NBC 5 Anchor Reporter Dick Johnson Passes Away

NBC 5 Anchor Reporter Dick Johnson Passes Away

Dick Johnson moved to NBC 5 in the fall of 2002 to co-stay NBC 5 News Today following 20 years as a grapple and journalist at ABC 7 Chicago.

Long-lasting NBC 5 co-grapple and correspondent Dick Johnson, whose vocation in Chicago TV news coverage spread over almost 40 years, has died, his family affirmed. He was 66 years of age.

Dick, whose inviting grin and kind aura were as much signs of his character as his long-standing ability in news, most as of late co-tied down NBC 5's end of the week evening broadcasts and announced for the weekday 10 p.m. news.

Dick was being treated at a medical clinic in northern Michigan the most recent a few days for inconveniences identified with a respiratory condition, as indicated by his family. He deserts his better half and three developed kids, just as his newsroom family thus numerous in the news coverage field who have gained from him.

He moved to NBC 5 in the fall of 2002 to co-stay NBC 5 News Today from Studio 5, Chicago's first road side studio, following 20 years as a grapple and correspondent at ABC 7 Chicago.

Among innumerable honors, Dick got national and territorial Emmys for his work, just as a duPont-Columbia Award and Peabody Award.

Before making Chicago his home in 1982, Dick moored the 5 p.m. news at KDFW-TV in Dallas where he was likewise a political correspondent. He started his revealing profession in Indianapolis at WTHR-TV.

Prior in his profession, Dick was ready Air Force Two with then-Vice President George H.W. Hedge during the death endeavor on President Ronald Reagan. He secured the arrival of the Iranian prisoners at West Point, Ryan White's brave battle with AIDS, the starvation in Ethiopia, the fight to assemble Comiskey Park and the United Center, and the battle over Chicago school change.

Dick broke the account of the Great Loop Flood, secured the assault preliminary of fighter Mike Tyson and revealed the Chicago association in the homicide binge of Andrew Cunanan. He has written about political races of each sort, from president to civic chairman.

Dick has likewise showed up on NBC's "Chicago Fire," the film "Barbershop 2" and the 2009 film "Chicago Overcoat."

While acquiring a degree in political theory at DePauw University, Dick filled in as news executive of its radio broadcast WGRE. All the more as of late, he was executive of the Board of External Advisors for DePauw's Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media.