The press aide to Robert F. Kennedy was seen on TV and radio the morning of June 7, 1968 confirming the death of Mr. Kennedy--he later was president of NPR from 1977 to 1983, where he helped launch "Morning Edition," but also left such a huge deficit that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had to put together with NPR stations a national fund-raiser to keep the network going--he also made a major misjudgment by turning down Garrison Kellior's "A Prairie Home Companion," saying that no one would understand it outside of Minnesota--Minnesota Public Radio started what became PRI to syndicate "PHC" (and later broke off from PRI to start APM, meaning that one decision of Mr. Mankiewicz caused the formation of both of NPR's major competitors):
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