Thursday, December 15, 2011

Former Kentucky Coal Association President Dies

{Lexington, Kentucky}...Thomas D. "Tom" Duncan, a longtime journalist, who also served as president of the Kentucky Coal Association for nearly two decades, died Tuesday night at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in Lexington at the age of 83. Duncan began his career in 1947 and worked at the Lexington Leader, the Lexington Herald, The Associated Press and The Courier-Journal before becoming WAVE-TV's first live correspondent from Frankfort. He left journalism in 1972 and became president of the Kentucky Coal Association two years later.