Chris Borgen former detective, crime reporter, pased away
Jeanne Ketterer
Chris Borgen, former detective and crime reporter for local WCBS New York
City news (retired 1995) passed on Friday. His obit is in today's NYTimes,
funeral tom Thurs. Let's see if I have the link correct:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/obituaries/30BORG.html
And I don't know how to cut and paste, sorry. Maybe someone could help out,
I'd appreciate.
He was a really interesting person and passionate about his work. My
brother worked with him on many stories. Chris used to come to our house --
he was always so nice to me. And he had a wonderful voice - deep,
well-modulated.
There's another, longer obit and interview with his son, clearly proud of
his father, in the Bergen Record.
scroll down on left to obituaries, click and it'll show up in middle of
screen.
I felt sad yesterday bec it's another link w/my dad and family stuff gone
... yet reading the obit and story in the Bergen Record cheered me bringing
back nice memories. He was patient with a gawky teen-ager ...
Jeanne
Jeanne Ketterer
"Mike Burke" <miq...@pacific.net.au>
[snip]
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/obituaries/30BORG.html
> >
> >And I don't know how to cut and paste, sorry. Maybe someone could help
out,
> >I'd appreciate.
>
> Chris Borgen, 76, Detective Turned Reporter, Dies
> By THE NEW YORK TIMES
>
>
> hris Borgen, a former New York City police detective who was a news
> reporter on WCBS-TV in New York for nearly 30 years, died on Friday in
> Ridgewood, N.J. He was 76.
>
> The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, CBS announced.
>
> Mr. Borgen joined the station in 1966. His forte was breaking crime
> stories. On three occasions Mr. Borgen was called in by the police to
> help negotiate the release of hostages. He once helped persuade a
> woman who had just killed one child and was holding a knife to the
> throat of another to surrender by reciting the 23rd Psalm with her.
This happened in Spanish Harlem -- in a really rough tough area. It
was one of the first stories my brother did with him. This guy was fearless
pursuing a story. Amazing how calm he was in talking down people. Yet he
was also one to yell over the wall! pursuing some suspect or to get the
story, and my brother would look at the heavy portable camera (back then),
batteries, etc. and go, yeah, right. Some perps held some hostages in North
Jersey and requested Borgen come and hear them out. Lots of war stories. I
kind of pushed a lot of these stories and escapades way back to get through
the parental caretaking - both my father and brother did similar work, with
my brother often working with people my father worked with or started out
with.
Thanks, Mique!
Jeanne