Black Network: Today's People
o Max Robinson, America's first black network television anchor, said he knows people think his illness might be AIDS, but he refuses to discuss it. "I take the position that my health is a private matter," he told The Washington Post in an interview at his home in Chicago. Asked if he were terminally ill, the 49-year-old Robinson replied, "We all are." Robinson has had a up-and-down career since he became an anchorman in 1969. He left...
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MAX ROBINSON, 1st BLACK NETWORK NEWS ANCHOR, DIES
WASHINGTON -- Max Robinson, who became the first black news anchorman on American network television but soon saw his life beset by personal and professional problems, died Tuesday at 49.Robinson succumbed to complications of AIDS, said Tonya Swanson, a spokeswoman for Howard University Hospital. A family spokesman, Roger Wilkins, said Robinson had been ill for more than a year and had been bedridden for a month. Earlier this year, Robinson had lost considerable weight and been forced to...
Black Network: Max Robinson Dies - Pioneer Anchorman
Washington Max Robinson, the controversial and troubled television newsman who became the nation's first black network anchorman, died yesterday. Before his death at age 49 at Howard University Hospital in Washington from the complications of AIDS, his family would not comment on reports he had the fatal disease. But shortly after his death, United Press International quoted a family friend, Roger Wilkins, as saying that Robinson's wish was that his death be used to...
Max Robinson, 49; was first as black network TV anchor
Max Robinson, 49, who became the first black news anchorman on U.S. network television but soon saw his life beset by personal and professional problems, died Tuesday. Robinson succumbed to complications of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, said Tonya Swanson, spokeswoman for Howard University Hospital. A family spokesman, Roger Wilkins, said Robinson had been ill for more than a year and had been bedridden a month.By this year, Robinson had lost considerable weight and been forced to...