Roger Harrison Mudd was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News.
29 Facts About Roger Mudd
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Roger Mudd worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel.
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Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press and American Almanac TV programs.
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Roger Mudd was the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.
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Roger Mudd was born in Washington, DC His father, John Kostka Dominic Roger Mudd, was the son of a tobacco farmer and worked as a map maker for the United States Geological Survey.
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Roger Mudd's mother, Irma Iris Harrison, was the daughter of a farmer and was a nurse and lieutenant in the United States Army Nurse Corps serving in the physiotherapy ward in the Walter Reed Hospital, where she met Roger's father.
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Roger Mudd attended DC Public Schools and graduated from Wilson High School in 1945.
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Roger Mudd earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Washington and Lee University, where one of his classmates was author Tom Wolfe, in 1950, and a Master of Arts in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953.
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Roger Mudd was a member of Delta Tau Delta international fraternity.
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Roger Mudd was initiated as an alumnus member of Omicron Delta Kappa at Washington and Lee in 1966.
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Roger Mudd began his journalism career in Richmond, Virginia, as a reporter for The Richmond News Leader and for radio station WRNL.
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Roger Mudd produced a half-hour TV documentary in summer 1957 advocating the need for a third airport in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
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CBS News was located on the third floor of WTOP's studios at 40th and Brandywine in northwest Washington, DC Roger Mudd quickly came to the attention of CBS News and moved "downstairs" to join the Washington bureau on May 31,1961.
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For most of his career at CBS, Roger Mudd was a Congressional correspondent.
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Roger Mudd was the anchor of the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News and frequently substituted on the weekday and weeknight broadcasts when regular anchormen Douglas Edwards and Walter Cronkite were on vacation or working on special assignments.
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In 1964, Roger Mudd became nationally known for covering the two-month filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, starting in late-March.
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Roger Mudd hosted the seminal documentary The Selling of the Pentagon in 1971.
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Roger Mudd won Emmys for covering the shooting of Gov.
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Roger Mudd is best known for an interview with Senator Ted Kennedy broadcast on November 4,1979.
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Roger Mudd co-anchored the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw from April 1982 until September 1983, when Brokaw took over as sole anchor.
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From 1984 to 1985, Roger Mudd was the co-moderator of the NBC Meet the Press program with Marvin Kalb, and later served as the co-anchor with Connie Chung on two NBC news magazines, American Almanac and 1986.
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Roger Mudd was a visiting professor at Princeton University and Washington and Lee University from 1993 to 1996.
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Roger Mudd was a primary anchor for over ten years with The History Channel, where many of his programs are still repeated in reruns.
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Roger Mudd retired from full-time broadcasting in 2004, and remained involved, until his death, with documentaries for The History Channel.
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Roger Mudd was survived by 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Roger Mudd was a collateral descendant of Samuel Roger Mudd, the doctor who was imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Roger Mudd was active as a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, with which he helped to establish its popular "Ethics Bowl", featuring student teams from Virginia's private colleges debating real-life cases involving ethical dilemmas.
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Roger Mudd was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
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Roger Mudd died from complications of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia, on March 9,2021, at the age of 93.