Penny Preston (Penny Hatcher)

Pine Bluff High School

Class of 1971

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First Name	Penny
Last Name	Preston
Maiden Name	Hatcher
Graduation Year	Class of 1971
Gender	Female
City	N/A
State/Province	WY
Country	United States
Occupation	Television News Reporter
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	When I interviewed Glen Campbell for the school newspaper. He was, at that time, a very big movie, television, and recording star.
About Me	On March 25, 1983, I married Charles Preston, from Fort Smith. The man who performed the wedding ceremony was then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. I was a television reporter in Fort Smith, Fayetteville, and LIttle Rock Arkansas. While reporting for the CBS affiliate in Little Rock, several of my stories aired on CBS network. I also reported for affiliates in Nashville, and Tulsa, before I was recruited to be News Director and News and Sports Anchor for Dallas/Ft. Worth's first super station: KTVT. While there, I often traveled with the Dallas Cowboys football team on their charter jets, to cover their games for our sportscasts. I did Tae Kwon Do demonstrations with running back Herschel Walker. After we moved to the Rockies, I anchoried news for the Denver Fox Affiliate, then producing, anchoring and reporting for Colorado Springs CBS affiliate. My exclusive story on the hidden JFK Assassination Films aired on CBS morning news. We moved to Cody, Wyoming, as my husband was hired to help create and buildt the Draper Museum of Natural History, I became northwest Wyoming's first and only resident television reporter, covering Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park, and northern Wyoming for affiliate stations in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. M...(read more)