Roger Mudd (1928-2021) American Broadcaster

Roger Mudd (1928-2021) American Broadcaster
Roger Mudd
Birth 9 Feb 1928
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Death 9 Mar 2021 (aged 93)
McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
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Television News Journalist

He will be remembered for his tenure as a correspondent with CBS’s nightly program “CBS News with Walter Cronkite.”

He went on to NBC and during the 1980s, he was co-moderator with Marvin Kalb on “Meet The Press.” Born Roger Harrison Mudd, he was educated at Washington and Lee University and in 1953, he received his Master’s Degree in History from the University of North Carolina. Following graduation, he cut his teeth in the industry at the Richmond News-Leader and worked his way on to radio.

In 1961, he joined CBS and during the next two-decades, he covered both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy’s assassinations. Mudd interviewed Senator Robert F. Kennedy moments before he was gunned down in Los Angeles during his presidential campaign (1968). He covered the Senate’s debating of Civil Rights, the Watergate scandal and in 1979, he conducted a memorable and in-depth interview with Presidential Candidate and Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Additionally, from 1966 until 1971 he anchored “The CBS Saturday News.”

In 1981, he joined NBC News after CBS chose Dan Rather to succeed Walter Cronkite. During Mudd’s tenure, he served as Chief Washington Correspondent and co-anchored with Tom Brokaw the “NBC Nightly News” from 1982 until 1983. In 1985, he moved on to PBS where he contributed to segments for the “MacNeil- Lehrer News Hour.” From 1995 until 2004, he was a host with the History Channel. In 2008, he penned his autobiography titled “The Place To Be: Washington, CBS and the Glory Days of Television News.”

Roger Mudd (1928-2021) American Broadcaster