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Legendary ABC News anchor and reporter Tom Jarriel, who gained prominence for his coverage of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination and the Richard Nixon administration, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 89. Jarriel’s storied career spanned nearly 40 years after he joined the network in 1965, covering MLK’s murder three years later.

Ex-Shreveporter Tom Jarriel retires from ABC News today Staff and Wire Reports Posted on October 11, 2002 Former Shreveporter Tom Jarriel, the ABC 20/20 correspondent whose reporting on the plight of Romanian orphans led to thousands of adoptions, retires today after 38 years with the network. Jarriel - a native of LaGrange, Ga.(west of Atlanta), and a graduate of C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport - returned here last month to accept the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's "Tex" McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism. While here, Jarriel also was inducted into the Walk of Fame on Shreveport's riverfront. "It...