Ruth Ashton Taylor, Early Radio and TV Newswoman, Dies at 101

Ruth Ashton Taylor, who was the only woman on the CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s postwar radio documentary unit and was widely believed to be the first female newscaster in Los Angeles, died on Jan. 11 in San Rafael, Calif. She was 101. Her daughter Laurel Conklin confirmed the death, at an…

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