Garrick Utley

Garrick Utley
Utley on May 14, 2012
Born	Clifton Garrick Utley (1939-11-19)November 19, 1939 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	February 20, 2014(2014-02-20) (aged 74) New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Carleton College
Occupation	Television journalist
Known for	Work at NBC News, PBS, ABC News and CNN
Spouse(s)	Gertje Rommeswinkel (m. 1973–2014; his death)

Clifton Garrick Utley (November 19, 1939 – February 20, 2014) was an American television journalist. He established his career reporting about the Vietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent covering the war on-site.

Utley was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Westtown School in 1957 and from Carleton College in 1961. His parents, Frayn and Clifton Utley, were correspondents for NBC radio in the mid-20th century, based in Chicago.

Utley joined NBC News as researcher in Europe for The Huntley-Brinkley Report, where he became Foreign and Principal correspondent. Utley was an anchor substitute. He filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of Today. Utley served as weekend anchor during much of the 1970s, and frequently substituted for John Chancellor during that decade and for Tom Brokaw in the 1980s on NBC Nightly News. Utley was news anchor for Sunday Today from 1987 to 1988 and frequently substituted for Boyd Matson during that decade and co-anchored from 1988 to 1992. Utley also served as weekend anchor on Sundays, from 1987 to 1990 and on Saturdays from 1990 to 1993 of NBC Nightly News. One noteworthy Nightly News broadcast Utley appeared on aired on January 22, 1973, the day the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision. In the midst of that broadcast (fed to affiliates at 6:30 p.m. Eastern), and just before reporting on the decision, news broke that former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson had died.