Leslie Griffith Biography – Leslie Griffith Wiki
Leslie Griffith was a writer and journalist who started her career in the newspaper business for the Associated Press and The Denver Post. She spent the next 25 years as a television journalist including as a news anchor and reporter at KTVU. She joined KTVU in 1986.
For 22 years, she served as a general assignment reporter and main anchor for the Original Ten O’clock News on KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area. For nine of those years, she was the sole anchor of the weekend news. On her 25th birthday, she was in Moscow reporting on the Cold War. Following her departure from KTVU in 2006, she has written for many online publications, including The Huffington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
She has been concerned with the problem of tuberculosis in circus elephants for many years. See her 2007 article in Truth-Out.org, “The Elephant in the Room.” More recently, she has been involved in making the movie When Giants Fall. In 2005, she developed the Leslie R. Griffith Woman of Courage Scholarship to help young women. She had a small part as a TV anchor in the 1999 movie, True Crime.
Some of the awards to her name include the Casey Award for “Candy Kids” with Roland De Wolk at KTVU, in 1998. (Search for “TV: Short Form” and “1998”), Emmy for Election Night coverage with KTVU News, 2001, Emmy for “My 20th Century: The Battle for California” for KTVU, 2001, Emmy for On Camera News Anchor, 2002, Emmy for “Lost Children of Romania” with KTVU, 2003, Genesis Award for KTVU’s Ten O’Clock News “Circus Elephants” feature on the treatment of circus elephants at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 2004. She was also the recipient of the APTRA Award for Best Anchor, in 2005.
Leslie Griffith Age
Her birth name is Leslie Ray Griffith. She was born on January 1, 1956, in Tomball, Texas, and died on August 10, 2022, in Mexico. She was 66 years at the time of her death.
Leslie Griffith Husband/Married
She lived in Berkeley, California. She was a single mother. Details of whether she had a husband or not have not been officially revealed.
Leslie Griffith Children
She lived in Berkeley, California, and had two daughters, Trenton and Carly, an adopted son Eric, and two grandchildren.
Leslie Griffith Death
She died on Wednesday, August 10, 2022, in Lake Chapala, Mexico. She was 66 years. According to KTVU, family members said she endured a years-long battle with Lyme disease. A family member confirms Griffith was suffering from the effects of Lyme Disease since she was bitten by a tick while living in Oregon in 2015. She had a home in Mexico and lived there since 2016, the family member said.
Tributes poured to her on social media. Many posts were from people who are longtime KTVU viewers and those who said they grew up with Griffth on the screen in their homes. But the news of her death was difficult for those who worked with her at KTVU.
“This is shocking news. I mean, this is someone I had known for, you know, past 25 years or so,” said former KTVU reporter John Sasaki, who now works as a spokesperson for Oakland Unified School District. “She was one of those really vibrant, vivacious, you know, very alive people. You always knew that she was there. She was just this really powerful figure in the newsroom…”
Leslie Griffith Cause of Death
She died on August 10, 2022, in Lake Chapala, Mexico. Family members said she endured a years-long battle with Lyme disease. However, no confirmation was given on whether she succumbed to the disease.
