Richard Harkness

[4] Harkness also anchored a Monday-Friday 11:45-noon (Eastern Time) newscast from Washington on NBC.

[6] On November 8, 1960, Harkness joined newsmen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley at the anchor desk for the NBC News coverage of the Kennedy-Nixon election night returns.

In the 1960s, he also did news and commentary on the local newscasts of WRC-TV, NBC's owned-and-operated station in Washington, D. C. Harkness, retiring from NBC in 1972, later joined President Gerald R. Ford's anti-drug abuse program as press representative.

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