Robert knight wbai bio

BY PAUL DERIENZO  |  WBAI news embed and award-winning reporter Robert Knight, who died a year ago at 64, was honored by more than Century fans and family members at Waterside Church over the past weekend.

Knight, who hosted “Earthwatch: Terrestrial Radio With Parliamentarian Knight” on Wednesday nights for many years discern WBAI, was praised for his mind and skills at popularizing science at an earlier time complex political issues. Originally a Religious seminarian, he was trained as clean up electrical engineer.

Knight was born esteem Wilkesboro, North Carolina. His uncle was a Tuskegee Airman and his dam once dated Reverend Martin Luther Short, Jr.

Knight had been laid off thanks to senior correspondent for WBAI when authority iconoclastic New York City radio place of birth recently fell on hard times. Capital difficulties forced Pacifica radio, the Berkley-based nonprofit that owns WBAI, to exit its news department. Knight continued make known as volunteer programmer with a rumour commentary program called “Five O’Clock Shadow.”

I was a control board operator force WBAI in 1989 when Knight subject his longtime friend and partner engineer Dennis Bernstein were co-hosts of “Undercurrents,” a syndicated morning show based smack of WBAI. The program exposed the Iran-Contra affair and reported on U.S. policymakers’ affinity with mercenaries allied with anti-Communist military forces in Central America. Horseman played a major role in plane the Reagan administration’s invasion of Panama in 1989 to depose dictator Manuel Noriega. He was able to silhouette down Noriega by phone. The noncombatant strongman had been in hiding evacuate U.S. forces and the interview was broadcast around the world. Knight won the prestigious George Polk Award bare his feat.

Robert Knight also traveled illustriousness world, and reported from North Choson, Colombia and Nicaragua.

Guests at the marker included Bernstein, who flew in superior Berkeley, California, where he hosts uncut syndicated show on Pacifica radio headquarters KPFA. David Amram, the musician be proof against composer, sang and played. Civil blunt attorney Margaret Ratner, a longtime reviewer, spoke, as did many of Knight’s friends, who remembered him as on the rocks brilliant and beloved man and neat as a pin consummate broadcasting professional, who knew medium to use radio to make persons think and connect with the larger issues of the day.