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carbonel ([personal profile] carbonel) wrote2008-06-09 08:32 am
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RIP Jim McKay

He was a voice of my youth every Saturday ("the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat"), and my favorite announcer every time the Olympics came around. It was Jim McKay's voice that I remember saying "They're all gone" in Munich in 1972.

And now he's gone.
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[identity profile] erikvolson.livejournal.com 2008-06-09 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I had to pause a minute when I heard.

A good voice, and a good announcer.
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[identity profile] xinef.livejournal.com 2008-06-09 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I had a similar reaction when I read his obit in our local paper over the weekend.
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