
Veteran journalist
Daniel Schorr passed away today at the age of 93. Born in the Bronx in 1916,
Schorr began a 20-year career as a foreign correspondent in Western Europe in 1946, and later joined
CBS News in 1953 as one of
Murrow's Boys — the legendary news team put together by
Edward R. Murrow. Some of the stories that
Schorr reported on during his long career include the
Marshall Plan; the building of the
Berlin Wall in 1962; President Johnson's
Great Society; the
Watergate break-in; and
CIA assassination plots in the 1970s. He joined
CNN in 1979 as its senior Washington correspondent and later moved to
NPR in 1985 as host of
Weekend Edition. His
last commentary for NPR aired on July 10 of this year.