Ted Koppel continues as a special contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning.
26 Facts About Ted Koppel
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Ted Koppel's parents were German Jews who fled Germany after the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
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The factory moved in 1936, but when war broke out in Europe in 1939, Ted Koppel's father was declared an enemy alien and imprisoned on the Isle of Man for a year and a half.
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Ted Koppel was born in 1940, shortly after his father was taken away.
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Ted Koppel was a member of the Alpha Chi chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Ted Koppel remembers almost every conversation he ever had with anybody.
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Ted Koppel then went to Stanford University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in mass-communications research and political science.
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Ted Koppel had a brief stint as a teacher before being hired as a copyboy at The New York Times and as a writer at WMCA Radio in New York.
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Ted Koppel was scheduled to do a short report, but a delay during the crisis forced him to ad-lib for an hour and a half.
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Ted Koppel began covering the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama.
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Ted Koppel accepted the assignment only after the network agreed to send his wife and their two children to Hong Kong so they could be nearby.
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Ted Koppel returned in 1968 to cover the campaign of Richard Nixon, before becoming Hong Kong bureau chief, and US State Department correspondent where Koppel formed a friendship with Henry Kissinger.
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Ted Koppel was among those traveling to China with US President Richard Nixon in 1972.
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Ted Koppel spoke about it with the USC US-China Institute in their "Assignment: China" documentary series about American media coverage of China.
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Ted Koppel likened the trip to a "journey to the dark side of the moon".
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In 1990, Ted Koppel interviewed Nelson Mandela in a US-style town hall meeting.
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Ted Koppel became known for his work as the host of a late night news program called Nightline.
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Ted Koppel spent twenty-five years anchoring the program, before leaving ABC in late November 2005.
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Some liberal groups suggested that Koppel was a conduit for the government's point of view and accused him of favoring conservatives when selecting guests.
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On November 22,2005, Ted Koppel stepped down from Nightline after 25 years with the program and left ABC after 42 years with the network.
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Koppel and Discovery Communications parted ways in November 2008, terminating their contract six months early, prompting rumors that Koppel would be hired for NBC's Meet the Press.
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Ted Koppel was a member of the student-run WAER and keeps in touch with the student media at Syracuse.
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Ted Koppel is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Ted Koppel became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1963.
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Andrew Koppel was found dead in an apartment in New York City on May 31,2010, reportedly after a day-long drinking binge.
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Ted Koppel speaks German and French, in addition to his native English.