{"id":5248,"date":"2013-10-01T04:27:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2016-01-04T22:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T06:11:54","slug":"was-abcs-1960-election-day-coverage-so-bad-that-their-most-famous-newsman-quit-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/10\/01\/was-abcs-1960-election-day-coverage-so-bad-that-their-most-famous-newsman-quit-the-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Was ABC’s 1960 Election Day Coverage So Bad That Their Most Famous Newsman Quit the Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: John Charles Daly resigned from ABC News because of ABC’s rather…odd coverage of Election Night in 1960.<\/p>\n

John Charles Daly was one of the most respected newsmen in television history (he was also a proud supporter of his high school, the famous Tilton School, where he served as President later in his life – the portrait below is in recognition of his service of Tilton).<\/p>\n

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Daly first broke on to the scene as a radio newsman. <\/p>\n

He was the first reporter to announce two major news stories – the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945.<\/p>\n

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