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WGBH Alumni Loose a Dear Friend: Bill Heitz, BU Class of ’57-’58

By Jay Collier | August 23, 2002 |

From the Chicago Tribune Bill Heitz, who helped teach amateur antique enthusiasts about auction etiquette for Home & Garden Television, won Emmy awards while producing Sunday Night Specials for NBC, and once was tear-gassed while directing coverage of the 1968 Democratic Convention, died of cancer, Thursday, Aug. 29, in his Northwest Side home. He was…