Please answer the following question: Facts: - residence: hometown : st. petersburg , florida - death cause: helicopter crash - death date: 26 june 1972 - spouse: christine r. vaughn , later christine hilsky - children: stephen vaughn - birth date: 9 december 1942 - name: odell wallace '' del '' vaughn , jr. . - occupation: television journalist with cbs news - parents: virginia louise blackwood and odell vaughn , sr. . - death place: harrisburg , pennsylvania - birth place: place of birth missing - alma mater: university of florida Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of del vaughn .
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odell wallace vaughn , jr. , known as del vaughn -lrb- december 9 , 1942 -- june 26 , 1972 -rrb- , was a reporter and correspondent for cbs news who died at the age of twenty-nine in a helicopter crash in harrisburg , pennsylvania , while he was covering the flooding resulting from hurricane agnes .in addition to vaughn , two other newsmen , sid brenner and louis clark of wcau in philadelphia , and the pilot , mike sedio , perished in the crash .the helicopter lost its rotor some three hundred feet above the capital city airport in harrisburg , crashed , and exploded on the runway .vaughn had previously worked at several radio and television stations , including outlets in his declared hometown of st. petersburg , florida , havre de grace in harford county in northeastern maryland , and philadelphia .from 1965 to february 1966 , he was a journalist in the united states navy , in which capacity he prepared world news broadcasts and had his own radio show , '' music for an afternoon '' .he studied at the university of florida at gainesville , and the university of tennessee at chattanooga , tennessee .vaughn was the only son of odell vaughn , sr. -lrb- born c. 1921 -rrb- , and the former virginia louise blackwood -lrb- 1922-2010 -rrb- , formerly of washington , d.c. , and residing at the time of her death in boiling springs in spartanburg county in northern south carolina .vaughn has two sisters , patricia vaughn wootten and her husband , bradley , of woodbridge , virginia , and jo vaughn peavey and her husband , marion , of spartanburg , south carolina .vaughn and his wife , christine , had a son , stephen vaughn .now christine hilsky , she resides with her husband , robert joseph hilsky , in largo in pinellas county , florida .