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Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States, McGee was a news reporter for NBC beginning in the mid-1950s. He had a great talent for descriptive language, giving viewers a word picture of the day's events. NBC News's Chet Huntley broke the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination, and McGee was on the phone from Dallas giving an account of this and was on air for 45 hours able to report without a script. In the early 1960's, he was also a news reporter on the NBC radio show Monitor. Downtown Oklahoma City The State Capitol of Oklahoma From The South Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... NBC News is the news service of NBC, one of the big three nationwide broadcast networks in the United States. ... Chet Huntley (December 10, 1911 - March 20, 1974) was an American television newscaster. ... Downtown Dallas City nickname: Fashion City Location in the state of Texas Counties Dallas County Collin County Denton County Mayor Laura Miller Area   â€“Land   â€“Water 385. ...

In 1970, he was a co-anchor with John Chancellor on NBC Nightly News and in 1971, he moved to The Today Show, replacing Hugh Downs, who'd hosted the show since 1962. McGee moved the Today Show into a more serious news presentation. He co-hosted the show with Barbara Walters, but insisted on opening and closing the show by himself. He remained on the air until April 1974, when he took off because he was ill. It turned out to be bone cancer, which he succumbed to less than two weeks after his last Today broadcast. He was replaced by another Oklahoma native, Jim Hartz, who co-hosted the show with Walters until 1976. John Chancellor (July 14, 1927 - July 12, 1996) was an American journalist. ... Today (commonly referred to as The Today Show) is a morning news and talk show airing on the NBC television network in the United States. ... Hugh Downs (born February 14, 1921 in Akron, Ohio) is an American television host. ... Barbara Walters, was host of 20/20 and The View. Recently, Walters stepped down to focus on her Barbara Walters Specials Barbara Walters (born September 25, 19291) is an American media personality known for her many years as the first woman network news anchor, on ABC News starting in 1976. ... Oklahoma is a South Central state of the United States (with strong southern, western and midwestern influences) and its U.S. postal abbreviation is OK; others abbreviate the states name Okla. ...

External links

• United Streaming, a web page which provides a show hosted by McGee