'Roots' producer David L. Wolper dies
David L. Wolper, the producer of the groundbreaking miniseries "Roots" and several other critically acclaimed projects, has died of congestive heart disease and complications of Parkinson's disease.
The 82-year-old producer died in his Beverly Hills home Tuesday evening, Wolper's spokesman Dale Olson told the Associated Press.
"Roots," about an African American family whose ancestry could be traced to a captured African slave, was seen by more than half the country when it first ran on ABC in 1977.
— Greg Braxton
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