introducing Jim Hartz, Today Show with Barbara Walters in the mid-1970s, she died on April 17 in Fairfax County, Washington. He was 82 years old and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to his wife, Alexandra Dixon Hartz.
Harz was in the middle of his career when he joined. TodayUsing the low button style, which is the output of Walters’ low power button. He was 34 and was succeeded by Frank McGee, who died at the age of 58. Hartz was a WNBC reporter covering local news when he resigned.
Unified Today And he covered the end of the Vietnam War and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, as part of America’s Fifty Years Morning Show.
Harz was born on February 3, 1940, in Toulouse, Oklahoma, the fifth child of Reverend Marvin Dillard Harz and Helen Elvira (Potter) Harz, a servant of God.
After graduating from college, she was hired as a reporter for KOTV in Tulsa and hosted the channel’s morning show “Sun Up.” He moved there as a news director and was later discovered by NBC in New York.
She became the host of WNBC Evening News, the network’s flagship local station. for 1974, Today He came looking for it and took the coveted position next to Walters.
In 1976, Walters left ABC’s evening newscaster and took Jane Paul on board. His low style was considered Harz by the executives and they decided to bring in Tom Brockau to balance that out.
Harz then briefly worked as “host” but later moved to WRC, an NBC subsidiary in Washington DC, in 1976. He later worked with PBS and hosted the famous talk show “Over Easy” with actress Mary Martin. and “Innovation”, the weekly science program.
In the early 1990s, Hartz hosted Asia Now for PBS, a co-production with Japan NHK Public Broadcaster. Two years later, he became chairman of the Will Rogers Memorial Commission, which administers the Will Rogers Memorial in Clermont, Oklahoma, and the Will Rogers Birthplace in Oologha, Oklahoma.
Survivors include his wife Alexandra Dixon, two daughters Jana Hartz Maher and Nancy Hartz Cole, and six great-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One son, John Mitchell Hartz, died in 2015.
Source: Deadline
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