Bob Flick

Bob Flick was a journalist and producer best known for his work on NBC News, covering the 1978 Jonestown massacre in Guyana. As a producer, he participated in getting the celebrity-news program Entertainment Tonight off the ground in 1981.

He is credited as a coordinating producer on 13 episodes of the entertainment program, as well as a writer on one. Flick remained with the show for 15 years, until 1997. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1987 for Outstanding Informational Series.

In the late 1970s, Flick was working as a West Coast producer for NBC News when he accompanied California congressman Leo Ryan and other journalists and officials to Guyana to investigate reports that cult leader Jim Jones was abusing his followers. A group of followers attacked the news crew, wounding some and killing others. Flick managed to escape to Puerto Rico and eventually file one of the earliest first-hand reports on the tragedy.

Footage of Flick’s coverage was later used in CNN’s series The Seventies, as well as the 2008 television documentary Witness to Jonestown.

He died December 31, 2015, in Pasadena, California. He was 84.