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John LaBounty, 79, 40 years at WGBH as Engineer, Supervisor
From Gail Martin — 3/30/2007
We have received the sad news that longtime WGBH engineer John LaBounty died yesterday at Emerson Hospital in his hometown of Concord, MA....
John joined WGBH, then just Radio, in January of 1952 when WGBH was located on Mass. Ave. in Cambridge. He made the move to TV shortly thereafter and served as Video Tape Supervisor and Maintenance Supervisor in his career that spanned 40 years. Joe Pugliesi, recalls that "in the 1970's, John assisted in the development of open captioning for the ABC Evening News and then the line 21 closed captioning that we use today" and that "John worked on the original French Chef series with Julia Child."
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