Mary Baer looks back on ‘ride of a lifetime’: 30 years at Channel 4, Mary retires May 31
In 2019, he lost his life for several minutes when he was electrocuted and drowned in his own backyard, while trying to rescue the family dog.
I’ll never forget coming to Jacksonville in 1992 from Columbus, Ohio, and meeting the newsman who would become my “big brother” and my co-anchor for decades! A co-worker, newsroom photojournalist Javier Cruz, was diagnosed with leukemia in 90s, and I was assigned to share the “story” of Javier’s diagnosis, treatment and bone marrow transplant -- all intimate details of a young man’s life that he was brave enough to share on camera with me and our community.I was so proud of him, and so proud to be able to share his courage and his infectious optimism. I was so grateful that I was able to follow his story.
Oh wow, he wanted me to step up to the table where a Mandarin woman lay, completely under sedation. Her abdomen was open, inches away, and I was peering down into the cavity where he was pulling out her kidney! We created a reunion between a young Jacksonville Beach boy and the family of a little Arkansas girl killed in a car crash, who ultimately saved his life after losing her own.Over these 30 years, I’ve watched Jacksonville transform. I began reporting in 1992, and was at the Landing, standing above Hooters, the day the city got the Jaguars. A sea of revelers below me kept running around, screaming and cheering.
I shivered in the cold while waiting for President George W. Bush to make his way through D.C. in his inaugural parade.was a once-in-a-lifetime honor. Jimmy Carter was genuine and engaging while preaching at his hometown congregation, Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia.
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