WOWT 's most famous former employee is former '' Tonight Show '' host Johnny Carson , who worked at WOW-TV in the early 1950s in his first television job as host of a program called '' The Squirrel 's Nest '' , in which he told jokes . Another prominent former employee is former ABC '' Good Morning America '' reporter Steve Bell , who worked for Channel 6 during the early and mid-1960s . He was the only local reporter to go to Dallas in November 1963 to cover the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy assassination . Bell left channel 6 in 1967 to join ABC News , where he remained until 1986
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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