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Mr. Ailes at the Fox News studio in 2002.
Ángel Franco/The New York Times; thumbnail, Catrina Genovese/Getty Images, 2001
Roger Ailes
Died on May 18, 2017 at age 77
Mr. Ailes shaped the images that helped elect three Republican presidents and then became a dominant, often-intimidating force in American conservative politics at the helm of Fox News, until he was forced out in a sexual harassment scandal in 2016.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.