From a Washington Post obit by Emily Langer headlined ” Bill Plante, CBS News correspondent for a half-century, dies at 84″:
Bill Plante, who became a fixture of American television sets as a globe-trotting CBS News correspondent, covering the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, four U.S. presidents and more than half a century of national and world affairs, died Sept. 28 at his home in Washington.
Mr. Plante joined CBS News as a reporter and assignment editor in 1964 — two years after Walter Cronkite assumed the anchor’s chair on the network’s nightly news — and retired as senior White House correspondent in 2016, having become in his own right one of the most visible newsmen on television.
