About Roosevelt Toston
Born 1942. Roosevelt Toston is an American writer and broadcast journalist.
Roosevelt Toston is an author and former Las Vegas news reporter and anchor (1970–1975). Toston worked for the local NBC affiliate, KORK TV, Channel 3 (now KVBC) from 1970–1972 and the local CBS affiliate, KLAS Channel 8 from 1972-1975. Toston was the city's first African-American news anchor. After his career in broadcasting, Toston served as a marketing executive for The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority from 1975-2004. Toston's autobiography, Beating the Odds, illustrates his life from his childhood in Epps, Louisiana to the present.
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American television reporter
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Roosevelt Toston was born on 7 May 1942 in Louisiana.
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