By Erik Pedersen
07.05.2020 - 05:47 / deadline.com
By Erik Pedersen
Managing Editor
Gerald Slater, who helped build PBS as one of its founding employees and later moved to WETA-TV, has died of coronavirus. He was 86.
Slater died April 24 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. He had been residing at a nearby assisted-living facility and also was battling bone cancer. His son, David Slater, announced the news on Facebook.
Slater began his TV career in 1961 as the head usher for The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS and rose through the ranks
By Erik Pedersen
By Bruce Haring
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Like most of us, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo have been sheltering-in-place at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Tom Tapp
The family of an elderly Covid-19 victim were forced to witness her final moments standing on a ladder looking over a care home fence.