John F. Beard

John Beard is an Emmy Award–winning American news anchor based in Buffalo, NY. Beard hails from St. Pauls, North Carolina and was a Navy Corpsman with the Marines before beginning his broadcast career. He is a graduate of East Carolina University. From December 1993 until September 2007, he anchored, with Christine Devine, the 10 p.m. newscast at KTTV in Los Angeles. Prior to KTTV, Beard was a long time anchor at KNBC-TV, beginning a 13 year career at the station in 1980. It was during one of Beard's newscasts at KNBC that an unbalanced viewer came onto the news set and forced consumer advocate David Horowitz to read the man's manifesto at gunpoint. Once Horowitz finished reading the paper, the man set the gun down on the desk, at which...