Well I was kind of disappointed he did not get a good of a tribute from ABC, Heck even CNN did better than ABC, I guess he and ABC did not get along well.
CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (8:25 p.m. Eastern time - August 6, 1991)
Announcer: This is a CBS News Special Report.
DAN RATHER, anchor:
CBS News correspondent Harry Reasoner is dead.
Reasoner was 68. He died this evening of cardiopulmonary arrest near his Connecticut home. He had been ill for a long time.
One of the best known and most honored journalists in broadcasting, Harry was a founding co-editor, with Mike Wallace, of 60 Minutes. Before that, he had coverd American politics, the civil...
Thanks for posting this. I didn't know very much about him. I'm ashamed to admit most of what I knew was the SNL sketch with Gilda Radner as "Baba Wawa", bashing "Hawwy Weasonew."
It's interesting that the only one in this clip that mentioned the tension between them was CNN.
Well I was kind of disappointed he did not get a good of a tribute from ABC, Heck even CNN did better than ABC, I guess he and ABC did not get along well.
efan2011 1 month ago
CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (8:25 p.m. Eastern time - August 6, 1991)
Announcer: This is a CBS News Special Report.
DAN RATHER, anchor:
CBS News correspondent Harry Reasoner is dead.
Reasoner was 68. He died this evening of cardiopulmonary arrest near his Connecticut home. He had been ill for a long time.
One of the best known and most honored journalists in broadcasting, Harry was a founding co-editor, with Mike Wallace, of 60 Minutes. Before that, he had coverd American politics, the civil...
0814ma 1 year ago
rights movement, and wars.
And for eight years he had worked at ABC before returning home to CBS.
Harry Reasoner, dead at age 68. There will be more about it on your late local news.
Announcer: This has been a CBS News Special Report.
0814ma 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this. I didn't know very much about him. I'm ashamed to admit most of what I knew was the SNL sketch with Gilda Radner as "Baba Wawa", bashing "Hawwy Weasonew."
It's interesting that the only one in this clip that mentioned the tension between them was CNN.
CarlD2 1 year ago