Les Smith, a veteran reporter whose familiar face and steady voice guided Memphis viewers through nearly 40 years of news, has died. He was 75.
His family said Smith died Wednesday morning after a brief battle with lung cancer, his family announced.
Smith’s path in journalism began in 1975 at a television station in Jefferson City, Missouri. Stops in Tampa and West Palm Beach, Florida, helped shape his craft before he made Memphis his home in 1983…