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Frank Field
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Born
March 30
,
1923
·
Brooklyn, New York
Died
July 1
,
2023
·
Boca Raton, Florida, USA
(Undisclosed)
Birth name
Franklyn Feld
Mini Bio
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
The NewsCenter (1974)
. He was married to Joan Kaplan Field. He died on July 1, 2023 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
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Joan Kaplan Field
(1948 - 2023) (her death, 3 children)
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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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