Richard Threlkeld dies at 74

ABC News states veteran news correspondent Richard Threlkeld remains destroyed in the vehicle accident. The 74-year-old Threlkeld died Friday morning in Amagansett, N.Y., and was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital. He were living nearby in East Hampton. Threlkeld, who labored for ABC News from 1982-89, spent almost all his career at CBS News, retiring in 1998. He will be a reporter, anchor and bureau chief for CBS more than two-and-a-half decades. He covered the Persian Gulf War as well as the Vietnam War, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial, as well as the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. His final assignment at CBS was as Moscow correspondent. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com