Death Down East

Bruce B. Cox was born and raised as a Hoosier. After Indiana University, he began his broadcasting career in 1955 as a television producer/director at WLWT in Cincinnati and later worked in various program and administration jobs in Indianapolis WLWI-TV) and Asheville (WLOS-TV). On the day after the famous NYC blackout in 1965 he began work in the Broadcast Program Department of Compton Advertising. A year later he was named its Director of Programming and responsible for the production of daytime's "Guiding Light", and later, "As the World Turns" and "Search for Tomorrow". His primetime work was spent working out of the agency's L.A. office and NY-LA for 25 years is one heckuva monthly commute. His nighttime resume contains sixteen hours of mini-series shot in Tunisia and Greece, two CBS "Movies of the Week", numerous specials and syndicated shows, and An ABC-TV summer comedy he'd like to forget. He has been retired for lo, these may years. His avocation has always been music, primarily percussion. He can still play a mean Indian flute, but all those percussion instruments are gone, gone, gone, thanks primarily to arthritis. Mr. Cox had the good fortune to marry an Indianapolis red-headed beauty named Judy. (He only calls her Judith when he's being formal.) Judy, doing all the work while her husband flew back and forth across the country, raised three fine children who, in the fullness of time, have their own families in Tucson, Napa, and Boulder.