Sara Lee Kessler
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Sara Lee Kessler is the former anchor for New York City's Channel 9 nightly local broadcast news program in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Currently she is health reporter for New Jersey Network's nightly half hour NJN News broadcast.
[edit] Working with WWOR-TV
Ms. Kessler was hired by WWOR-TV in 1976, and became a news anchor in 1989. She also won an Emmy for her news coverage of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In 1994, Ms. Kessler was fired as a news anchor from WWOR. She subsequently sued the television station for religious discrimination, among other charges. Ms. Kessler, who is an Orthodox Jewish woman, was asked to come in on Saturdays for work, which is forbidden by the Jewish religion. She was later able to successfully sue the station for $7.3 million. 1
[edit] Trivia
Kessler was among the first to interview John Lennon upon him becoming a US citizen after years of resistance from the US Government.
