Biography

Frank McGee was born on September 12, 1915 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Power for People (1968), 1960 Presidential Debates (1960) and Sunday Showcase (1959). He was married to Nialta Sue Beaird. He died on April 17, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA.

Frank McGee was a reporter for NBC News starting with the mid-1950s when he worked at the Montgomery, Alabama bureau. He, along with Chet Huntley and WNBC-TV reporter Bill Ryan broke the news to the American public of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963 - mostly repeating the words of field reporter Robert McNeil via telephone from Dallas, due to an audio fault in the New York studio. From 1971 until his death due to bone marrow cancer in 1974 (age 58) he served as co-host with Barbara Walters of the NBC Today show. A traditional, strait-laced, old-fashioned reporter and newscaster, McGee, like his contemporaries, had a great talent for descriptive language, painting visual pictures of events in the news, in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow. He also served as newscaster for the landmark NBC Radio program "Monitor" in the early 1960s.