Covering the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash tragedy left Tom Wills with traumatic memories, but lasting friendships
Tom Wills was the only Jacksonville reporter to have walked amongst the wreckage of the plane in the woods, and he shared the tragic story of Lynyrd Skynyrd with thousands of mourning hometown fans and beyond.
‘Good stories, well told’: Tom Wills shares secret to 60 successful years as broadcast journalist
For nearly five decades, you’ve allowed News4JAX anchor Tom Wills to come into your homes -- and these days straight to your phones -- to deliver the news. He'll do it for the last time on Friday before he enters a well-deserved retirement.
Channel 4 news anchor Tom Wills shares his special memories of Mary Baer and John Gaughan
I'd like to share with you a couple of my John and Mary memories. I want to start with some of the very first comments that former news anchor Deborah Gianoulis and I made about Mary 30 years ago--and we stand by them today. "Mary Baer has fit into our newsroom from the first day she got here. It seems like she's been here all along."