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Bob Petty
1940–2020
United States
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Biography
Robert Petty (November 26, 1940 – February 18, 2020) was an American television reporter and news anchor who spent nearly his entire career at Chicago's WLS-TV, retiring after 31 years with the station in 2002. Petty was born in Memphis, Tennessee. After graduating from Arizona State University in 1970, he became a general assignment reporter at WLS in 1971, becoming one of the station's first black reporters.
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