Roger Mudd, probing TV journalist and network news anchor, dies at 93
Source: Washington Post
Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon’s profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator’s White House prospects and who briefly shared the anchor job at his onetime rival, NBC News, died March 9 at his home in McLean, Va. He was 93. The cause was complications from kidney failure, said a son, Jonathan Mudd.
Mr. Mudd spent almost 20 years covering Capitol Hill, political campaigns and corruption scandals for CBS News. He did special reports on the Watergate scandal and its fallout, including the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. His 1979 interview of Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts was credited with crushing the senator’s presidential ambitions just as he was preparing to challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic nomination.
Kennedy awkwardly offered incomplete, rambling answers to basic questions about his family and personal life and was stopped cold when Mr. Mudd asked him directly: “Why do you want to be president?” There was a long, awkward pause before Kennedy could say a word. When Mr. Mudd asked what distinguished him from Carter, Kennedy failed to provide substantive answers to fundamental questions, giving viewers the impression that the senator was ill-prepared for the job of commander in chief.
The interview remains one of the most devastating in political history. Kennedy — whose brother John was president and whose brother Robert was assassinated on the campaign trail — lost his bid for the nomination and never mounted a run for the presidency again.For years, Mr. Mudd cultivated a straightforward, almost folksy manner on camera, and he was long considered the heir apparent at CBS to the venerable evening news anchor, Walter Cronkite.
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Wow. Forgot he was still around. Not many left outside of Dan Rather. R.I.P.
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He lived a long life. 
I hope they were able to impart some of their own lessons to those coming up now, who dearly need role models unassociated with the Fox-type ilk.
RIP, Mr. Mudd.
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The Harry Mudd episodes are among my favorites.
I remember his last broadcast and sign off and it was a sad day but at least he was around for awhile to throw some barbs from the sidelines like you see Dan Rather doing today, and he was "only" 65 when he signed off too. 
Some others from that era included Harry Reasoner and Harold K. Smith.
both locally and nationally when I was growing up. So I grew to like Walter Cronkite but Mudd, Reasoner, Smith, Chancellor and Brinkley were all veteran, very capable news broadcasters. I long for the days when they made an attempt to do the news broadcasts in an intelligent, truthful and mature manner.
I was too young to remember Cronkite covering the Kennedy assassination but I vividly remember him covering the Apollo 11 mission. If I remember correctly, the Eagle landed around 9 or 9:30 pm EDT. And I remember his show the 21st Century and we watched some his installments of "You Are There" in social studies class.
RIP to Roger Mudd and other news broadcasters from back in the day when the news was something we all felt we could trust.
