Gwyn Thomas
Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas (August 16, 1913 – May 5, 2010) was a crime reporter with CFRB and the Toronto Star.Born in Toronto, Thomas began his news career as a newsboy at the corner of Bathurst Street and Bloor Street in 1925. After one year of high school, Thomas was hired by the Toronto Star as a copyboy in 1929. He worked his way as a general reporter in the early 1930s to becoming the paper's crime reporter by 1939. In the 1960s, Thomas entered a new medium by becoming a radio crime reporter on CFRB.Thomas' career involved covering the minor criminal activities in Toronto's suburbs, but also famous criminal stories: Christie Pits race riots in 1933. Stanley Buckowski on death row at California's San Quentin prison (1951); and execution 1952. Boyd GangRetired in 1989, Thomas died at a long-term care facility in North York at the age of 96.
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| Birth date | January 01, 1913 |
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| Date of death | May 05, 2010 |
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