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Ray Taliaferro, a legendary radio station in the Bay Area, was reported missing in Kentucky.
According to a KFVS report, the Massac County Sheriff's Department said that Taliaferro – a resident of this county in Illinois – was last seen on November 10 in Paducah, Kentucky.
According to the missing person flyer, "Ray was last seen talking to the manager of the Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant in Paducah. He may be disoriented and show signs of dementia. "
Taliaferro, 79, from San Francisco, became the country's first black talk show host for a major market radio station (KNEW AM 910) in 1976. According to the Bay Area News Group archives, he also headed the chapter of the NAACP dedicated to the city and to be named the first black member of the city's arts commission.
For years, from 1986, the liberal Taliaferro ordered from 1 to 5 am the KGO Newstalk AM-810 show in the Bay Area. In an interview granted in 2011, his colleague Ronn Owens called Taliaferro a "total professional" who "knows how to stir things up at night to create a superb listening experience. "
Owens added, "What his listeners do not know is a total gentleman, a protector of the arts, an incredibly generous person."
Taliaferro was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Association of Black Journalists in 2011.
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