Jack Perkins
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Jack Perkins (born 1933) has been dubbed "America's most literate correspondent" by the Associated Press.
He is a reporter, commentator, war correspondent, and anchorman. He has appeared on NBC's "Nightly News" and "The Today Show", and on A&E as host of "Biography". He also is currently the host of "A Gulf Coast Journal", a weekly magazine show which airs on Tampa, Florida PBS affiliate WEDU-TV.
Currently, Perkins devotes a great deal of his time to creating original photography and poetry which he brings together in books, the most recent: "Island Prayers: Photographs and Poems of Praise." It is available on his web site, "jackperkins.com"
Perkins is also a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, on which his "Biography" introductions have been parodied several times - depicting him as a somewhat scatter-minded man prone to long, meandering, name-dropping rambles about nothing in particular (with series host and head writer Michael J. Nelson playing the part of Perkins). He was similarly spoofed as a sarcastic alcoholic when hosting "Biography" by Darrell Hammond on Saturday Night Live.
Perkins son, Eric Perkins, has followed his father into journalism as a Sports Anchor in Minneapolis, MN at the NBC affiliate KARE 11.
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