Jack Perkins is an American reporter, commentator, war correspondent, and anchorman. He has been dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by the Associated Press. Perkins received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Case Western Reserve University in 1956. While at Case Western Reserve, Perkins joined the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. Jack Perkins has appeared on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show, and on A&E as host of Biography. He currently hosts A Gulf Coast Journal, a weekly magazine show which airs on Tampa, Florida PBS member station WEDU-TV. He also hosts and narrates special programs on Chattanooga, Tennessee PBS member station WTCI-TV. Perkins was formerly a news reporter for NBC affiliate KNBC, in Los Angeles, California. Currently, Perkins devotes a great deal of his time to creating original photography and poetry which he brings together in books, the most recent being Island Prayers: Photographs and Poems of Praise. Perkins's son, Eric Perkins, has followed his father into journalism, serving as Sports Director at KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate station in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. 

December 28th, 1933 in Cleveland  /  Died:   Aug 19th, 2019 - aged 85