Obelit Yadgar aka Obie Yadgar, is an Assyrian

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-American

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 radio personality from Glendale

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, Wisconsin

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Yadgar was born in Baghdad

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, Iraq

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. Raised in Tehran

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, he moved to the United States in 1957. He was drafted into the US Army's 4th Infantry Division, serving as a combat correspondent in Vietnam

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 in 1967 and 1968.

Yadgar spent eight years at radio station WFMR

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 in Milwaukee during the 1970s, and another 10 years at the station during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was named "Best Morning Announcer" by Milwaukee Magazine

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. In 1996 he moved to the Chicago

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 radio station WNIB

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. In 2002 he moved back to WFMR but was let go during an early-2004 move by the station to satellite-delivered programming.

He contributes to the Assyrian magazine Zinda, and has made appearances on Chicago Public Radio

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