Roger Mudd has died. The 93-year-old veteran journalist succumbed to kidney failure.
Mudd worked for CBS, NBC, and PBS during his 40-year career, but he was best known for his interview with Senator Ted Kennedy in 1979. In it, he asked Kennedy a simple question: why does he want to be President? Kennedy’s flub is reportedly what caused Kennedy to lose the Democratic nomination.
While it was a bust for Kennedy and his presidential campaign, it earned Mudd a Peabody Award. In his later years, he taught at Princeton and Washington and Lee University, his alma mater. He also hosted documentaries on the History Channel from 1995 until he retired in 2005. Mudd is survived by three sons and a daughter, 14 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Source: New York Times
