Bill Plante was a journalist who covered the White House for CBS News for more than 30 years.
- Died: September 28, 2022 (Who else died on September 28?)
- Details of death: Died at his home in Washington, DC of respiratory failure at the age of 84.
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Decades of news
Plante joined CBS News in 1964. Among his earliest assignments was reporting from Vietnam in four visits over 11 years, covering the Vietnam War through his 1975 report on the fall of Saigon. Plante reported from Selma, Alabama in 1965 as civil rights marchers were assaulted by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge; later in the year, he interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) during a subsequent march. Other stories in his early career included the disappearance of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Plante became the network’s senior White House correspondent during the Reagan administration and continued covering the White House until his 2016 retirement. He also anchored “CBS Sunday Night News” from 1988 to 1995.
Tributes to Bill Plante
Full obituary: The New York Times
