| Graduation Year | Class of 1981 |
| Date of Passing | Aug 14, 2006 |
| About | Hi, this is Rich's obituary from Variety magazine. It's too hard to personalize it at this moment, but I will! ~Melissa (RHS '79) Richard J. Farmer, Los Angeles-based Video cameraman died Aug. 14. He was 43. Rich won Emmy, Cable Ace, and Golden Mike awards during a 20-year career in journalism. He was a staff cameraman for the Los Angeles bureau of CNN for six years beginning in 1989. At CNN he covered the riots that followed the Rodney King beating incident, the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, the Northridge Earthquake, and many other national news stories. He won his Emmy for a notable shot of Timothy McVeigh in an orange jumpsuit shortly after his arrest for the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing. After leaving CNN, Farmer became an independent videographer for clients such as CBS News, ABC News, Extra, Inside Edition and Oprah Winfrey's production company. A graduate of East Stroudsburg State U. in Penn, he worked for WNEW-TV in New York after graduation. He then moved to Atlanta, where he became a satellite coordinator at the CNN headquarters. He moved to Los Angeles in 1987 and became a a freelance cameraman. Farmer was also a cameraman for the syndicated program "Crime Watch." He is survived by his father, former CNN L.A. bureau chief David Farmer; mother Hinda, a journalist; and his sister Melissa, a long-time music industry executive. |
