Thaindian News

By Gina Gomez
Aug 22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Harold Dow, the Emmy Award-winning CBS News Correspondent breathed his last yesterday morning. The journalist was 62 year old. A CBS spokeswoman confirmed the news to the media saying that the veteran journalist passed away unexpectedly yesterday morning. However, the cause of his death is not yet revealed. Harold Dow is survived by his wife Kathy and three children.

The sudden death of “48 Hours Mystery” reporter has shocked his friends and family. CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus said in a statement that CBS News family has lost one of its oldest and most “talented” members, whose absence will be felt by many and whose presence and reporting skills touched nearly all of CBS News broadcasts. On behalf of the whole CBS news the Sports President expressed deepest condolence to his wife Kathy and three children. Harold Dow had been a correspondent for the CBS TV investigative news series “48 Hours” since 1990. He served as a contributor to the same broadcast since its premiere on January 1988.

Harold Dow dedicated 40 years of his life with CBS network which included reporting for “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” and “CBS News Sunday Morning.” Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of “48 Hours Mystery” said that it was Harold Dow’s humanity which was felt by everyone he encountered, even in his “toughest” interviews the late investigative reporter truly defined the greatness of his work. Susan Zirinsky said that Harold Dow was the most “selfless” man she had known in her life. Harold Dow covered many of the most important stories of his time which includes 9/11 Twin Towers incident, return of prisoners of war from Vietnam, the movement of American troops into Bosnia, the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster, and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, who he interviewed exclusively in 1976.