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Phil Jones Dies: Longtime CBS News Correspondent Who Reported On Vietnam, Watergate, Politics Was 87
Phil Jones, who as a CBS News correspondent covered some of Washington’s most momentous political battles including Watergate and President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, has died. He was 87. The network said that Jones died over the weekend in Florida. Jones began his career at an Indiana TV station, and then left to work at WCCO-TV […]
Phil Jones, who as a CBS News correspondent covered some of Washington’s most momentous political battles including Watergate and President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, has died. Jones was present on the White House lawn as Richard Nixon resigned and left on Marine One, and then covered the administration of his successor, Gerald Ford. “Some media critics credited the success of the CBS Evening News to the excellence of the roving correspondents rather than to the anchor,” Brinkley wrote.
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