NEWS FLASH!!!
Ron is looking for work for the 1st time in 30 years.
Any insight or leads?
Check out Ron's job hunting web site: HERE
Email Direct to:
ron@middlekauff.tv
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| Ron with LiveCopter 3 |
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Potentially, my career, or worse could have ended on January 31, 2008. I was with a reporter doing "snow coverage" for a newscast. The reporter was driving and I had been taking photos inside the car of driving conditions. Coming around a turn, the car went into a slide, crossing all lanes of US Highway 50 just east of Placerville.
We hit a curb running the length of the highway and that set us into a roll, downhill, over 100 feet. The California Highway Patrol told me that he counted about 8 complete rolls. We landed upside down. We were trapped. Eventually, I was able to free myself, but my friend was totally trapped and I was unable to free that person.
Eventually, emergency personnel arrived and got us out and transported to a local hospital.
The reporter is doing well now, considering the circumstances. I however, WAS doing "modified duty" at work, until they dismissed me effective 6/5/2009 saying they had no more "modified duty" work available. It was a physically demanding job that I have had a BLAST doing.
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2009 HAD marked the 30th Anniversary milestone for me at KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California...but now, it's all over.
See comments above.
Below are just some of the fantastic things that this career had allowed me to do:
- 3 time Emmy nominee
- Have met every US President from Ford to George W. Bush! Hope to meet Obama!
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Been to the White House & inside the Oval Office
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Covered Pope John Paul on his California visit in 1988
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Covered the Queen of England's Sacramento visit in 1984
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Flown on "Air Force One" with President Clinton in 1993
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Covered the 1988 Space Shuttle "Discovery" Launch and Landing
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Flown in the Good Year Blimp
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Covered a Super Bowl & World Series
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Appeared on "Oprah" in March 1997
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Appeared in "People Magazine", "Readers Digest" & other forms of national media in 1997
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Covered US Military action in Haiti in 1994
Met some of the biggest names in Sports & Entertainment.
Among the "LEGENDS" were Bob Hope, George Burns, Danny Thomas
and Tony Bennett!
Historical Figures like Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez and more!!!
It is very hard to sum up a 30+ year career, but compared with a lot of other things I could have done, this had been most rewarding.
Too bad it ended the way it did, through no fault of my own.
What will the future hold?
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| Ron & Lance Armstrong |
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| Ron with Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton |
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| Ron & Rush Limbaugh (Twins seperated at birth) |
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| Ron & Bill Cosby |
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| Ron & Garth Brooks |
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| Ron & Jay Leno |
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| Ron & Chuck Yeager |
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| Ron & Apollo 8 & 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell |
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| Ron & Space Shuttle Astronaut Steve Robinson |
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| Ron & S.F. 49er QB and Hall-of-Famer: Joe Montana |
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| Ron & NBC's "Deal or No Deal" model, Tameka Jacobs (She carries case # 21) CLICK ON PHOTO to read story about Tameka. Ron met Tameka when she was 4 years old, while doing TV story on her. |
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| Human Flag, Photographer - Ron Middlekauff |
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| Ron in Good Year Blimp |
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| Ron and Good Year Blimp |
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| The story would not be complete... without my pal Rodeo rescued from floods in 1997. Truly, the career highlight! |
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| Of course there was the childrens book written about the rescue too... |
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