Robert Pierpoint

Robert Pierpoint (May 16, 1925 – October 22, 2011) was an American broadcast journalist who worked for CBS News.

Born in Redondo Beach, California, Pierpoint served in the United States Navy during World War II. In 1948, he graduated from the University of Redlands.^[1] Before becoming one of CBS's White House correspondents, Pierpoint covered the Korean War and appeared on the first edition of See It Now in 1951. Recreating the role, his voice appears in "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", the final episode of M*A*S*H.

On November 22, 1963 he was riding in a press bus in the motorcade for President Kennedy when the president was assassinated.^[2] He also covered the State Department for CBS, and appeared frequently on Charles Kuralt's Sunday Morning broadcasts until his retirement.

As a close associate of Edward R. Murrow on radio and television, he was seen as having been a member of the second generation of Murrow's Boys.

Pierpoint also served as White House correspondent for six presidential administrations, from Eisenhower to Carter. His memoirs from this period are detailed in his book, At the White House (1981).

Family

Pierpoint and his wife, Patricia Adams Pierpoint, had four children, including actor Eric Pierpoint, and five grandchildren. He is buried in the Redlands, California, Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.^[3]

Sources

Office of Medical History: Army Air Ambulances

References

↑ Longtime CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint dies
↑ Sidey, Hugh (March 31, 2003). "80 Days That Changed the World The Infamous Day in Dallas". Time.
↑ Robert C. Pierpoint at Find a Grave

Vietnam War correspondents

Print journalists	R. W. Apple Peter Arnett Michael Birch Peter Braestrup Malcolm Browne Wilfred Burchett Dickey Chapelle Robert Elegant Gloria Emerson Bernard Fall Frances FitzGerald Sylvana Foa Joseph Galloway Martha Gellhorn Al Gore David Halberstam Michael Herr Seymour Hersh Marguerite Higgins Takeshi Kaikō Stanley Karnow Donald Kirk Steve Kroft John Pilger Gareth Porter John Sack Murray Sayle Jonathan Schell Sydney Schanberg Neil Sheehan Alexander Shimkin John Steinbeck IV Matthew V. Storin Richard Tregaskis Kate Webb

Photo- journalists	Eddie Adams David Burnett Larry Burrows Robert Capa Gilles Caron Dickey Chapelle Charles Chellapah Neil Davis David Douglas Duncan Charles Eggleston Horst Faas Sean Flynn Chas Gerretsen Barbara Gluck Philip Jones Griffiths Dirck Halstead Henri Huet David Hume Kennerly Catherine Leroy Don McCullin Co Rentmeester Tim Page Toshio Sakai Kyoichi Sawada Dick Swanson Dana Stone Shigeru Tamura Neal Ulevich Nick Ut

Broadcast journalists	Martin Bell Ed Bradley Charles Collingwood Walter Cronkite Murray Fromson Bernard Kalb Peter Kalischer Douglas Kiker Steve Kroft Charles Kuralt George Lewis Ike Pappas Julian Pettifer Bill Plante Dan Rather Clete Roberts Morley Safer Bob Simon Richard Threlkeld Joe Schlesinger

CBS Chief White House Correspondents

Charles Collingwood Robert Pierpoint George Herman Dan Rather Bob Schieffer Lesley Stahl Rita Braver Scott Pelley John Roberts Jim Axelrod Chip Reid Norah O'Donnell Major Garrett

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