http://news.yahoo.com/newsman-richard-threlkeld-dies-car-accident-194604153.htmlNEW YORK (AP) — Richard Threlkeld, a far-ranging and award-winning correspondent who worked for both CBS and ABC News during a long career, has been killed in a car crash on New York's Long Island.
The 74-year-old Threlkeld died Friday morning in Amagansett, N.Y., when his car collided with a propane tanker. He was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital, according to the East Hampton, N.Y., Police Department. He lived in nearby East Hampton.
The driver of the tanker, Earl Fryberger Jr., of Coatesville, Penn., was not injured, said police, who are investigating the accident.
Threlkeld spent more than 25 years at CBS News before retiring in 1998. He was a reporter, anchor and bureau chief who covered the Persian Gulf War and the Vietnam War, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the execution of Gary Gilmore.
He was one of the last journalists evacuated from Phnom Penh and Saigon when those cities fell to the Communists in 1975.
CBS News correspondent Bob Simon was with him when Saigon fell.
"Richard was old school in the best sense," Simon said. "He really didn't give a damn about being on camera. He didn't do many stand-ups. He always figured there
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Photo credit: Newsday photo | Former CBS newsman Richard Threlkeld was killed after his Mini Cooper was involved in an early-morning accident on Montauk Highway at the intersection of Abrahams Path in Amagansett. (Jan. 13, 2012)
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