This year, TVNewsCheck reported on the deaths of outstanding men and women who shaped television as actors, lawmakers, producers, business people, journalists, on-air personalities and more. Here’s a look back at some of those influencers, each linked to their obituary.
This year, TVNewsCheck reported on the deaths of outstanding men and women who shaped television as actors, lawmakers, producers, business people, journalists, on-air personalities and more. Here’s a look back at some of those influencers, each linked to their obituary.
Mitchell Krauss Dies: CBS News Correspondent Wounded In Sadat Assassination Was 90 Deadline 1/29/2021
Mitchell Krauss, a Middle East correspondent for CBS News who was wounded in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, died on January 27 at Northern Dutchess Hospital in New York, near his home in Rhinebeck. He was 90 and died from kidney failure.
Krauss was the correspondent and the bureau chief in Cairo during a 25-year career at CBS News. On October 6, 1981, he was covering a military parade and was near enough to the Egyptian leader to suffer a shrapnel wound to his leg in the grenade and automatic weapons attack that killed Sadat.
Former CBS News Middle East correspondent and Cairo bureau chief
Mitchell Krauss died Wednesday in Dutchess County, N.Y. of kidney failure.
He was 90.
Krauss spent 25 years at CBS News (1972-1997), though he may be best known to the readers of a certain age as the journalist who was wounded in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. On Oct. 6, 1981, he was covering a military parade and was near enough to the Egyptian leader that he suffered a shrapnel wound to his leg in the grenade and automatic weapons attack that killed Sadat. One of few reporters on the scene, he was able to file an audio report that was broadcast later as part of a CBS Special Report on the assassination. Krauss then managed to get on a flight to Rome with the CBS videotape of the event before the Cairo airport was shut down.