Longtime TV host Ed Sullivan dies in New York City 40 years ago today (Oct 13 1974)


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(Sunday, October 13, 1974) — Ed Sullivan, who entertained hundreds of millions of Americans over his long career as Broadway columnist and host of the long-running televised Sunday evening variety show, died tonight at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital of cancer. He was 73 years old.