Tom Snyder dies at 71 from leukemia complications

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style, robust laugh and trademark cloud of cigarette smoke billowing around his head, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.

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