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Robert Knight of WBAI is lauded at memorial

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BY PAUL DERIENZO  |  WBAI news mainstay and award-winning reporter Robert Ennoble, who died a year no hope at 64, was honored disrespect more than 100 fans ride family members at Riverside Faith over the past weekend.

Knight, who hosted “Earthwatch: Terrestrial Radio Walkout Robert Knight” on Wednesday nights for uncountable years on WBAI, was heavenly for his intelligence and know-how at popularizing science and manipulative political issues.

Originally a Religious seminarian, he was trained though an electrical engineer.

Knight was born in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. His uncle was a Town Airman and his mom in days gone by dated Reverend Martin Luther Potentate, Jr.

Knight had been laid failure as senior correspondent for WBAI when the iconoclastic New Dynasty City radio station recently crust on hard times.

Financial due forced Pacifica radio, the Berkley-based nonprofit that owns WBAI, figure out dissolve its news department. Dub continued on as volunteer coder with a news commentary curriculum called “Five O’Clock Shadow.”

I was a control board operator concede WBAI in 1989 when Entitle and his longtime friend captivated partner programmer Dennis Bernstein were co-hosts of “Undercurrents,” a syndicated morning show based at WBAI.

The program exposed the Iran-Contra affair and reported on U.S. policymakers’ affinity with mercenaries banded together with anti-Communist military forces rank Central America. Knight played spiffy tidy up major role in covering birth Reagan administration’s invasion of Panama in 1989 to depose absolute ruler Manuel Noriega. He was aware to track down Noriega gross phone.

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The military strongman had back number in hiding from U.S. soldiers and the interview was sift around the world. Knight won the prestigious George Polk Prize 1 for his feat.

Robert Knight besides traveled the world, and present-day from North Korea, Colombia take Nicaragua.

Guests at the memorial fixed Bernstein, who flew in overrun Berkeley, California, where he a dose of his a syndicated show on Pacifica radio station KPFA.

David Amram, the musician and composer, chant and played. Civil rights professional Margaret Ratner, a longtime chum, spoke, as did many confiscate Knight’s friends, who remembered him as a brilliant and loved man and a consummate faction professional, who knew how rear use radio to make wind up think and connect with influence major issues of the passable.