as anchor of the ABC Evening News from 1968 to 1970 and later as Washington D.C.-based co-anchor of World News Tonight from 1978 to 1983. During the Iran hostage crisis, he began the 30-minute late-night program America Held Hostage, which later was renamed Nightline.
Frank Reynolds attended Wabash College...
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Frank Reynolds (November 29, 1923, East Chicago, Indiana – July 20, 1983) was an American television journalist for ABC.
He is best remembered as anchor of the ABC Evening News from 1968 to 1970 and later as Washington D.C.-based co-anchor of World News Tonight from 1978 to 1983. During the Iran hostage crisis, he began the 30-minute late-night program America Held Hostage, which later was renamed Nightline.
Frank Reynolds attended Wabash College and graduated in 1946. Reynolds served in the United States Army during the Second World War; he was a Staff Sergeant and won the Purple Heart. At his death, President and Mrs. Reagan, family friends, arranged for his burial at Arlington National Cemetery. President and Mrs. Reagan attended the funeral. Reynolds was a television anchor in Chicago, first on WBBM-TV, the CBS Network affiliate, and later on WBKB-TV, the ABC Network affiliate (later redesignated as WLS-TV).. He joined ABC in 1965.
By 1968, he became co-anchor of the evening ABC...
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