Cynthia Littleton Business EditorDon Farmer, a TV news veteran who was one of CNN’s original anchors, died Wednesday in Naples, Fla., after battling a rare neurological disease known as PSP.Farmer and his wife, fellow broadcast journalist Chris Curle, were among the first anchors hired in 1980 when Ted Turner launched CNN.
Among Farmer’s early assignments was a week of live coverage from Cuba that included an interview with then leader Fidel Castro.Farmer got his start in TV at NBC News and moved to ABC News in 1965.
He covered the Civil Rights movement and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and logged an interview with all four Beatles at the height of Beatlemania.Farmer grew up in the St.
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