When this popped up on my email it just showed Lloyd Dob...Sigh. I was really bummed at the thought of John Cusack’s passing so young. Then I opened and read it and Lloyd Dobyns wasn’t young, but I’m still bummed.
Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS On Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 11:14 AM, kbrabant via World News Now Discussion List <wnndl@googlegroups.com> wrote: Incredible sadness consumes me. I cannot tell you how much Dobyns and Ellerbee on Overnight made my late nights (after I got off work) more livable. He was a great, period, end of story. May his memory be a blessing to all. And so it goes, Kevin Brabant -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Speer <parkbench...@gmail.com> To: wnndl@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Aug 25, 2021 12:09 pm Subject: [DEADPOOL] Lloyd Dobyns. Can't do clever on this one. Sigh. https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/lloyd-dobyns-jr-peabody-award-winning-tv-newsman-dead-at-82/ MEBANE, N.C. — Lloyd Dobyns Jr., an award-winning NBC News correspondent who reported from places around the world and who anchored an innovative US television newscast in the early 1980s, has died, his family said. He was 85.Ken Dobyns said in a statement that his father died Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, northwest of Raleigh. He said his father suffered complications from a series of strokes.Dobyns worked for NBC News in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and was known in America for working with Linda Ellerbee on the late-night news series “NBC News Overnight” in 1982 and 1983, according to a statement released by Ken Dobyns and online with a Raleigh funeral home.“He was a friend, teacher, trouble-maker, and a world-class journalist,” Ellerbee said in the statement. “I shall miss him more than I can say.”[snip] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAEKrPuR_cAFuS-k_Rxh-K%2B%3DST5ppNOTyGKVdFmPdAsBeJQH%2B5Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/632419001.407953.1629908056440%40mail.yahoo.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/1765538476.647188.1629923462326%40mail.yahoo.com.