1. Alan Harrison Berg was an American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado.
15 Facts About Alan Berg
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Alan Berg was the eldest of two children to Joseph Berg, an English-born dentist, and Ruth Kanter, a clothing shop owner from St Louis.
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Alan Berg graduated high school at 17 and married Judith Lee Alan Berg in 1951.
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Alan Berg attended the University of Colorado Denver before transferring to the University of Denver.
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At age 22, Alan Berg was one of the youngest people to pass the Illinois state bar examination and he went into practice in Chicago.
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Alan Berg's wife convinced him to quit his practice to seek help.
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Alan Berg worked at a shoe store and later opened a clothing store in Denver where he met KGMC talk show host Laurence Gross.
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When Gross left KGMC to take a job in San Diego, California, he requested that Alan Berg be named his successor.
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From KGMC, which changed its call sign to KWBZ, Alan Berg moved to KHOW, in Denver.
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The unemployed Alan Berg was courted by both KTOK in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and a station in Detroit, Michigan.
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Alan Berg was hired by KOA and debuted on February 23,1981.
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Alan Berg, who held liberal social and political views, became known for upsetting some callers to the point they began sputtering, whereupon he would berate them.
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On March 5,1982, Alan Berg tried to interview Ellen Kaplan, a member of the LaRouche movement, about an incident that had happened on February 7,1982, at Newark International Airport.
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Alan Berg stepped out of his black Volkswagen Beetle and gunfire erupted with Alan Berg being shot twelve times, including five shots that entered and exited his head.
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Alan Berg steadfastly denied any involvement in Berg's murder, but neither did he regret that Berg was dead.