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Word came today of the death of Dick Cottam, who for many years broadcast from this booth at the back of the newsroom at The Columbia Daily Tribune, at 7th & Cherry Streets in Columbia, Mo. Reading the news is Eric Engberg, later of CBS News Cottam was the first radio guy I ever met in person, when I was a tiny kid and he was covering the Cosmopolitan Club's annual Pancake Day. Engberg replaced Cottam as news director when Cottam went to NBC.

I shot this one bright Friday morning, then took the film to the paper. I was 10 years old. There was a lot of racial tension at the time, and the Browns were the lone black family in the immediate neighborhood. Whether it was because of race or just a prank was never determined, because the villain was never caught. I had to scan a clip here -- the negative and original print are long gone.