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Article: Roger Ailes.(Fox News Network L.L.C.)(Occupation overview)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- October 20, 2008
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Marisa Guthrie
Clever, combative, competitive, and his Fox News is a cable winner
In April 1970 Roger Ailes was sent on a secret military transport to Hawaii. As President Richard Nixon's television coordinator, Ailes was dispatched to construct for the cameras what was expected to be a tragic homecoming for the astronauts of the ill-fated Apollo 13.
"I was advised that they would probably die," Ailes recalls. "So I had to set up a funeral service in a hangar while I was setting up the welcome-home ceremony on the tarmac."
The Apollo 13 astronauts survived their harrowing journey back to earth. But for Ailes, the event had a different ...