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WTIC's Dick Bertel, flanked by Bob Steele (left) and Bill Hanson (right) Photo credit Doug Bertel

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By John Silva

Hartford, Conn./WTIC Radio - A Connecticut broadcasting legend has died.

Longtime WTIC news anchor, reporter, and personality Dick Bertel's long career began in the 1950s, and included a 21-year stint at WTIC beginning in 1956 at the age of 25.

Bertel died earlier this week at 92. He was also a personality on the upstart WTIC-TV, Channel 3 until is was sold in the 1970s.

Bertel worked at a number of Fairfield and Hartford County radio stations, moving on to Washington, D.C. and Voice of Amercia, WTOP, NBC Radio and Mutual afterward.

Bertel's son Doug said his father was on the air at WTIC the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated November 22, 1963.

"He recalled the chaos of that day", Doug Bertel said.

Doug said his father remembered nearly the entire city of Hartford shut down, adding that the ensuing days of mourning "made a profound impression on him."

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