[DEADPOOL] Lloyd Dobyns. Can't do clever on this one.

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Debbie Speer

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Aug 25, 2021, 12:09:39 PM8/25/21
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Sigh.


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.”

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kbra...@aol.com

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Aug 25, 2021, 12:14:22 PM8/25/21
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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


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danny burstein

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Aug 25, 2021, 12:19:43 PM8/25/21
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, Debbie Speer wrote:

> Sigh.
>
> https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/lloyd-dobyns-jr-peabody-award-winning-tv-newsman-dead-at-82/

"And so it goes".


kgba...@gmail.com

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Aug 25, 2021, 1:53:54 PM8/25/21
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https://youtu.be/xlJ2eOpG_xY

 

Dobyns and Ellerbee promoting Overnight.

 

Regards,

 

KGB

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Jim O'Connell

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Aug 25, 2021, 2:38:54 PM8/25/21
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He also was the host of, and reporter for, "Weekend", the news magazine that used to sub for SNL one weekend every month.

 

kgba...@gmail.com

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Aug 25, 2021, 2:48:30 PM8/25/21
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It actually preceded SNL by a year before alternating with it.

 

Regards,

 

KGB

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kbra...@aol.com

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Aug 25, 2021, 3:48:35 PM8/25/21
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Which was also fantastic!


wnnowbie

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Aug 25, 2021, 4:31:12 PM8/25/21
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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. 


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