Helen M. Johnson; Helped Guide Career of Tom Brokaw

Helen M. Johnson, 66, longtime news producer with NBC-TV on a national level and after that producer of the weekly “News Conference” program on Channel 4 here. Miss Johnson, who left the station in 1986, had her beginnings in the 1956 national political conventions and over the years was credited with helping guide the careers of Tom Brokaw, Bob Abernethy, Tritia Toyota and others. In Burbank Jan. 20 of brain cancer.