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Robert P Rickman

Is a 70-year-old Boomer who has spent decades working in Radio and TV. Robert managed two TV news departments on the west coast and was also the evening anchor for both stations.

He has also worked at several news stations as an editor, anchor, and reporter. Robert is now living in Carbondale, Illinois, the home of Southern Illinois University, one of the top Radio and TV schools in the country during the 1970s.

OK, Boomer originates from WDBX radio in Carbondale, Il.

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$\"murfreesboro_EF4_DNJ.jpg\"$ This is an EF4 tornado that hit a suburb of Nashville, TN in 2009 I was on the air at a Nashville news station with continuous coverage of the disaster most of the next day. It was horrible!

But as Mark Twain allegedly said, \"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme!

Fourteen years later history rhymed, but not only in Tennessee.

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But as Mark Twain allegedly said, \"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme!

Fourteen years later history rhymed, but not only in Tennessee.

The Worst Day of my Broadcast Career

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