Stan Chambers
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Stanley Holroyd Chambers (born 11 August 1923 in Los Angeles, California [1]) is an American television reporter who has worked for KTLA since 1947.
Chambers's career began shortly after KTLA became the first commercially-licensed TV station in the western United States. His April 1949 on-scene 27½-hour report of the unsuccessful attempt to rescue Kathy Fiscus from an abandoned well in San Marino, California prompted the sale of hundreds of TV sets in the Los Angeles area.
In 1952 Chambers was involved in the first live telecast of an atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site. Among other stories he has covered are the 1961 Bel Air fires, the 1963 Baldwin Hills Reservoir dam break, the 1971 Sylmar, the Northridge Earthquake, the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr., the 1965 Watts Riots, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Tate-LaBianca murders by the Manson Family, and the Hillside Strangler. Chambers broke the story on the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Department officers.
Chambers has earned several Emmy Awards, Golden Mike Awards, LA City and County Proclamations, an LA Press Club Award, and a "star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His grandson, Jaime Chambers, became a reporter at KTLA in 2003.
