NEWS ANCHOR
-WCBS TV local News- November 1, 1954- May 27,1960,
replacing Robert Trout, and replaced by Prescott Robinson.
ABC TV World News - June 4, 1962-January 29, 1965, replaced by Peter Jennings.
A report on the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign. Also, the United Nations debate on the Suez Canal crisis.
Ron Cochran, a former television and radio newsman worked with
CBS and ABC as a television anchor news journalist.
In the early 1960's, Cochran was an early evening news anchor for the ABC network, most remembered for covering the ABC TV network news related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963.
Previously, he was the host of ten minute evening news programs, Monday thru Saturday on WCBS-TV in New York from 1954 to 1960.
NOTE: Almost all of Ron Cochran's newscasts are NON extant in any broadcast form.