Obituaries

Don Oliver, NBC correspondent was 76

By Kevin Roderick | May 29, 2013 10:51 PM

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don-oliver-grab.jpgDon Oliver covered the Vietnam War, the civil rights era and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King before coming to the NBC bureau in Burbank. He was with the network for 25 years. Oliver died last night, according to the report from Brian Williams on "NBC Nightly News."

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