Nationality Canadian Occupation Reporter | Years active 1930s–1989 Name Gwyn Thomas | |
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Died May 5, 2010 (aged 96)Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||
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Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas (August 16, 1913 – May 5, 2010) was a crime reporter with CFRB and the Toronto Star.
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Born in Toronto, Thomas began his news career as a newsboy at the corner of Bathurst Street and Bloor Street in 1925. After one year of high school, Thomas was hired by the Toronto Star as a copyboy in 1929. He worked his way as a general reporter in the early 1930s to becoming the paper's crime reporter by 1939. In the 1960s, Thomas entered a new medium by becoming a radio crime reporter on CFRB.
Thomas' career involved covering the minor criminal activities in Toronto's suburbs, but also famous criminal stories:
Retired in 1989, Thomas died at a long-term care facility in North York at the age of 96.
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