Roger Mudd
Air Date: August 22, 2008
Few people have a more comprehensive view of U.S. history in the last century than Roger Mudd.
The Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist has a career in broadcasting spanning more than 50 years, witnessing and covering some of the most turbulent times in America.
From his start as an ambitious radio reporter in Washington, D.C., to anchoring CBS News, NBC News and NBC’s Meet the Press, Mudd has seen and covered it all.
In this intimate interview, Enrique Cerna talks with Roger Mudd about some of the pivotal moments in his life and career: witnessing the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968; filling in on the CBS Evening News for Walter Cronkite, but eventually losing the job to Dan Rather; and a groundbreaking 1971 interview with then-Presidential candidate Ted Kennedy that many say cost Kennedy the Democratic nomination.
