{"id":125123,"date":"2022-02-07T01:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=125123"},"modified":"2022-02-07T01:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:59:39","slug":"the-passing-of-ed-palkot-there-goes-a-chunk-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/the-passing-of-ed-palkot-there-goes-a-chunk-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The passing of Ed Palkot: There goes a 'chunk of America'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox News remembers Ed Palkot<\/h4>\n

Martha MacCallum pays tribute to the father of Fox News correspondent Greg Palkot on ‘The Story.’<\/p>\n

A bit of America died this week.  His name was Edward John Palkot. He was my father.<\/p>\n

Regular Foxnews.com readers might recall him. I\u2019ve written about him several times.    <\/p>\n

How he\u2019s voted in every presidential election that\u2019s ever been.  <\/p>\n

How he made it through two global pandemics \u2026 nearly.<\/p>\n

His father was an immigrant. His dad fled Lithuania because he didn\u2019t want to serve in the army of the Russian Czar who was running the country at the time. The more things change \u2026 <\/p>\n

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\n Dad when he was two months old
\n (Family photo)<\/span><\/p>\n

Dad grew up in the great but hardscrabble industrial city of Pittsburgh, where the air was so polluted from belching steel mills that office workers had to change their white shirts by midday.<\/p>\n

Dad always joked he put down his longevity to breathing that air and swallowing the waters of the tainted rivers that flowed through the city he swam in.   <\/p>\n

Probably his first “news” memory was Armistice Day 1918. The end of World War I. The soldiers posted in the city marched across its many bridges. Youngsters hung from the girders. Little Ed watched it all.<\/p>\n

He also “remembered” the Civil War. In an elementary school pageant, he played George Washington. He still had the little suit made for him by his mother. And on the stage, incredibly, were veterans of the war between the Blue and the Gray.<\/p>\n

He remembered the Roaring ’20s. The good times. Nights out at the theater. The dark times. The local Ku Klux Klan chapter marching through the city\u2019s streets.  <\/p>\n

And the Great Depression. Ed Palkot went to a good university, Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon), where he studied drama. Like many, though, he had to work his way through college at the time. He then worked to get a job upon graduation, selling detergent door to door to maintain funds.    <\/p>\n

When World War II came, he wanted to serve in the Navy. His eyesight wasn\u2019t good enough, so he helped run the massive Sperry gyroscope factory outside of New York. Making the forerunners of our GPS that guided the naval ships and Air Force planes that helped win the war.  <\/p>\n