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Tom Fenton, former CBS News correspondent, dies at age 94
Former CBS News correspondent Tom Fenton, a Navy veteran and an award-winning reporter who was known as the dean of American foreign correspondents, died Tuesday morning, his son confirmed to CBS News. He was 94.
Tom Fenton Jr. said in a statement that his father died in Novato, California.
“He spent 34 cherished years at CBS, a time he truly loved,” the younger Fenton said.
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Tom Fenton joined CBS News in 1970, starting his decades-long career for the network in Rome before moving to bureaus in Tel Aviv, Israel; Paris; London; and Moscow, covering major developments in Europe, the Middle East and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Fenton covered the downfall of communism in the USSR and the rise of the ayatollah in Iran. He reported on the India-Pakistan War in 1971, the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 and other conflicts. In 1997, he was part of the award-winning CBS News team that covered the death of Princess Diana.
“Tom is the embodiment of the wise and worldly CBS News correspondent,” then-CBS News President Andrew Heyward said when Fenton retired in 2004. “He is equally at home dodging bullets on a battlefield or prowling the corridors of power in London or Moscow or Jerusalem. In a world where civility is increasingly a casualty of competitive pressures, Tom holds steady to that most old-fashioned of virtues: He’s a true gentleman.”
Before his time at CBS News, Fenton worked for the Baltimore Sun in the 1960s. He served in the Navy for nearly a decade after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1952.
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A Washington, D.C., police officer died Wednesday after being shot when a gun he was trying to recover from a storm drain accidently fired, officials said.
The officer, Wayne David, was a member of the Metropolitan Police Department for more than 25 years, said Executive Assistant Chief Jeffery Carroll.
“Wayne is a true hero to the District of Columbia, and today he gave his life to serve the visitors and the residents here,” Carroll said. “We will never forget that.”
Carroll said earlier Wednesday that officers saw someone get out of suspicious vehicle in the Northeast part of the city, take off on foot and jump onto Interstate 295. Officers saw the person throw a gun in a storm drain before fleeing on the back of a motorcycle, he said.
Police were trying to get the gun out of the drain when it went off, striking the officer at least once, Carroll said. Police are searching for the suspect who placed the gun in the drain, he said.
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