Greg Kelly
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| Greg Kelly | |
| Born | December 17, 1968  Garden City, New York |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Fordham University |
| Occupation | Television personality/host, Marine |
| Employers | Fox News Channel |
| Website Fox News profile |
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Gregory Raymond Kelly (born December 17, 1968) is a journalist for the Fox News Channel. He serves as a Fox News Correspondent. Kelly is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.
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[edit] Journalist
Kelly is a host of Fox News Live Weekend on Fox News Channel. Previously, Kelly was a a co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend and a White House Correspondent for Fox News.
In 2003, he provided extensive coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an embedded journalist with the United States Army's 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade.
He received a minor shrapnel wound to the face when a mortar round exploded near him while crossing the Euphrates River with the 3rd Infantry Division on March 31, 2003.
He was the first television journalist to broadcast live pictures of U.S. military forces reaching Baghdad on April 5, 2003. Information Minister Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, a.k.a. Baghdad Bob, was shown at one of his press conferences saying that Coalition forces were not in Baghdad, Fox News was showing, in split screen, reporter Greg Kelly riding a tank through the city
Two days later, Kelly captured another exclusive during the storming of Saddam Hussein's presidential palace.
His reporting assignments have brought him back to Iraq numerous times, as well as to Gaza, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
Before joining Fox News, Kelly was a political affairs reporter for NY1, in New York City, where he covered the 2001 mayoral campaign, and provided extensive coverage from Ground Zero on September 11, 2001.
Prior to his stint at NY1, Kelly served as an anchor for the morning news program at WIVT-TV (ABC) in Binghamton, New York, where he secured an exclusive interview with then President Bill Clinton.
[edit] Military career
Kelly currently holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.[1]
During his nine-year active duty military service Kelly was an A/V 8-B Harrier jump jet pilot assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 211, the "Wake Island Avengers". Kelly amassed over 150 aircraft carrier landings and flew over Iraq in Operation Southern Watch, enforcing the United Nations imposed No-Fly Zone.
[edit] Personal
Kelly is a native of Garden City, New York. His father, Raymond W. Kelly, is the current and former New York City Police Commissioner. Kelly graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. While attending Fordham, Kelly worked at WFUV as an on air reporter.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Biography at Fox News
- Greg Kelly Unofficial Fan Site
- Official Web Site of Marine Attack Squadron 211
