Oregon Media Insiders

Last weekend, I wrote about C-Span’s interview with former CBS News Correspondent Roger Mudd. Tonight, C-SPAN aired part two of Brian Lamb’s interview with Roger Mudd. Such compelling television. Had I been born many years earlier, I would have given my all to be a reporter in Washington during the 1960’s and 1970’s. So much was happening in this country at that point in time, and Washington DC was the epicenter. Roger Mudd had the opportunity to cover such matters as the passage of the first, meaningful civil rights legislation in 1964. Plus he covered the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Later, he covered the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, the Watergate scandal and Edward Kennedy’s run for the presidency in 1979.

From what he described in the interview, working out of the CBS Bureau in Washington DC was magical. The convergence of so much history; truly amazing stuff.