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Russ Ewing
1923–2019
United States
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Biography
Russell H. Ewing (December 28, 1923 – June 25, 2019) was an American broadcast journalist in Chicago from 1967 to the late 1990s. Working for WLS-TV (ABC affiliate) and WMAQ-TV (NBC affiliate), he established a reputation as an investigative journalist, and became known as a go-between who negotiated more than 115 surrenders to police of wanted felons, often wanted for murder.
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