{"id":97507,"date":"2016-03-24T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97507"},"modified":"2016-03-24T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:07:20","slug":"actor-ken-howard-passes-white-shadow-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97507","title":{"rendered":"Actor Ken Howard passes, White Shadow show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HowardKen2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97527\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-97527\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HowardKen2-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"HowardKen2\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HowardKen2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HowardKen2-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HowardKen2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Actor Ken Howard, who starred in 1970s series &#8220;The White Shadow&#8221; and served as president of SAG-AFTRA, has died at age 71.<\/p>\n<p>The union announced Howard&#8217;s death Wednesday. No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n<p>Howard played Ken Reeves on &#8220;White Shadow,&#8221; a CBS drama in which his character was a retired NBA player now coaching high schoolers. He had a long television career, appearing on &#8220;Dynasty,&#8221; &#8220;Melrose Place&#8221; and &#8220;Crossing Jordan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Howard was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 2009 and was a catalyst for its 2012 merger with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union. Combined, the groups represent 160,000 actors, broadcasters and recording artists.<\/p>\n<p>Howard was the first president of SAG-AFTRA and was re-elected to the post last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8211; Actor Ken Howard, who starred in 1970s series &#8220;The White Shadow&#8221; and served as president of SAG-AFTRA, has died at age 71. The union announced Howard&#8217;s death Wednesday. No cause of death was given. Howard played Ken Reeves on &#8220;White Shadow,&#8221; a CBS drama in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97529,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97507\/revisions\/97529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}