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I wrote the introduction to Jim McKay's book and the one thing I wrote was that if I didn't have the job I have, I'd want his job. And I've never seen him better at what he does than in Munich, proving once and for all that a journalist is a journalist is a journalist and it doesn't matter if we're covering sports or fashion or war; that a learned, intelligent, well-read man as Jim is, was in ...
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Jim McKay, Longtime ABC Sportscaster, Is Dead
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... of the introduction. During his long broadcasting tenure, Mr. McKay received two Emmy Awards. In 1988, he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Mr. McKay covered the hostage situation at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, delivering the news that eleven Israeli hostages had been killed. “They’re all gone,” Mr. McKay said memorably. Looking back, Mr. McKay called that day the most important of his career. “Suddenly, as I was walking from our headquarters to the memorial service, I was given a yellow slip saying ‘You were a great credit to your medium … ...
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... , who always knew it was the athletes, not he, who was the star. And he was the right man for that awful time in Munich, 1972, when his "They're all gone" was all he could say, and all anyone could say. ESPN is describing him tonight as "the Walter Cronkite of sports," and that sounds right to me.
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Obituary: Reported on 1972 Munich tragedy -- Jim McKay, the veteran and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86.
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