Name Bill Plante | Role Journalist | |
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Children Chris Plante, Micheal Plante, Dan Plante Education Loyola University Chicago, Columbia University Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story - Segments Similar People Chris Plante, David Martin, Bill D Moyers, Don Hewitt Profiles | ||
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Bill Plante (born January 14, 1938) is a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964. His most recent work was as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS, reporting regularly for CBS This Morning as well as for the CBS Evening News. Plante covered the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama as a national correspondent for CBS News. He also served several tours of duty in South Vietnam covering the Vietnam War, the first in 1964 and the last in 1975 during the Fall of Saigon at the end of the war. He anchored CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995. He retired in November 2016. He is the stepfather of syndicated radio talk show host Chris Plante.
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