Baden Wesley Langton (1927 or 1928 — February 14, 2018) was one of several early co-anchors of ''

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'' and later White House correspondent for

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. Langton was born in

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. He left home at the age of 17 to join the

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, where he became part of the Special Forces Unit, entertaining the troops. Returning to Brantford in 1947,Baden Langton biography
(Brantford Collegiate Institute) (

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) he began his broadcasting career with radio station CKPC before moving to CFPL-AM in

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and CKOC and CHML in

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, where he also ventured into television at CHCH. He then moved to Ottawa, where he became co-anchor of the CTV World News (later known as CTV National News) with Ab Douglas and

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in 1962. He remained with CTV until 1964, when he moved to ABC in the United States and was soon joined at the network by Jennings. Langton joined ABC Radio, first in New York and then in Washington as

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correspondent on radio and television before returning to

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where he was a news anchor for ABC Radio. Langton and his family moved back to Canada in 1967 as his sons, Karl and Max, were approaching draft age and the

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was heating up. Returning to Canada, he was a newscaster at CHAM-AM in Hamilton and then taught Broadcast Journalism at Mohawk College for ten years, freelanced for the

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, and produced five full-length documentaries for the

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before retiring in 1980. His first wife, music teacher Norah Halajian Langton, died in 2009. He was also predeceased by sons, businessman and musician Max in 2013, and Karl, founder of the Brantford Community Symphony Orchestra, in 2017. He was survived by his second wife, Lo-Ann Beckerson, whom he was married to for 42 years, and by his daughter, Jennifer, a music teacher and performer.

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Baden Langton biography
(Brantford Collegiate Institute) (

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