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|name=Donald Lynn "Don" Owen

|name=Donald Lynn "Don" Owen

|birth_date=1930

|birth_date=February 18, 1930

|birth_place=Beggs, Okmulgee County, [[Oklahoma]]

|birth_place=Beggs, Okmulgee County, [[Oklahoma]]

|death_date=June 17, 2012

|death_date=June 17, 2012

}}

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'''Donald Lynn Owen''', known as '''Don Owen''' (1930 - June 17, 2012), was from 1954 to 1984 the pioneer news anchor at KSLA-TV, the [[CBS]] affiliate in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. In 1984, he was elected to the first of three six-year terms on the regulatory Louisiana Public Service Commission.  

'''Donald Lynn Owen''', known as '''Don Owen''' (February 18, 1930 – June 17, 2012), was from 1954 to 1984 the pioneer news anchor at KSLA-TV, the [[CBS]] affiliate in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]]. In 1984, he was elected to the first of three six-year terms on the regulatory Louisiana Public Service Commission.  

   

   

A native of Beggs in Okmulgee County in east central [[Oklahoma]], Owen as a teenager was stricken with [[polio]].<ref name=stimes>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120617/NEWS01/120617006/Don-Owen-news-veteran-former-PSC-member-dies|title=John Andrew Prime, "Don Owen, news veteran, former PSC member, dies", June 17, 2012|publisher=''Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 2, 2012}}</ref> His viewing public was largely unaware that Owen was crippled and wore a leg brace.  

A native of Beggs in Okmulgee County in east central [[Oklahoma]], Owen as a teenager was stricken with [[polio]].<ref name=stimes>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120617/NEWS01/120617006/Don-Owen-news-veteran-former-PSC-member-dies|title=John Andrew Prime, "Don Owen, news veteran, former PSC member, dies", June 17, 2012|publisher=''Shreveport Times''|accessdate=July 2, 2012}}</ref> His viewing public was largely unaware that Owen was crippled and wore a leg brace.  

A Shreveport columnist once called him "the [[Walter Cronkite]] of the Shreveport media market, referring to the CBS national anchorman from 1962 until 1981, who at the time had a national reputation for objectivity.<ref name=cook>{{cite web|url=http://arklatexhomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=252852|title=Nancy Cook, "Shreveport pioneer newsman dies"|publisher=arklatexhomepage.com|accessdate=July 2, 2012}}</ref>[[Conservative]]s later found Cronkite biased toward the political left.

A Shreveport columnist once called him "the [[Walter Cronkite]] of the Shreveport media market," referring to the CBS national anchorman from 1962 until 1981, who at the time had a national reputation for objectivity.<ref name=cook>{{cite web|url=http://arklatexhomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=252852|title=Nancy Cook, "Shreveport pioneer newsman dies"|publisher=arklatexhomepage.com|accessdate=July 2, 2012}}</ref>[[Conservative]]s later found Cronkite biased toward the world view of the political left.

==Broadcaster==

==Broadcaster==

==Death and family==

==Death and family==

Owen died of [[pneumonia]] on Father's Day 2012. His wife, the former Dagmar Oksenholt, a Danish-American and a native Shreveporter born in 1935, preceded him in death by four months. He was survived by their son, Daryl Hays Owen (born c. 1957) and wife, the former Ellen L. Berger, of McLean, [[Virginia]], daughter Donna Lynn Owen Touchstone and husband Jack Robert Touchstone, a Shreveport businessman, the son of Jack Touchstone and Kathryn  Stearns "Kaye" Touchstone (1925-2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=kathryn-touchstone&pid=162442547&fhid=6593#fbLoggedOut|title=Kathryn Touchstone|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 19, 2013}}</ref> and four grandchildren.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=dagmar-owen&pid=155865820|title=Dagmar Owen obituary|publisher=''Shreveport Times'', February 14, 2012|accessdate=July 10, 2012}}</ref>  Owen's funeral service was private.<ref name=stimes/>

Owen died of [[pneumonia]] on Father's Day 2012. His wife, the former Dagmar Oksenholt, a Danish-American and a native Shreveporter born in 1935, preceded him in death by four months. He was survived by their son, Daryl Hays Owen (born c. 1957) and wife, the former Ellen L. Berger, of McLean, [[Virginia]], daughter Donna Lynn Owen Touchstone and husband Jack Robert Touchstone, a Shreveport businessman, the son of Jack Touchstone and Kathryn  Stearns "Kaye" Touchstone (1925-2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=kathryn-touchstone&pid=162442547&fhid=6593#fbLoggedOut|title=Kathryn Touchstone|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 19, 2013}}</ref> and four grandchildren.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=dagmar-owen&pid=155865820|title=Dagmar Owen obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times'', February 14, 2012|accessdate=July 10, 2012}}</ref>  Owen's funeral service was private.<ref name=stimes/>

   

   

Daryl Owen is an attorney/[[lobbyist]] who in 1991 founded Daryl Owen Associates, a government relations and strategic consulting firm. Considered an expert in energy policy, Owen began his  career in [[Washington, D.C.]], as an aide and then chief of staff to former [[U.S. Senator]] [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], a Shreveport Democrat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.owendc.com/team/|title=Daryl Owen Associates, Inc.|publisher=owendc.com|accessdate=July 10, 2012}}</ref> Daryl Owen recalls his father's pioneering journalism: "There was no rulebook, there were no guidelines. They had to make it up on the fly, what the ethics were, how to deal with some of the greater issues of the day. They had to desegregate the newsroom. They put the first black anchor on the air. He pioneered the industry.”<ref name=stimes/>

Daryl Owen is an attorney/[[lobbyist]] who in 1991 founded Daryl Owen Associates, a government relations and strategic consulting firm. Considered an expert in energy policy, Owen began his  career in [[Washington, D.C.]], as an aide and then chief of staff to former [[U.S. Senator]] [[J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.]], a Shreveport Democrat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.owendc.com/team/|title=Daryl Owen Associates, Inc.|publisher=owendc.com|accessdate=July 10, 2012}}</ref> Daryl Owen recalls his father's pioneering journalism: "There was no rulebook, there were no guidelines. They had to make it up on the fly, what the ethics were, how to deal with some of the greater issues of the day. They had to desegregate the newsroom. They put the first black anchor on the air. He pioneered the industry.”<ref name=stimes/>