Harold Dow Death:Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Harold Dow, who helped shape the documentary program “48 Hours” and covers the abduction of Patricia Hearst and the Sept. 11 attacks, has died. He was 62.
Dow died Saturday morning in New Jersey, a spokesman for the network Louise Bashi said. He lived in Hackensack, but it was not clear if he was home.
Dow was a correspondent for “48 hours” in 1990. His 40 years with the network and its affiliates are also included reporting “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” and “CBS News Sunday morning.
“48 Hours” report on the fugitives brought him a George Foster Peabody Award. In addition, he won five Emmys for his work including coverage of 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the movement of U.S. troops in Bosnia in 1996.
“Insatiably curious, he was happy when he was on his way into the history, Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of” 48 hours of Mystery “, the statement said.” It was his humanity, who believed he had met everyone, even in tough interviews that really defined the greatness of his work. He was the most selfless man I know.
Dow has landed an exclusive interview with the victim of kidnapping Hearst in December 1976, and he was the first network interview with OJ Simpson after the 1994 murder of his ex-wife. He narrowly escaped a falling of the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001 the network said.
Dow was a contribution to the “48 hours Crack-Street, 1986 documents, which led to the creation of the weekly” 48 hours “. Before that, he was one of the anchor on “CBS News Nightwatch” and correspondent and reporter at CBS News Los Angeles bureau. He began his career in the network as a broadcast associate in 1972.
As one of the anchors and talk show host for KETV in Omaha, Nebraska, he was the first African-American television reporter in this city.
He is survived by his wife, Kathy, and their three children.
