Bill Ryan

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Bill Ryan (right, with Frank McGee) on November 22, 1963
Bill Ryan (right, with Frank McGee) on November 22, 1963

Bill Ryan (full name William Emmett Ryan III) (April 4, 1926February 18, 1997) was an American broadcast journalist with the NBC television network and its owned and operated local station WNBC-TV in New York City for 26 years, and also served for a year (1970-1971) as news anchor at WOR-TV.

He is probably best remembered for anchoring NBC's coverage of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, along with Chet Huntley and Frank McGee.