Longtime CBS News reporter Richard Threlkeld, who went over to ABC for a few years before retiring in 1998, was killed in a car crash this morning near his home in upstate New York, AP says. He was 74. A familiar face during the Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather eras at CBS, Threlkeld’s countless reporting assignments included the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial.
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Longtime CBS News reporter Richard Threlkeld, who went over to ABC for a few years before retiring in 1998, was killed in a car crash this morning near his home in upstate New York, AP says. He was 74. A familiar face during the Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather eras at CBS, Threlkeld’s countless reporting assignments included the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial.
Richard Threlkeld, retired newsman, dies in car crash
Friday, January 13, 2012
Longtime CBS News reporter Richard Threlkeld, who went over to ABC for a few years before retiring in 1998, was killed in a car crash this morning near his home in upstate New York, AP says. He was 74. A familiar face during the Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather eras at CBS, Threlkeld’s countless reporting assignments included the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial.
