Elizabeth Farnsworth
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Elizabeth Farnsworth (born Elizabeth Fink) is an American television news anchorwoman.
Born in 1943 Elizabeth Fink in Topeka, Kansas, to a family of farmers, teachers and railroad workers.
She is a graduate of Middlebury College, and earned an M.A. in Latin American History from Stanford University and lived in Peru and Chile for extended periods. Farnsworth is an expert on South America.
In 1984 she became a contributing correspondent to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, later known as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. In 1995 she became chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor, and in 1999 became senior correspondent and head of the San Francisco office.
She is married to attorney Charles Farnsworth and has two children and two grandchildren, and currently resides in Berkeley, California.
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- Off-Camera: Elizabeth Farnsworth. Online NewsHour. Retrieved on 2006-05-08.
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