Richard Threlkeld was an American television news correspondent who spent 25 years with CBS News.
10 Facts About Richard Threlkeld
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Richard Threlkeld earned a degree in history and political science from Ripon College.
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Richard Threlkeld then earned a master's degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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Richard Threlkeld held positions at WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky, and WMT-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Richard Threlkeld joined CBS News in 1966 and served as a war correspondent in Vietnam in 1970.
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Richard Threlkeld stayed with CBS until December 1981, serving as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News from 1977 to 1979.
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Richard Threlkeld covered John Paul II's visit to Mexico in 1979.
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Richard Threlkeld went to ABC News in 1982 and was given the special assignment of filing a weekly Status Report segment for World News Tonight, which sought to give a deeper perspective to the week's most important story.
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Richard Threlkeld authored the book Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire in 2001.
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Richard Threlkeld was killed in an automobile accident on January 13,2012, in Amagansett, New York.