Henry R. "Hank" Allison III, 64, a former KFWB radio reporter whose coverage of the gun battle between the LAPD and the Symbionese Liberation Army earned national recognition, died Sept. 6 of a blood clot at his Nashville home, the website LARadio.com reported.
Allison was one of four reporters for KFWB-AM (980) to receive a Columbia-DuPont Award for on-the-scene reporting of the May 17, 1974, shootout in South Los Angeles. Their coverage "made five consecutive hours . . . into a single chilling and coherent whole," the award jury said.
