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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Bob Butler, Jr.
Bob Butler, Jr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Butler, Bob, Jr., 1953- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Antioch, California 2013 November 6.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Broadcast journalist Bob Butler was born on June 5, 1953, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He received his A.A. degree from Chabot College in 1979, and his B.A. degree in broadcast journalism from San Francisco State University in 1994. He served in the U.S. Navy. Butler began his broadcast career interning at KCBS radio in 1981. He was promoted to fill-in reporter during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. He became the weekend morning reporter at KCBS-Radio in 1999, and covered local, national and international stories. In 2004, he became president of the Bay Area Black Journalists; and, in 2013, he was elected as 20th president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Butler was also an officer of the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists ( AFTRA). Butler lectured at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University, and worked on the Chauncey Baily Project as an investigative reporter from 2007 to 2011.
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