Kirk Harold Knox Jr., 86, of Cheyenne died Nov. 21.
He was born Sept. 3, 1919, in Exira, Iowa. He was the only child of Rose and Kirk Hilary Knox Sr.
He was a veteran news journalist, sportsman and musician. For more than 60 years he worked in radio, television and print media. He was honored Oct. 30, 2001, by the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle for his 50 years as a reporter and columnist. Mayor Jack Spiker declared Kirk Knox Day. The newspaper published his book titled "The School of Hard Knox." The book was a unique compilation of his perspective on his life, news stories, sports, weather, entertainment and memories his friends had of him. Proceeds from the sale of the book were donated to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter.
He lived in Exira until 1928 when his family moved to LaGrange. He graduated from LaGrange High School and was awarded scholastic scholarships to the University of Wyoming and Scottsbluff Junior College and a music scholarship to Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Scottsbluff Junior College and Chillicothe Business School in Missouri. He later attended the University of Wyoming and the University of Colorado.
He worked as a reporter for the Scottsbluff Star Herald in 1941 when World War II was declared. His life changed dramatically when he enlisted in the Seventh Corps in the United States Army in Omaha. He was assigned to answering correspondence for the Captain in charge of recruiting. When the Corps created a 100 man records unit he was transferred to Second Army Headquarters in Memphis. The then new IBM computer unit kept track of 500,000 troops. His military career was interrupted by a medical problem and he was honorably discharged on April 4, 1944.
He returned to Scottsbluff and became an announcer, reporter and later news editor for the radio station now known as KOLT.
In 1951 he came to Cheyenne to work for the Wyoming State Tribune as a reporter. He reported on city and state news and covered the federal offices, district and federal courts and police matters. He also did critiques of theater, music, and tournament tennis. He later had his own column.
He periodically wrote for the New York Times, CBS, NBC, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Time magazine and Denver Post.
Knox was the news anchor at KFBC-TV when it first went on the air in March 1954. He had a program titled Capitol City Commentary, later he did reporting on KFBC. He and Larry Birleffi did daily commentary on the Cheyenne Today program.
He was known as "Mr. News" in Cheyenne. He covered every kind of news story and interviewed the famous, infamous and people of note.
He interviewed a myriad of nationally famous people. He met and wrote feature stories about every U.S. president since Roosevelt. Some of the others were Ted and Robert Kennedy, Barbara Stanwyck, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Tip O'Neill, Gary Hart, Casey Tibbs and George Plimpton.
Some of the nationally known trials he wrote about where those of Charles Starkweather, Richard and Deborah Jahnke, Mark Hopkinson and Kim Pring.
He had a lifelong interest in sports - track, basketball, golf, table tennis, dancing, shooting and tennis. He taught himself to play tennis from Bill Tilden's book on tennis. He was a tennis player during his college days. While in the military he was captain of the Second Army tennis team in Memphis. When he returned to Scottsbluff he was the tennis coach for Scottsbluff Junior College. In Cheyenne he organized tennis tournaments and readily taught anyone who wanted to learn tennis. One of his protégés became Denver city champion. He competed in many tournaments and won more than 200 trophies.
He supported the Cheyenne Animal Shelter from the time that it was a struggling facility with little funding to the current state of the art shelter. He was honored several times by the shelter. A Mark Junge photograph of him and his dog Pepper hangs in the lobby.
He won medals for his scholastic achievements. He won awards in solo trumpet competitions but was glad he did not pursue music as a vocation. He played in school band and orchestra.
© Wyoming Tribune Eagle November 29, 2005
Submitted by Lostnwyomn. September 2012.
He was born Sept. 3, 1919, in Exira, Iowa. He was the only child of Rose and Kirk Hilary Knox Sr.
He was a veteran news journalist, sportsman and musician. For more than 60 years he worked in radio, television and print media. He was honored Oct. 30, 2001, by the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle for his 50 years as a reporter and columnist. Mayor Jack Spiker declared Kirk Knox Day. The newspaper published his book titled "The School of Hard Knox." The book was a unique compilation of his perspective on his life, news stories, sports, weather, entertainment and memories his friends had of him. Proceeds from the sale of the book were donated to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter.
He lived in Exira until 1928 when his family moved to LaGrange. He graduated from LaGrange High School and was awarded scholastic scholarships to the University of Wyoming and Scottsbluff Junior College and a music scholarship to Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Scottsbluff Junior College and Chillicothe Business School in Missouri. He later attended the University of Wyoming and the University of Colorado.
He worked as a reporter for the Scottsbluff Star Herald in 1941 when World War II was declared. His life changed dramatically when he enlisted in the Seventh Corps in the United States Army in Omaha. He was assigned to answering correspondence for the Captain in charge of recruiting. When the Corps created a 100 man records unit he was transferred to Second Army Headquarters in Memphis. The then new IBM computer unit kept track of 500,000 troops. His military career was interrupted by a medical problem and he was honorably discharged on April 4, 1944.
He returned to Scottsbluff and became an announcer, reporter and later news editor for the radio station now known as KOLT.
In 1951 he came to Cheyenne to work for the Wyoming State Tribune as a reporter. He reported on city and state news and covered the federal offices, district and federal courts and police matters. He also did critiques of theater, music, and tournament tennis. He later had his own column.
He periodically wrote for the New York Times, CBS, NBC, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Time magazine and Denver Post.
Knox was the news anchor at KFBC-TV when it first went on the air in March 1954. He had a program titled Capitol City Commentary, later he did reporting on KFBC. He and Larry Birleffi did daily commentary on the Cheyenne Today program.
He was known as "Mr. News" in Cheyenne. He covered every kind of news story and interviewed the famous, infamous and people of note.
He interviewed a myriad of nationally famous people. He met and wrote feature stories about every U.S. president since Roosevelt. Some of the others were Ted and Robert Kennedy, Barbara Stanwyck, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Tip O'Neill, Gary Hart, Casey Tibbs and George Plimpton.
Some of the nationally known trials he wrote about where those of Charles Starkweather, Richard and Deborah Jahnke, Mark Hopkinson and Kim Pring.
He had a lifelong interest in sports - track, basketball, golf, table tennis, dancing, shooting and tennis. He taught himself to play tennis from Bill Tilden's book on tennis. He was a tennis player during his college days. While in the military he was captain of the Second Army tennis team in Memphis. When he returned to Scottsbluff he was the tennis coach for Scottsbluff Junior College. In Cheyenne he organized tennis tournaments and readily taught anyone who wanted to learn tennis. One of his protégés became Denver city champion. He competed in many tournaments and won more than 200 trophies.
He supported the Cheyenne Animal Shelter from the time that it was a struggling facility with little funding to the current state of the art shelter. He was honored several times by the shelter. A Mark Junge photograph of him and his dog Pepper hangs in the lobby.
He won medals for his scholastic achievements. He won awards in solo trumpet competitions but was glad he did not pursue music as a vocation. He played in school band and orchestra.
© Wyoming Tribune Eagle November 29, 2005
Submitted by Lostnwyomn. September 2012.
Kirk Harold Knox Jr., 86, of Cheyenne died Nov. 21.
He was born Sept. 3, 1919, in Exira, Iowa. He was the only child of Rose and Kirk Hilary Knox Sr.
He was a veteran news journalist, sportsman and musician. For more than 60 years he worked in radio, television and print media. He was honored Oct. 30, 2001, by the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle for his 50 years as a reporter and columnist. Mayor Jack Spiker declared Kirk Knox Day. The newspaper published his book titled "The School of Hard Knox." The book was a unique compilation of his perspective on his life, news stories, sports, weather, entertainment and memories his friends had of him. Proceeds from the sale of the book were donated to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter.
He lived in Exira until 1928 when his family moved to LaGrange. He graduated from LaGrange High School and was awarded scholastic scholarships to the University of Wyoming and Scottsbluff Junior College and a music scholarship to Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Scottsbluff Junior College and Chillicothe Business School in Missouri. He later attended the University of Wyoming and the University of Colorado.
He worked as a reporter for the Scottsbluff Star Herald in 1941 when World War II was declared. His life changed dramatically when he enlisted in the Seventh Corps in the United States Army in Omaha. He was assigned to answering correspondence for the Captain in charge of recruiting. When the Corps created a 100 man records unit he was transferred to Second Army Headquarters in Memphis. The then new IBM computer unit kept track of 500,000 troops. His military career was interrupted by a medical problem and he was honorably discharged on April 4, 1944.
He returned to Scottsbluff and became an announcer, reporter and later news editor for the radio station now known as KOLT.
In 1951 he came to Cheyenne to work for the Wyoming State Tribune as a reporter. He reported on city and state news and covered the federal offices, district and federal courts and police matters. He also did critiques of theater, music, and tournament tennis. He later had his own column.
He periodically wrote for the New York Times, CBS, NBC, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Time magazine and Denver Post.
Knox was the news anchor at KFBC-TV when it first went on the air in March 1954. He had a program titled Capitol City Commentary, later he did reporting on KFBC. He and Larry Birleffi did daily commentary on the Cheyenne Today program.
He was known as "Mr. News" in Cheyenne. He covered every kind of news story and interviewed the famous, infamous and people of note.
He interviewed a myriad of nationally famous people. He met and wrote feature stories about every U.S. president since Roosevelt. Some of the others were Ted and Robert Kennedy, Barbara Stanwyck, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Tip O'Neill, Gary Hart, Casey Tibbs and George Plimpton.
Some of the nationally known trials he wrote about where those of Charles Starkweather, Richard and Deborah Jahnke, Mark Hopkinson and Kim Pring.
He had a lifelong interest in sports - track, basketball, golf, table tennis, dancing, shooting and tennis. He taught himself to play tennis from Bill Tilden's book on tennis. He was a tennis player during his college days. While in the military he was captain of the Second Army tennis team in Memphis. When he returned to Scottsbluff he was the tennis coach for Scottsbluff Junior College. In Cheyenne he organized tennis tournaments and readily taught anyone who wanted to learn tennis. One of his protégés became Denver city champion. He competed in many tournaments and won more than 200 trophies.
He supported the Cheyenne Animal Shelter from the time that it was a struggling facility with little funding to the current state of the art shelter. He was honored several times by the shelter. A Mark Junge photograph of him and his dog Pepper hangs in the lobby.
He won medals for his scholastic achievements. He won awards in solo trumpet competitions but was glad he did not pursue music as a vocation. He played in school band and orchestra.
© Wyoming Tribune Eagle November 29, 2005
Submitted by Lostnwyomn. September 2012.
He was born Sept. 3, 1919, in Exira, Iowa. He was the only child of Rose and Kirk Hilary Knox Sr.
He was a veteran news journalist, sportsman and musician. For more than 60 years he worked in radio, television and print media. He was honored Oct. 30, 2001, by the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle for his 50 years as a reporter and columnist. Mayor Jack Spiker declared Kirk Knox Day. The newspaper published his book titled "The School of Hard Knox." The book was a unique compilation of his perspective on his life, news stories, sports, weather, entertainment and memories his friends had of him. Proceeds from the sale of the book were donated to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter.
He lived in Exira until 1928 when his family moved to LaGrange. He graduated from LaGrange High School and was awarded scholastic scholarships to the University of Wyoming and Scottsbluff Junior College and a music scholarship to Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Scottsbluff Junior College and Chillicothe Business School in Missouri. He later attended the University of Wyoming and the University of Colorado.
He worked as a reporter for the Scottsbluff Star Herald in 1941 when World War II was declared. His life changed dramatically when he enlisted in the Seventh Corps in the United States Army in Omaha. He was assigned to answering correspondence for the Captain in charge of recruiting. When the Corps created a 100 man records unit he was transferred to Second Army Headquarters in Memphis. The then new IBM computer unit kept track of 500,000 troops. His military career was interrupted by a medical problem and he was honorably discharged on April 4, 1944.
He returned to Scottsbluff and became an announcer, reporter and later news editor for the radio station now known as KOLT.
In 1951 he came to Cheyenne to work for the Wyoming State Tribune as a reporter. He reported on city and state news and covered the federal offices, district and federal courts and police matters. He also did critiques of theater, music, and tournament tennis. He later had his own column.
He periodically wrote for the New York Times, CBS, NBC, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, Time magazine and Denver Post.
Knox was the news anchor at KFBC-TV when it first went on the air in March 1954. He had a program titled Capitol City Commentary, later he did reporting on KFBC. He and Larry Birleffi did daily commentary on the Cheyenne Today program.
He was known as "Mr. News" in Cheyenne. He covered every kind of news story and interviewed the famous, infamous and people of note.
He interviewed a myriad of nationally famous people. He met and wrote feature stories about every U.S. president since Roosevelt. Some of the others were Ted and Robert Kennedy, Barbara Stanwyck, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Tip O'Neill, Gary Hart, Casey Tibbs and George Plimpton.
Some of the nationally known trials he wrote about where those of Charles Starkweather, Richard and Deborah Jahnke, Mark Hopkinson and Kim Pring.
He had a lifelong interest in sports - track, basketball, golf, table tennis, dancing, shooting and tennis. He taught himself to play tennis from Bill Tilden's book on tennis. He was a tennis player during his college days. While in the military he was captain of the Second Army tennis team in Memphis. When he returned to Scottsbluff he was the tennis coach for Scottsbluff Junior College. In Cheyenne he organized tennis tournaments and readily taught anyone who wanted to learn tennis. One of his protégés became Denver city champion. He competed in many tournaments and won more than 200 trophies.
He supported the Cheyenne Animal Shelter from the time that it was a struggling facility with little funding to the current state of the art shelter. He was honored several times by the shelter. A Mark Junge photograph of him and his dog Pepper hangs in the lobby.
He won medals for his scholastic achievements. He won awards in solo trumpet competitions but was glad he did not pursue music as a vocation. He played in school band and orchestra.
© Wyoming Tribune Eagle November 29, 2005
Submitted by Lostnwyomn. September 2012.
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