Bob Baram – WGBH Alumni Network

It was short, but what a ride!

January 25, 2011 |

From Dave Svens: This short film clip was taken during WGBH’s election coverage in November, 1966. Host Bob Baram is interviewing the newly elected US Senator from Massachusetts, Edward Brooke, who was the first African-American senator elected by popular vote.

Bob Baram Departs at 86

April 20, 2005 |

From the Boston Globe (excerpts) — 4/20/2005 Robert Baram was a journalistic jack-of-all-trades who wrote of life in the South during the early days of the civil rights movement, penned a syndicated column in Bay state politics in the 1950s and ’60s, and offered political commentary on WGBH-TV for many years. “He was a giant,”…