Roger Mudd, the longtime CBS News correspondent and anchor who later teamed briefly with Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News, has died.
He was 93.His son, Jonathan Mudd, told The Washington Post that the cause was kidney failure.Mudd was a familiar face for decades on network television, starting on CBS in the early 1960s, as he reported on Washington, politics and government.
He became a star correspondent and filled in for Walter Cronkite in the anchor chair in the late 1960s and early 1970s and on the weekend CBS Evening News broadcasts.But no moment stood out more in Mudd’s career than an interview he did in 1979 with Sen.
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