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Article: JOHN VAN VOORHEES: 1918-2007 LOCAL TV PIONEER SEEMED TO DO IT ALL BEHIND THE CAMERA AT KOMO/4.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- April 13, 2007
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Byline: CASEY McNERTHNEYP-I reporter
Don't get John Van Voorhees wrong, friends said. He was a straight-laced guy who followed directions.
The thing is, the television pioneer rarely needed them.
He used engineering intuition to build an FM radio before World War II. When color TV was the talk of his West Seattle neighborhood in the late 1950s, he didn't go out and buy one - he built one.
Van Voorhees was an engineering expert at KOMO/4 for decades and kept his love of electronics until his death April 2. He was 88.
KOMO began television broadcasts in December 1953, and Van Voorhees was a cameraman at Seafair hydroplane ...