Even during the 1960s and 1970s, the late anchor, Bill Plante documented the 1964 killings of three civil rights activists.
This became the basis for the film Mississippi Burning, and he interviewed Martin Luther King Jr. as he marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
Plante reported in Vietnam four times: in 1964, 1967, 1971-1972, and 1975, when Saigon fell. He received an Emmy for his three-part examination of the 1972 US-Soviet wheat agreement.
Plante joined CBS News as a reporter and assignment editor in 1964, two years after Walter Cronkite became the network’s nightly news anchor.
Plante resigned as senior White House correspondent in 2016 and has become one of television’s most recognizable newsmen in his own right.
Plante attended Jesuit institutions and graduated from the private Loyola Academy in Chicago in 1955 before enrolling at Loyola University Chicago, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in humanities in 1959.
Plante had his first taste of broadcasting when he was 17 or 18 years old, when he worked at a classical music radio station in Evanston, Illinois, and dropped out of Chicago-Kent law school after a buddy led him to a position at a Milwaukee television station.
Plante was 84.
How Did Bill Plante Die?
According to his wife, Robin Smith, the cause was respiratory failure. Mr. Plante obtained a journalistic scholarship after acquiring experience on the air.
Source: Vimbuzz.com
