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University of Florida. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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In addition to Vaughn, two other newsmen, Sid Brenner and Louis Clark of WCAU in Philadelphia, and the pilot, Mike Sedio, perished in the crash. The helicopter lost its rotor some three hundred feet above the Capital City Airport in Harrisburg, crashed, and exploded on the runway. Vaughn had previously worked at several radio and television stations, including outlets in his declared hometown of Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, Havre de Grace in Harford County in northeastern Maryland, and Philadelphia.
From 1965 to February 1966, he was a journalist in the United States Navy, in which capacity he prepared world news broadcasts and had his own radio show, "Music for an Afternoon".
He studied at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Vaughn was the only son of Odell Vaughn, Senior former Deputy Director of the United States Veterans Administration (born c 1921), and the former Virginia Louise Blackwood (1922-2010), formerly of Washington, District of Columbia, and residing at the time of her death in Boiling Springs in Spartanburg County in northern South Carolina.
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United States