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Charles Osgood, veteran CBS newsman and longtime host of "Sunday Morning," dies at 91

Often referred to as CBS News' poet-in-residence, the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winner also wrote and anchored "The Osgood File," his daily radio show which ran for more than four decades.

He grew up in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Jersey, and spent his youth taking piano lessons, delivering newspapers, and beginning a lifelong relationship with radio by listening to greats like Edward R. Murrow and Lowell Thomas report on World War II, and the entertainment shows popular at the time, such as "Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy." He became its announcer and met band arranger John Cacavas, with whom he collaborated for years afterward, eventually writing the lyrics for "Gallant Men," which was a Top 40 hit in December 1966. Beyond the newsroom Osgood made his theatrical debut as the narrator of Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who," the animated feature film adaptation of the beloved children's book.

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