09-29-2022, 01:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-29-2022, 01:08 PM by Eric the Green.)
This is the kind of person that *I* remember and value.
William Madden Plante (January 14, 1938 – September 28, 2022) was an American journalist and correspondent for CBS News.[1] He joined the network in 1964 and was noted for being the network's senior White House correspondent for over three decades.
After completing his studies at Columbia, (Bill) Plante started working for CBS News in June 1964 as a reporter and assignment editor.[3][4] He was sent to South Vietnam later that year to report on the Vietnam War, the first of four tours as a correspondent.[2][4] His final tour in 1975 saw him cover the fall of Phnom Penh and fall of Saigon; this earned his CBS News team the "Best Radio Spot News Reporting from Abroad" award from the Overseas Press Club.[4][5]
In March 1965, Plante went to Selma, Alabama and was there when state troopers assaulted marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in what has been referred to as "Bloody Sunday".[2] He returned later that month to report on the Selma to Montgomery marches and interviewed Martin Luther King Jr. during the event.[2][4]Plante was promoted to correspondent the following year and was posted to the network's Chicago bureau. He was there for ten years and reported on the 1966 riots in the city, protests at Ohio University, the strike by United Auto Workers in 1970, and Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance five years later. During this time, he also covered events overseas, including the state funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which earned him two more Overseas Press Club awards for spot radio news.[4]
Plante last worked as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News, reporting for CBS This Morning as well as for the CBS Evening News. He covered the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama as a national correspondent for CBS. He served four tours as a news correspondent in South Vietnam covering the Vietnam War, the first was in 1964 and the last one was in 1975 during the Fall of Saigon at the end of the war.[6] He anchored the CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995.[7] He retired in November 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Plante
William Madden Plante (January 14, 1938 – September 28, 2022) was an American journalist and correspondent for CBS News.[1] He joined the network in 1964 and was noted for being the network's senior White House correspondent for over three decades.
After completing his studies at Columbia, (Bill) Plante started working for CBS News in June 1964 as a reporter and assignment editor.[3][4] He was sent to South Vietnam later that year to report on the Vietnam War, the first of four tours as a correspondent.[2][4] His final tour in 1975 saw him cover the fall of Phnom Penh and fall of Saigon; this earned his CBS News team the "Best Radio Spot News Reporting from Abroad" award from the Overseas Press Club.[4][5]
In March 1965, Plante went to Selma, Alabama and was there when state troopers assaulted marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in what has been referred to as "Bloody Sunday".[2] He returned later that month to report on the Selma to Montgomery marches and interviewed Martin Luther King Jr. during the event.[2][4]Plante was promoted to correspondent the following year and was posted to the network's Chicago bureau. He was there for ten years and reported on the 1966 riots in the city, protests at Ohio University, the strike by United Auto Workers in 1970, and Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance five years later. During this time, he also covered events overseas, including the state funeral of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which earned him two more Overseas Press Club awards for spot radio news.[4]
Plante last worked as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS News, reporting for CBS This Morning as well as for the CBS Evening News. He covered the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama as a national correspondent for CBS. He served four tours as a news correspondent in South Vietnam covering the Vietnam War, the first was in 1964 and the last one was in 1975 during the Fall of Saigon at the end of the war.[6] He anchored the CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995.[7] He retired in November 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Plante