Tucker Carlson’s father, veteran journalist Richard “Dick” Carlson, has died at 84. The former Fox News anchor announced in an X post that his father died on Monday at home in Boca Grande, Florida after battling an illness for six weeks.

Obituary for my father. Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his… pic.twitter.com/4lMygMkSIT

Richard Carlson, a controversial fixture in West Coast TV journalism during the 1970s, died Monday at his Florida home after a long illness. Carlson's death was announced by his son Tucker, the conservative pundit and former Fox News host,