Robert O. Cain

(1934- ) born at O'Neill, lived in Omaha. Broadcast journalist, television newscaster, known for sharing a 1975 Peabody Award to NBC radio for its "Second Sunday" series, he spent over 40 years in a career that began as a reporter for stations in several states, followed by anchorman for NBC radio in New York from 1971 to 1980, then anchorman for the 24-hours-a-day Cable News Network at Atlanta, Georgia until the mid-1990s. Consult Contemporary Authors, Vols 65-68 (Gale, 1977) 100 and Omaha World Herald, June 8, 1992, p. 31.

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