Neil Strawser, who anchored CBS News radio coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination, died Saturday. He was 78.
Strawser suffered a heart attack at his Washington, D.C., home and was later pronounced dead at George Washington University Hospital, CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco said Tuesday.
For 34 years, Strawser worked in Washington as a CBS News radio and television reporter. He anchored CBS Radio for four straight days after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
Strawser was also the only television journalist admitted into the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base during the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis.
He left journalism in 1986 to serve as a Democratic spokesman for the House Budget Committee.
Poet-critic Tory Dent wrote of living with HIV
Tory Dent, a poet and critic whose searing work about living with AIDS won several awards, has died. She was 47.
Dent died Friday at her Manhattan, N.Y., home of an infection associated with AIDS, said her husband, Sean Harvey.
Since being diagnosed as HIV positive at age 30, Dent published three books of poetry: “What Silence Equals” in 1993, “HIV, Mon Amour” in 2000 and “Black Milk,” which came out just before her death.
“HIV, Mon Amour” won several awards, including the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. It contained unflinching accounts of her daily existence battling AIDS.
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