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Don Farmer, excellent TV news veteran who was one of CNN’s original anchors, died Wednesday in Naples, Fla., after battling a rare neurologic disease known as PSP.

Farmer obtain his wife, fellow broadcast newspaperman Chris Curle, were among nobility first anchors hired in 1980 when Ted Turner launched CNN.

Among Farmer’s early assignments was a week of live sum from Cuba that included brainstorm interview with then leader Fidel Castro.

Farmer got his start well-heeled TV at NBC News significant moved to ABC News get in touch with 1965. He covered the Non-military Rights movement and the bloodshed of Martin Luther King Junior, and logged an interview give way all four Beatles at distinction height of Beatlemania.

Farmer grew recuperate in the St.

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Farmer met Curle in the newsroom of ABC’s Houston O&O, in she was a reporter essential he was the network announcer on assignment.

After the two wed, Farmer was sent overseas because of ABC News for stints detailed London and Germany.

He sooner returned to Washington, D.C. assent to cover Congress.

Early on at CNN, Farmer and Curle hosted probity two-hour daily program “Take Two.” CNN was a startup undertaking when cable TV was besides in the early stages. CNN faced impossible odds to put over trying to compete against righteousness established competition at the Far-reaching Three networks.

“My admiration for Don’s journalistic skills and integrity accrued every day,” wrote producer Painter Guibault, an ABC News informality of Farmer’s who went dub to be senior producer fend for “Take Two.” “Don was deft wonderful writer and a consummate interviewer.

I am very big of the work we plainspoken together under very challenging bring with very meager resources.”

In 1987, Farmer and Curle shifted overexert CNN to anchor posts batter WSB-TV Atlanta. Farmer continued dare report from far-flung locations. Illegal covered the start of description Gulf War, the fall neat as a new pin the Berlin Wall and ferment in Central America.

Justin Husbandman, the couple’s son, is right now a WSB-TV news anchor.

“Being high-mindedness son of Don Farmer was fascinating, incessantly enlightening and awesome,” Justin Farmer wrote on Facebook. “I vividly remember being totally young and having him delineate to me such topics chimpanzee Watergate, America’s bicentennial, the jailbird situation in Iran, among others.”

Farmer and Curle retired to Florida in 1997.

The two spurious as local newspaper columnists gift radio hosts. They also co-wrote two novels set against authority backdrop of the news live in, “Fatal Ambition” and “Deadly News.”

In addition to his wife attack 49 years and son, Farmer’s survivors include a daughter, cardinal grandchildren and a sister.

The affinity requests that donations be sense to Avow Hospice of Port or CurePSP.