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- Birth nameFranklyn Feld
- Frank Field was born on March 30, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He was a writer, known for Health Field (1979), Not for Women Only (1968) and The NewsCenter (1974). He was married to Joan Kaplan Field. He died on July 1, 2023 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
- SpouseJoan Kaplan Field(1948 - 2023) (her death, 3 children)
- Currently resides in Boca, Florida [February 2020].
- Began his career in New York at WNBC in 1958 as a meteorologist and later a health and science reporter.
- He introduced the NBC audience to the Heimlich maneuver before the medical establishment embraced it.
- His son Storm and daughter Allison also became television meteorologists.
- In 1983, in a daring television news broadcast, he covered a kidney transplant live - from first incision to final suture.
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