Jack Perkins (born December 28, 1933, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American reporter, commentator, war correspondent, and anchorman. Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A war correspondent is a Journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. He has been dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by the Associated Press. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio
Jack Perkins has appeared on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show, and on A&E as host of Biography. NBC Nightly News is the flagship evening news program for NBC News and broadcasts from the GE Building, Rockefeller Center in New York City. Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. A&E is a cable and Satellite television network with headquarters in Manhattan and offices in Stamford, Atlanta, Biography is a Documentary television series. Originally produced by CBS in 1962 and hosted by Mike Wallace, the A&E Network He currently hosts A Gulf Coast Journal, a weekly magazine show which airs on Tampa, Florida PBS affiliate WEDU-TV. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the WEDU is a community-owned PBS television station licensee that serves 16 counties of west central Florida including the cities of Tampa Clearwater St He also hosts and narrates special programs on Chattanooga, Tennessee PBS affiliate WTCI-TV.
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' son, Eric Perkins, has followed his father into journalism, serving as a sports anchor in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at its NBC affiliate, KARE-TV. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's KARE, channel 11 is an NBC -affiliated television station licensed to Minneapolis Minnesota, and serving the Minneapolis- St
Parodies
Perkins is also a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, on which his Biography introductions have been parodied several times. Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American Cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced MST3K series host and head writer Michael J. Nelson played the part of Perkins, depicting him as a somewhat scatter-minded man prone to long, meandering, name-dropping rambles about nothing in particular. Michael John Nelson (born October 11, 1964 in St Charles Illinois) is an American Comedian and Writer, most famous for
He was similarly spoofed by Darrell Hammond on Saturday Night Live, who played Perkins as a sarcastic alcoholic while hosting Biography. Darrell Hammond (born October 8, 1955) is an American Comedian who has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live (SNL Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions
External links
- Jack Perkins official website
- Jack Perkins at the Internet Movie Database
- Jack Perkins at TV.com