Died Richard Threlkeld, correspondent and award-winning long-term, both those who worked for CBS and ABC News during his long career, in a car accident in Long Island, New York.
Died Threlkeld (74 years) Friday morning in Amagansett, New York, when his car collided with a truck to move the tank of propane gas. He was pronounced dead at a hospital in Southampton, according to East Hampton, New York Police Department. Lived in the Middle Hampton. close
Driver of the tanker, Earl Fryberger, Jr., of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. , Was not injured, police said they were investigating the incident.
Threlkeld has spent more than 25 years at CBS News before retiring in 1998. The chief reporter and presenter and offices that covered the Persian Gulf War and the Vietnam War, and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst trial, the killing of Robert F.. Kennedy, and the implementation of Gary Gilmore.
It is one of the last journalists who have been evacuated from Phnom Penh and Saigon in those cities fell to the communists in 1975.
The CNN correspondent Bob Simon, CBS with him at the fall of Saigon.
"Richard was the old school at its best," said Simon. "It really does not give a damn about being on camera, did not stop many ups. I thought it was always more interesting than the material itself."
Threlkeld cover the presidential campaigns of candidates ranging from Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton in 1960 in 1990. I worked with Leslie Stahl, and participated in a group of "Morning News, CBS" from 1977-79, and presented a report on "Sunday morning CBS" Since its founding in 1979, and the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather."
In 1981, he decided to go up and back and forth from ABC News, without fanfare and without CBS.
"I do not like horse trading, and I am not a horse," said Threlkeld told The Associated Press at the time. "Then I decided to ABC was the best place for me to go, it would have been error to a verbal agreement, and return it to CBS to see what can be done."
CBS described as "the Rolls Royce of television news - the traditional, reliable and completely predictable too," while ABC "is like a Ferrari - very fast, unpredictable always, but fun.
"At this stage of my life," said Threlkeld, after 43 years, "I'm in the mood of the Ferrari."
At ABC News, said the "World News Tonight" in the role for himself as a kind of roving analyst news.
On Friday, called ABC News President Zine El Abidine Ben Sherwood Threlkeld "excellent writer and master storyteller ... always full of ideas."
Threlkeld returned to CBS News in 1989. The task was his last on the CBS correspondent in Moscow. From that experience he wrote a book, "Dispatches from the former evil empire," which was published in 2001.
His last appearance on CBS in 2004 in the "Sunday morning", when he came out of retirement to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the issue of submission of the report.
Threlkeld originally joined CBS News in 1966 as editor and producer based in New York.
Was born November 30, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, raised in Barrington, Illinois, graduated from the College (Wisconsin) Ripon and earned a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
During his career, and won several Overseas Press Club Award, Emmy and Alfred I. du Pont, Columbia University Award.
It is survived by his wife 28 years, Betsy Aaron, a former correspondent for CBS C and, brother, Robert, of Port Townsend, Washington, and two children, Susan Paulukonis, Alameda, California, and Julie Threlkeld Yonkers, New York, and two grandchildren .
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