Joe Mosbrook, longtime news reporter at WKYC, has died

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Joe Mosbrook, a news reporter at WKYC Channel 3 from 1967 to 2002, has died.

Mosbrook passed away "peacefully in his sleep" at a hospice care facility in Euclid on Tuesday, his son, Charlie, shared on Facebook . He was 91.

A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Mosbrook's journalism career began in 1961, working in his hometown at radio station WDEL. He arrived in Cleveland six years later to report and anchor the news at the local NBC radio and television affiliate.

During his career, Mosbrook covered major stories such as the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the Kent State shootings, interviewed several U.S. presidents and even traveled with King Charles when the monarch visited Cleveland as the Prince of Wales in 1977.

Mosbrook is also famously remembered for surviving the crash of WKYC's helicopter, Newshawk 3, during a blizzard in Ashtabula County in 1981, the station reported .

"Joe was all business. A solid reporter. Every story was 'soup to nuts,'" Paul Orlousky, his former colleague at WKYC, shared in an obituary obtained by cleveland.com .

Mosbrook was a noted jazz historian, too. The author of "Cleveland Jazz History," his newsletters for the Northeast Ohio Jazz Society were turned into broadcasts for Cleveland's NPR affiliate, WCPN, which has aired them weekly for the past 33 years.

Mosbrook is survived by his four children, Nancy Mosbrook Gecking, Joe Mosbrook, Charlie Mosbrook and Susan Mosbrook. The family will share memorial details in the coming weeks, Charlie posted.