Jim Hartz, NBC News veteran and ‘Today’ host, dies at 82

Jim Hartz, an NBC News veteran who covered and co-hosted the space program for ten years. Today day Shaw died with Barbara Walters in the 1970s. He was 82 years old.

Harz died April 17 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Fairfax County Hospital, Virginia, said his wife, Alexandra.

Hartz defeated Tom Brockov and Tom Snyder as fellow Oklahoman teammate Frank McGee moved on. Today day In July 1974, McGee spent three years in the service before dying of bone cancer at age 52.

When Walters passed Today day In June 1976, to join ABC News – Jane Pauli replaced him – Hartz was dropped in favor of Brock a few months later. He spent a short time as a correspondent before leaving the network.

A Tulsa resident and pastor’s son, he worked for CBS subsidiary KOTV as a reporter and morning show host in his hometown when he joined New York’s WNBC-TV in 1964 at age 24 as one of the youngest newly recruited -arrived in the country.

In 1966-76, Harz covered all manned flights in the US space program, including the Apollo launches that sent the first astronauts to the moon.

then Today dayHartz co-hosted NBC’s WRC-TV in Washington, DC from 1977 to 1979, and co-starred in Hugh Downs with actress Mary Martin PBS. Simpler, By aging gracefully. He directed PBS’s science program. Innovation What.

The five-time Emmy winner also served as a visiting scientist at Vanderbilt University’s first correctional facility and was a long-time chairman of the Will Rogers Memorial Commission.

In addition to his wife of 42 years, his daughters Jeanne and Nancy and six grandchildren survived.