CBS News correspondent Robert C. Pierpoint - who covered six presidents, the Korean War, President Kennedy's assassination, and the Iranian hostage crisis - died Saturday in California, his daughter said.
Mr. Pierpoint, 86, who retired in 1990, died of complications from surgery at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Marta Pierpoint told the Associated Press. He had broken his hip Oct. 12 at the Santa Barbara Retirement Community where he lived with his wife, Patricia.
After making his name covering the Korean War - a role he reprised when he provided his radio voice for the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983 - Mr. Pierpoint became a White House correspondent during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, a position he would hold through the Jimmy Carter administration.
