One of Liberia’s broadcast icons Frederick Russell Deshield is dead. According to family sources, Fred Deshield or Freddy D as he was popularly known on Radio during his broadcast career, died on Monday, March 31, 2008 in the Liberian capital, Monrovia.

He was 59. 

The Late Fred Deshield worked with the Liberia Broadcasting System presenting many radio musical programs. In the 1980s when Liberia established its first FM radio station (ELBC-FM 89.9) Fred became its first Director. 

He left the broadcaster in the early 1990s and most recently served as an Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Information Cultural Affairs & Tourism. 

The body of the Late Fred Deshield will be buried on Tuesday, April 15, following funeral service at the First United Methodist Church in Monrovia. 

Fred Deshield is the second Liberian broadcast icon to die this month. Former FM Disc Jockey Louis A Wiles Jr. known as LAW by many of his colleagues and listeners died in Maryland the United States of America on March 19^th following a brief illness.  

The bodies of the Late Louis Wiles and his mother Rae Wiles who died ten days earlier were buried on Saturday, March  29^th.

 

Writes Patrick Manjoe
Dallas, Texas