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Missing

March 13, 2019by Tom DeVries 1 Comment

A bit more than 25 years ago now I spent some time in Fargo ND working for America’s Most Wanted. The case in particular was a missing child named Jeanna […]

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journalism, missing

Jumping Off the Bridge

March 26, 2014by Tom DeVries Leave a comment

The New York paper (specifically our friend Carol Pogash) today reports that the people who run the Golden Gate Bridge will finally for heaven’s sake, install a suicide barrier.  The average last […]

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journalism, law & order

JFK

November 19, 2013by Tom DeVries Leave a comment

Today another story out there about who killed President Kennedy.  Fifty years ago.  Like maybe who or what did it is still alive and ready to confess.  Or that finally […]

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Family, journalism, Life

A Thanksgiving Tale

November 13, 2013by Tom DeVries Leave a comment

I got an assignment back then to do a Thanksgiving piece for NPR and soldiered off by phone and car to make a little radio story about turkeys.  They raise […]

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journalism

why I no longer work for NBC News ever

November 12, 2013by Tom DeVries Leave a comment

Back then, early oughts, I was field producing live shots for the Today Show.  Not much money, but kinda fun way to spend an early morning.  Usually pretty good stories, […]

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journalism, Life

Forest Fires

December 10, 2011by Tom DeVries Leave a comment

I remember being frightened, but I don’t think I was ever as afraid as I should have been.   Started fighting and covering wild fires in about 1973, first on […]

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journalism, Life

Night shift

December 10, 2011by Tom DeVries Leave a comment

The private plane went into the Lake Michigan trying to land on Christmas Eve.  I was working evenings, 6 to 2 AM so I was there when it happened and the city […]

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journalism, newspapers

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