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- Birth nameFranklyn Feld
- Frank Field was born on March 30, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a writer, known for Health Field (1979), Not for Women Only (1968) and WNBC-TV News (1941). He was married to Joan Kaplan Field. He died on July 1, 2023 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
- SpouseJoan Kaplan Field(1948 - 2023) (her death, 3 children)
- Currently resides in Boca, Florida [February 2020].
- Began his career in New York at WNBC in 1958 as a meteorologist and later a health and science reporter.
- He introduced the NBC audience to the Heimlich maneuver before the medical establishment embraced it.
- His son Storm and daughter Allison also became television meteorologists.
- In 1983, in a daring television news broadcast, he covered a kidney transplant live - from first incision to final suture.
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