Richard Threlkeld dies at 74

ABC News states veteran news correspondent Richard Threlkeld continues to be wiped out inside a vehicle accident. The 74-year-old Threlkeld died Friday morning in Amagansett, N.Y., and was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital. He resided nearby in East Hampton. Threlkeld, who labored for ABC News from 1982-89, spent nearly all his career at CBS News, retiring in 1998. He would be a reporter, anchor and bureau chief for CBS in excess of two-and-a-half decades. He covered the Persian Gulf War and also the Vietnam War, the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial, and also the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. His final assignment at CBS was as Moscow correspondent. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com