Thomas Edwin Jarrell of LaGrange, Georgia, correspondent for American Broadcasting Company, ABC Television, has passed away at age 89.
Between the years 1964 and 2002, Thomas Edwin Jarrell was employed by the ABC network as a television news correspondent in the United States.
The year 2002 marked Jarrell’s retirement from the broadcasting industry. He passed away in October of 2024, when he was 89 years old. At the time of this report his cause of death was not disclosed by his family.
Almost immediately after that, he was hired by ABC to work as a White House correspondent throughout the administrations of both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the two presidents of the United States. Later on, in 1977, Jarrell became a co-anchor on the Saturday edition of ABC Evening News for a period of two years.
In 1979, he became an investigative correspondent for the newsmagazine 20/20, which is broadcast on the network. He explored topics such as the flaws in the American criminal justice system, the wasteful spending of the United States Department of Defense, and transportation accidents on that show as well as on other documentaries that were each an hour long. Because of his work, he was awarded ten Emmys this year.
Jarrell was the most frequent anchor of the daytime ABC News Brief updates that were broadcast during that era. He was also the anchor of the 15-minute bulletins that ABC transmitted late at night on Saturday and Sunday until 1991, when such broadcasts were discontinued.
Jarrell was the anchor of the majority of those bulletins during that time period. Additionally, he filled in as an anchor for World News Tonight on a regular basis.