Roger Mudd
Once considered Walter Cronkite's heir apparent, he was on the scene when Robert Kennedy was killed and later asked Ted Kennedy what seemed to be a routine question.
Roger Mudd, the Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No. 1 network anchorman — not that he wanted that, anyway — has died. He was 93.
Mudd died Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia, his son Jonathan Mudd told
Mudd joined CBS News in 1961 and served as a congressional and national affairs correspondent and as a regular substitute for Walter Cronkite on the