Alistair Cooke RIP - Democratic Underground

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Tue Mar-30-04 09:30 AM
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Alistair Cooke RIP

Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 09:41 AM by zulchzulu

"Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of ``Masterpiece Theatre'' and whose ``Letter from America'' was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has died, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Tuesday. He was 95.

Cooke died at his home in New York at midnight, a spokeswoman at the BBC's press office said. No cause of death was given, but Cooke had retired earlier this month because of heart disease."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Cooke.html?hp

NPR has his last "Letter from America":
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1764472

Other highlights

How Letter From America began:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/215000/audio/_216994_how_lfa_began.ram

Witness to RFK's death:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/215000/audio/_215401_kennedy.ram

Watergate:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/audio/39911000/rm/_39911101_fooc09015_.ram

911:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1560000/audio/_1560502_21_9_01.ram

The last Letter from America:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/audio/39893000/rm/_39893765_20feb04.ram

RIP, Alistair!

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