Jack O'Hara
Age: 39
Summary: five-time Emmy Award-winning executive producer of ABC Sports who was vice president of programming, where he was responsible for acquisition of sports properties and oversaw all the network's sports broadcasts, including Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports prior to becoming executive producer in 1991, but who joined the growing list of employees laid off by ABC as it prepares to merge with the Walt Disney Company and was due to supervise coverage of the final weekend of the 1996 Tour de France cycling race, which was expected to be his last assignment for the television network at the peak of his retirement.
Cause of Death: Killed in TWA Flight 800 airplane accident
Born: March 1, 1957
Died: July 17, 1996
Location: East Moriches, New York