Norman Reade DePoe (4 May 1917 – 13 March 1980) was an American-born Canadian reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for eight years in the 1960s covering national and international affairs.
[1] Born in Portland, Oregon, he arrived in Canada at age 6, attended the University of British Columbia and then the University of Toronto after serving "as a signals corps captain in Italy and northwest Europe during WWII.
"[1] After joining the CBC news service in 1948 he was a creator of its television news broadcast in the following decade,[1] and a household name.
"He set standards that proved enduring"[1] though his fame was primarily in the 1960s[1][2] and he died a decade later at age 62.
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