Gwyn Thomas
Journalist, Deceased Person
1913 – 2010
Who was Gwyn Thomas?
Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas was a crime reporter with CFRB and the Toronto Star.
Born in Toronto, Thomas began his news career as a newsboy at the corner of Bathurst Street and Bloor Street in 1925. After one year of high school, Thomas was hired by the Toronto Star as a copyboy in 1929. He worked his way as a general reporter in the early 1930s to becoming the paper's crime reporter by 1939. In the 1960s, Thomas entered a new medium by becoming a radio crime reporter on CFRB.
Thomas' career involved covering the minor criminal activities in Toronto's suburbs, but also famous criminal stories:
⁕Christie Pits race riots in 1933.
⁕Stanley Buckowski on death row at California's San Quentin prison; and execution 1952.
⁕Boyd Gang
Retired in 1989, Thomas died at a long-term care facility in North York at the age of 96.
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- Born
- 1913
Toronto - Profession
- Lived in
- Toronto
- Died
- May 5, 2010
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on July 23, 2013
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