People Remembered: Richard Threlkeld
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Richard Threlkeld in 1982.
The New York Times reports: Richard Threlkeld, who in his 33 years as a correspondent for CBS and ABC News covered wars, presidential campaigns, assassinations and the collapse of the Soviet Union, died Friday morning in a car accident on Long Island. He was 74.
Threlkeld’s car collided with a propane tanker on a highway in Amagansett, N.Y., the police in East Hampton, where he lived, said. Threlkeld was alone in his car, the police said, and the driver of the truck was not injured. “Richard Threlkeld had the kind of name and kind of looks that could have made him a reporter in the movies, but unlike a reporter in the movies, he could write his own scripts,” Lesley Stahl, with whom he was co-anchor of “CBS Morning News” from 1977 to 1979, said in a statement. “In fact, he was one of our best writers and reporters.”
He won six OPC Awards: 1986* Edward R. Murrow Award, 1980 and 1983 David Kaplan Award, 1975* and 1970* Ben Grauer Award and the Lowell Thomas Award in 1975*. Search the archive for the titles of his various award wins >>
* indicates reporting team win
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