Posted on 01/09/2023 7:52:56 AM PST by Borges
Bernard Kalb, a veteran correspondent for CBS, NBC and The New York Times who also made a brief and unhappy foray into government as a State Department spokesman, died on Sunday at his home in North Bethesda, Md. He was 100.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Claudia Kalb, who said his health had declined after a fall on Jan. 2.
In his many years on television, Mr. Kalb’s sonorous voice, thick eyebrows and command of detail became familiar to millions of viewers. He covered wars, revolutions and the diplomatic breakthroughs that presaged the end of the Cold War.
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rip
I thought my English vocabulary was pretty good but I had to look it up:
Sonorous: having a deep, pleasant sound
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sonorous
RIP. I hope I live that long in good health.
Nice run.
Legend. RIP.
It was his love of cigars that killed him so young!
;-)
another Media propagandist- Thumper Rule in effect
I keep seeing ads on television saying the first person to live to 150 has probably already been born. Too bad Bernie loved his cigars. The anti-tobacco groups has been telling us for years that each day of heavy smoking reduces one's life by one half day. Smoking from age 14 to 100 according to the anti-tobacco groups Bernie cut at least 43 years from his life.
Rest in Peace, Bernie.
His younger brother, Marvin, is still alive at 92.
Kalb quit this post two years later to protest what he called “the reported disinformation program” conducted by the Reagan Administration against the Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi.[2] Kalb said, “you face a choice, as an American, as a spokesman, as a journalist, whether to allow oneself to be absorbed in the ranks of silence, whether to vanish into unopposed acquiescence or to enter a modest dissent. Faith in the word of America is the pulse beat of our democracy”
My father was another guy killed by the cigars he smoked all his life.
He passed away at 96!
RIP, Bernie.
I distinctly remember him, on-air.
100! RIP Bernie!
Genetics rule...
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