Longtime MDA Telethon Anchor Ed McMahon Dies

TUCSON, Ariz. June 23, 2009 — Ed McMahon, one of America’s best known television personalities and longtime anchor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, died today at age 86 in Los Angeles.

McMahon, of Beverly Hills, Calif., was an MDA corporate member from 1974 to 1988 and served as a volunteer MDA national vice president since 1992. He became a member of MDA’s board of directors in 2001.