William Madden Plante (January 14, 1938 – September 28, 2022) was a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964.
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What happened to Bill Plante?
The legendary CBS News correspondent Bill Plante passed away from respiratory failure Wednesday at the age of 84.
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A Washington journalism institution, Plante retired from CBS News in 2016 after a whopping 52 years at the network. He joined CBS News on June 1, 1964, as a New York-based reporter/assignment editor, and would spend the next five decades with the network, traveling to Vietnam on four separate tours (1964, 1967, 1971-’72, 1975) and Iceland, to Moscow and Teheran.
He’d cover every presidential campaign from 1968 through 2016, serve as a CBS News White House correspondent for four Presidents, and anchor the CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995.
In 1965, Plante interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King on the march from Selma. Plante’s last work was as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS, reporting regularly for CBS This Morning as well as for the CBS Evening News. Plante covered the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama as a national correspondent for CBS News.
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