R.I.P.: CBS Radio/TV's Bill McLaughlin

Bill McLaughlin

Bill McLaughlin, an award-winning diplomatic and foreign correspondent who headed bureaus in Germany and Lebanon for CBS News in the late 1960s and 1970s, died early Friday.

He was 76 and lived in France.

McLaughlin died from cardiac arrest in a Waterbury, Conn., hospital. He was visiting friends in the United States.

McLaughlin's television news career spanned 27 years, nearly all of it with CBS News; he left for two years in late 1979 to report for NBC News as its United Nations correspondent.

He spent a decade overseas on his CBS news assignments, including the Paris bureau, where he met his wife, the former Huguette Cord'homme, who survives him. He covered the gamut of overseas events, from the Vietnam War to terrorism to the conflicts in the Middle East, appearing on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite," CBS Radio News and other CBS News broadcasts, including "CBS Reports" documentaries.

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