Charles Collingwood

Charles Collingwood was an American journalist and a pioneer television newscaster. He was also one of the original "Murrow Boys", an enormously respected and influential group of journalists who were associates of Edward R. Murrow at CBS during the 1940s & 1950s (other notable "Murrow Boys" include William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Richard C. Hottelet, and later Walter Cronkite, David Schoenbrun, Daniel Schorr, George Polk and Marvin Kalb). Collingwood eventually became Chief Correspondent of CBS, and hosted the network's 'Eyewitness to History' program. In the late 1960s, he was one of the first American journalists (along with Harrison E. Salisbury of the New York Times) to be allowed into North Vietnam, which was then at war with the U.S. He wrote a spy novel, 'The Defector' (1970), based on his experiences in that country. Charles Collingwood retired in 1982, and died only three years later.