William Burke Miller
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William Burke "Skeets" Miller (c. 1903 – December 29, 1983) was a newspaper and radio reporter who first came to prominence with his on site reporting of the attempted rescue of caver Floyd Collins for Louisville's Courier-Journal, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize on May 4, 1926.
In 1927 he began writing for the New York Morning World, then moved to WJAC and NBC when it was founded, in charge of special events programming. Due to Miller's creative on-the-spot coverage (including the first live transmission from a parachute jump) Robert Ripley designated him "the bravest man in radio." He later became eastern program manager for NBC.
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- Brucker, R. and Murray, R. Trapped! the Story of Floyd Collins [1], University Press of Kentucky, 1982. ISBN 0-8131-0153-0 [2]
