Name Stan Chambers | Role Reporter | |
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Died February 13, 2015, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States Education University of Southern California |
LAObserved.com: Veteran KTLA reporter Stan Chambers
Stanley Holroyd "Stan" Chambers (August 11, 1923 – February 13, 2015) was an American television reporter who worked for KTLA in Los Angeles from 1947 to 2010.
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- LAObservedcom Veteran KTLA reporter Stan Chambers
- Stan chambers iii talks about the late ktla reporter and dad stan chambers
- Retirement years and death
- References
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Chambers was born in Los Angeles. His career began shortly after KTLA became the first commercially licensed TV station in the western United States. His April 1949 on-scene 27½-hour report of the unsuccessful attempt to rescue Kathy Fiscus from an abandoned well in San Marino, California prompted the sale of hundreds of TV sets in the Los Angeles area. His report has been recognized as the first live coverage of a breaking news story.
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In 1952 Chambers was involved in the first live telecast of an atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site. Among other stories he covered were the 1961 Bel Air fires, the 1963 Baldwin Hills Reservoir dam break, the 1971 Sylmar and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr., the 1965 Watts Riots, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Tate-LaBianca murders by the Manson Family, and the Hillside Strangler. Chambers broke the story on the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Department officers.
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Chambers earned several Emmy Awards, Golden Mike Awards, LA City and County Proclamations, an LA Press Club Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His grandson, Jaime Chambers, became a reporter at KTLA in 2003, and now works at KSWB-TV (Fox-5) in San Diego.
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Stan chambers iii talks about the late ktla reporter and dad stan chambers
Retirement years and death
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Chambers retired on August 11, 2010 on his 87th birthday, marking 63 years as a reporter at KTLA.
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He died on February 13, 2015 at his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles at the age of 91.
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Chambers was predeceased by his first wife Beverly, who died of cancer in 1989. He was survived by his second wife GiGi, 11 children, 38 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
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Stan Chambers is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California, beside his beloved wife Beverly.
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