Posted on 12/17/2014 10:19:47 AM PST by Borges
Richard C. Hottelet, the last of the original "Murrow's Boys," the pioneering group of wartime journalists hired by CBS radio newsman Edward R. Murrow, has died. He was 97.
CBS News spokesman Kevin Tedesco said that Hottelet died early Wednesday morning at his home in Wilton.
Hottelet was a foreign correspondent for the United Press in Berlin at the start of World War II ? and even spent several months in a Nazi prison ? before joining CBS in London in 1944.
He reported from many battlefronts, and went on to become CBS' correspondent for the United Nations, an assignment he began in 1960. He resigned in 1985 to join the U.S. Mission to the U.N. as its public affairs counselor, leaving that post in 1987 over differences with Ambassador Vernon A. Walters.
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I remember seeing him on many news programs back in the 1950s and 60s.
Met evil during the war and was involved in combat including bailing out of a bomber when it was shot down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Hottelet
Murrow was as red as Cronkite and the rest of the clowns at CBS
Wilton CA?
RIP.
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