Gerald Slater
Gerald Slater was an American public TV executive, Emmy-nominated producer, and one of the four founding employees of PBS. As an executive at PBS and WETA in the 1970s and 1980s, Slater played a key role in the development of public television, expanding its coverage of public affairs and the arts. He was also instrumental in airing the 1974 Senate Watergate hearings in primetime on PBS.
Slater's personal and professional papers reside at the University of Maryland Archives.
Gerald Slater died of COVID-19 on April 24 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. His condition was exacerbated by multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
