The man who landed the first-ever TV interview with a Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, has died today. Veteran journalist Daniel Schorr was 93 years old. He spent two decades at CBS and reported at National Public Radio starting in 1985.
“I was privileged to know Dan Schorr for 25 years and cherish him as a fierce journalist, and a tender friend and father,” NPR’s Scott Simon said. “We used to joke, ‘I’m not Dan’s son. But I play Dan’s son on the radio.’”
He will be missed.
Read the full obituary here.
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