1. Michele Clark died in the December 1972 crash of United Airlines Flight 553 at Chicago's Midway Airport, while investigating the Watergate scandal.
14 Facts About Michele Clark
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Michele Clark's death has been widely described as cutting short a promising career.
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Michele Clark had a younger brother, named Harvey Michele Clark, who became a reporter at WCAU.
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Michele Clark attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, followed by Grinnell College and Roosevelt University.
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Michele Clark graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1972.
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Michele Clark began her journalism career at WBBM-TV, a CBS station in Chicago.
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Michele Clark became a CBS News correspondent at a time when few women and few African Americans worked as network correspondents, and was hired at around the same time as three other women: Connie Chung, Lesley Stahl, and Sylvia Chase.
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Michele Clark was the first Black woman network reporter for CBS Television.
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Michele Clark was slated to become a correspondent on 60 Minutes in 1973.
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Michele Clark died on December 8,1972, at the age of 29, in the crash of United Air Lines Flight 553 at Midway Airport in Chicago.
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At the time of her death, Michele Clark was working on reporting related to the Watergate scandal, which was still being covered up.
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Michele Clark has been identified as a "star" journalist who died at the start of a promising career.
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Michele Clark has continued to be memorialized on CBS television.
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Michele Clark was portrayed by actress Prema Cruz in the 2023 HBO miniseries White House Plumbers.