Article: Pittsburgh announcer misses report on Ray's death


AP Online
04-24-1998
PITTSBURGH (AP) _ A Pittsburgh Pirates broadcaster broke into game coverage with the errant report that actor James Earl Jones had died.

Lanny Frattare said he misunderstood when his producer relayed of the news of the death of James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing Martin Luther King Jr. Frattare corrected the mistake shortly after it was made during KDKA-AM's coverage of Thursday's ...

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