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May 10, 2021 4:04 PM UTC
ERIE, Pa., May 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Free To Choose Network, a global media company, confirmed today that Founder and Executive Chairman Bob Chitester, 83, passed away, after a seven-year battle with cancer.
“Far exceeding medical predictions, Bob Chitester, founder and chairman of Free To Choose Network, passed away on May 8, 2021 after a seven-year battle with cancer,” said Rob Chatfield, President and CEO of Free To Choose Network. “His profound legacy will carry on, but our friend and teacher will be greatly missed.”
Chitester is best known for producing the 10-part, award-winning PBS series and international best-seller book, Free To Choose, with Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman. The series, which reached around 15 million initial viewers, and book changed the world by introducing Friedman’s free-market principles of personal, economic and political freedom. Former Soviet countries used th