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50 years of Action News: Remembering Jim O'Brien and Gary Papa

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
50 years of Action News: Remembering Jim O'Brien and Gary Papa

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Over the course of 50 years of Action News, our viewers have been fortunate to know and love two popular and talented individuals who left us much too soon.

Both were great colleagues and dear friends - Jim O'Brien and Gary Papa.

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