Bernard Kalb, a veteran television journalist who worked at CBS and NBC News, has died. He was 100.
News of Kalb’s death was confirmed by The Washington Post, which reported that he died of “complications from a fall” on January 8 at his home in North Bethesda, Maryland.
Kalb was born on February 4, 1922 in New York. His journalistic career began at the New York Times at the end of World War II and after his military service. Kalb later became a foreign affairs and international television correspondent for CBS and NBC.
In 1984, during Ronald Regan’s presidency, he was appointed Deputy Secretary of State for Public Affairs. He later resigned over the “disinformation campaign” against Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi during Regan’s presidency.
Kalb would join CNN Reliable source 1993 as a talk show host and remained there until 1998.
Other programs in which Kalb would appear are included Bicentennial Minutes, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, CBS News Sunday Morning, The Bob Braun Show and Scarborough country.
Kalb is also a co-author of books with his brother Marvin. In 1974 they published Kissinger, a biography of Henry Kissinger, and in 1975 they published The Last Ambassador, a novel about the fall of Saigon.
Author: Armando Tinico
Source: Deadline
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