‘A trailblazer, a rabble-rouser, a do-gooder’: CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87

On June 1, 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN at a converted Jewish country club in Atlanta. Rick Diamond/Getty Images/Archive Photos

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Ted Turner — the bullish founder of CNN and a suite of other cable channels, not to mention a bison steakhouse, a nonprofit designed to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and an international sports competition —

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