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  • Richard C. Hottelet, Last of Original 'Murrow's Boys,' Dies

    12/17/2014 10:19:47 AM PST · by Borges · 5 replies
    ABC - AP ^ | 12/17/2014 | STEPHEN SINGER
    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...