The Assassination of Richard Threlkeld, a journalist and an extensive and award-winning, who worked on both, CBS, ABC News during his long career, in a car accident on Long Island in New York.
He died in 74 years Friday morning, Mr. Threlkeld in Amagansett, New York, when his car collided with a truck to move the propane tank. He was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital, according to East Hampton, New York, the police department. He lived in the neighborhood of East Hampton.
Police investigating the incident, the tanker driver was not hurt.
Mr. Threlkeld has spent more than 25 years at CBS News before retiring in 1998. The chief correspondent and anchor and the bureau, covering the Persian Gulf War and the Vietnam War, and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst trial and the murder of Robert Kennedy, and the execution of Gary Gilmore.
It was one of the last journalists who have been evacuated from Phnom Penh and Saigon when the city fell to the Communists in 1975.
CBS News correspondent Bob Simon with him in Saigon.
"Richard was the old school at its best," said Simon. "I really do not give a damn about being on camera. Do not make a lot of stand-ups. I always had pictures more interesting than him."
Mr. Threlkeld covered the presidential campaigns of candidates ranging from Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson in the 1960 Bill Clinton in the 1990's.
I was born on November 30, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, grew up in the northwest suburb of Barrington. He graduated from college (Wisconsin) Ripon and earned an MBA from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.
During his career, and won several Overseas Press Club and Emmy.
He is survived by his wife, Betsy Aaron, a CBS correspondent and former CNN, two children and two grandchildren.
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