The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia

Rex Morgan & "friend"
"Morgan in the Morning"
WFIL-TV
1964

Here's three photos of "Rex" Morgan on Channel 6, WFIL-TV. One of his programs was called, "Morgan in the Morning."

(left to right) unidentified female, Rex Morgan, unidentified female & Phil Sheridan
"Morgan in the Morning"
WFIL-TV
1964

(left to right) unidentified male & Rex Morgan
1964

"Rex Morgan" was the host of Morgan in the Morning, where he showed old movies & cartoons. Morgan was a colonel in the United States Army. During the second World War, he was a mortician for the Army and it was he who performed the autopsy on German Field Marshal Goering. "Rex" was the one who embalmed the body of United State General George Smith Patton in December 1945. He was one of the hangmen at the Nuremberg Trials after the war.

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