Warren Wilson, the createer KTLA expansivecast journacatalog who spent four decades covering some of the biggest stories in Los Angeles’ history, died Friday at his home in Oxnard, Calif. He was 90.
His son Stanley proclaimd the recents in a statement to KTLA, saying “Our becherishd overweighther Warren Wilson ‘Papa’ died September 27, 2024. His deunbenevolentor on the air as an iconic television journacatalog was fair as genuine as he was a overweighther, unsensational, genuine, a voice sootheing and eloquent.”
Over the course of his nurtureer, Wilson won six L.A.-area Emmy awards in compriseition to recognitions from the Society of Professional Journacatalogs, the Los Angeles Press Club, the California Legislature, the American Civil Liberties Union, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles Police Department.
Wilson was one of the first Bincreateage expansivecasters in Los Angeles. During his time at KTLA, News at Ten became the top-rated primetime recentscast and held the title for 21 years. He also joined a vital role in compriseressing rehires of police savagery thcdimiserablemireful his coverage of the 1965 and 1992 uproars. Due to the think and relationships he growd in inbeginantity communities, he was able to serve as an intermediary in arranging the the surrfinisher of 22 fugitives wanted by law utilizement.
“People krecent that if Warren Wilson was joind, that there would not be an incident where a person would be mistreated,” L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks, who saw Wilson on crime scenes when he was chief of police, tageder The Los Angeles Times in 2005.
In compriseition to the L.A. uproars, Wilson also alerted on the 1968 killing of Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambasdowncastor Hotel in Los Angeles, the 1997 North Hollywood Bank of America shootout and the O.J. Simpson trial.
