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John Roland(born 1941) is an American former news presenter and reporter. Mr. Roland, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native who graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 1964, began his broadcasting career in the 1960s. His first major assignment was for NBC News in Los Angeles in 1966. From there, he was hired as a reporter by KTTV, where he covered the Robert F. Kennedy assassination and the Charles Manson trial, and then went to sister station WNEW-TV (now WNYW) in New York City beginning in December, 1969. He remained with Channel 5 for the remainder of his broadcasting career. In his early years with WNEW/WNYW, he was a political reporter and weekend presenter for ''The 10 O'Clock News'', and even did a cooking segment that was shown frequently on the newscast. He took over as the main presenter for the weeknight edition in 1979 after Bill Jorgensen, who had presented the newscast from its start in 1967, left to join the rival station WPIX. Over the years, Mr. Roland's co-presenters included Bill McCreary, Cora-Ann Mihalik and Rosanna Scotto. He left the 10:00 newscast in 2003 in order to prepare for his role as presenter of the new 5:00 and 6:00 PM newscasts that WNYW was preparing, which were launched that fall. His long run with the station came to an end on his retirement on June 4, 2004. After a prolonged separation from his third wife, Mr. Roland finally settled his divorced in 2012. ==Personal heroics== On May 11, 1983, Roland and his then-girlfriend were having a late-night dinner at the Racing Club, a restaurant on New York City's East Side. Three armed men entered the restaurant and attempted to rob customers. Roland disarmed one of the robbers and shot him in the leg. The other two robbers then attacked Roland. One of them struck him with a pistol, causing a laceration on his head that required 36 stitches. The police managed to arrest the three robbers and their getaway driver as they attempted to flee from the scene.〔(The City (New York Times, May 12, 1983) )〕〔() Court record with details of incident.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Roland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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