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Zoey Tur
Hanna Zoey Tur (born Robert Albert Tur, June 8, 1960) is an American broadcast reporter and commercial pilot who operated the freelance news company Los Angeles News Service with fellow reporter and then-wife Marika Gerrard.
Born to a Jewish family, Tur dropped out of college at age 18 in 1978.
Tur's company Los Angeles News Service (LANS) was the first to use an AStar helicopter in a major city to cover breaking news, and the first to televise a high-speed police chase. In 1989, Tur used a helicopter to locate a camper in need of a kidney transplant. This incident was reenacted on the television program Rescue 911.[citation needed]
Tur and Marika Gerrard captured video of the attack on Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Tur successfully sued another news agency for copyright infringement for using their footage of the 1992 L.A. riots without authorization, and later attempted to sue YouTube for hosting the same video on its site.
Tur was the first to broadcast O. J. Simpson's slow-speed chase on June 17, 1994. As a team, Tur and Gerrard received three Television News Emmy Awards[failed verification] and Edward R. Murrow Awards[verification needed] for broadcast excellence, an Associated Press National Breaking News award; and The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Humanitarian Award.
In 1991, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revoked Tur's pilot's license for "reckless flying" after a complaint from the Los Angeles City Fire Department. In 1994, a California Superior Court ruled against the Los Angeles Fire Department for suborning perjury in the original FAA action, awarding $550,000 and ruling that "public employees are not immune from liability for malicious prosecution if they instigate the prosecution through fraudulent, corrupt or malicious misrepresentations".
Tur has been credited with locating seven missing aircraft.
In 2007, Tur hosted a documentary series on MSNBC called Why They Run. The show reported on why criminal suspects ran from police, and included interviews with those involved in police pursuits.
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Zoey Tur
Hanna Zoey Tur (born Robert Albert Tur, June 8, 1960) is an American broadcast reporter and commercial pilot who operated the freelance news company Los Angeles News Service with fellow reporter and then-wife Marika Gerrard.
Born to a Jewish family, Tur dropped out of college at age 18 in 1978.
Tur's company Los Angeles News Service (LANS) was the first to use an AStar helicopter in a major city to cover breaking news, and the first to televise a high-speed police chase. In 1989, Tur used a helicopter to locate a camper in need of a kidney transplant. This incident was reenacted on the television program Rescue 911.[citation needed]
Tur and Marika Gerrard captured video of the attack on Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Tur successfully sued another news agency for copyright infringement for using their footage of the 1992 L.A. riots without authorization, and later attempted to sue YouTube for hosting the same video on its site.
Tur was the first to broadcast O. J. Simpson's slow-speed chase on June 17, 1994. As a team, Tur and Gerrard received three Television News Emmy Awards[failed verification] and Edward R. Murrow Awards[verification needed] for broadcast excellence, an Associated Press National Breaking News award; and The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Humanitarian Award.
In 1991, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revoked Tur's pilot's license for "reckless flying" after a complaint from the Los Angeles City Fire Department. In 1994, a California Superior Court ruled against the Los Angeles Fire Department for suborning perjury in the original FAA action, awarding $550,000 and ruling that "public employees are not immune from liability for malicious prosecution if they instigate the prosecution through fraudulent, corrupt or malicious misrepresentations".
Tur has been credited with locating seven missing aircraft.
In 2007, Tur hosted a documentary series on MSNBC called Why They Run. The show reported on why criminal suspects ran from police, and included interviews with those involved in police pursuits.
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