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Carl Kasell, NPR newsman and Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! straight man, is dead at 84

Carl Kasell, the longtime NPR morning newscaster who found a second career at the NPR comedic news quiz Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!, died on Tuesday. He was 84, and his wife, Mary Ann Foster, gave the cause as complications of Alzheimer's disease, which Kassel discovered he had in 2012. Kasell was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1934, and he was interested in radio from a young age.

 

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