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Richard Threlkeld, 74, died three weeks ago in a car accident near his home in East Hampton on the tip of Suffolk. Threlkeld leaves behind a wife of 28 years, a brother, two daughters, two grandchildren, and an awe-inspiring career as a journalist.
Threlkeld collided into a propane tanker, whose driver, Earl Fryberger Jr, of Pennsylvania, was not hurt. Threlkeld was rushed to Southampton Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival.
Threlkeld was born in 1937 in Iowa and grew up in Illinois. He attended Northwestern's renowned School of Journalism, after which he worked up to a position as producer-editor at CBS News in New York in 1966, where he remained for 25 years. He covered Vietnam, elections from Goldwater-LBJ to Clinton, RFK's assassination, Patty Hearst's kidnapping, Gary Gilmore's execution, and the Persian Gulf War. He was one of the last reporters to be evacuated from Vietnam in 1975.
He was known for his modesty, preferring not to be on camera because the news was more exceptional, although he did co-anchor the morning news from 1977 for several years. He worked with Lesley Stahl and Dan Rather until switching to ABC in 1981 for something new and fresh as a "roving analyst." He then returned to CBS in 1989, where he eventually worked as Moscow correspondent. He wrote a book of his experiences there after retiring in 1998.
Threlkeld has won several Emmys and an Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Award.
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