Thursday, August 22, 2013

Former 'Today' news anchor Lew Wood dies

This 1970s image released by NBC shows Lew Wood from the NBC News "Today" show in New York. Wood, a veteran broadcast journalist who covered the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy for CBS and later anchored the news report for NBC's "Today" show, died Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013 at a hospice in Riverside County, Calif. He was 84. (AP Photo/NBC) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lew Wood, who marched with Martin Luther King, covered John F. Kennedy's assassination and was a news anchor for NBC's "Today" show during a distinguished broadcast career that began with the dawn of television, has died at age 84.








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