Terry Drinkwater

Terry Drinkwater

Terry Drinkwater (May 9, 1936 – May 31, 1989) was an American television and radio journalist best known for his 25 year career as a correspondent with CBS News. Drinkwater was also an anchorman for the West Coast editions of the "CBS Evening News", reporting on events that occurred since the original East Coast version with Walter Cronkite was taped.

Drinkwater attended Pomona College, where he co-founded KSPC radio. [ cite web | title=Radio Days February 2006 | publisher=Pomona College | url=http://www.pomona.edu/atpomona/feb06.shtml] He graduated in 1958. His first big break in broadcasting came when he was hired in 1959 as general manager of Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM, in Los Angeles. [ cite web | title=Historical events at Pacifica | publisher=WBAI.net CdPNY | url=http://www.wbai.net/hist/hist_gen_from_kpfk.html]

Drinkwater joined CBS News in 1964. Drinkwater and fellow CBS News correspondent, Roger Mudd, were on scene in the "Embassy Ballroom" of the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. His primary beat for CBS News was the western states; he covered such notable events as the 1973 kidnapping of Patricia "Patty" Hearst and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.cite web | title=CBS's Terry Drinkwater Dies | publisher=The Washington Post | date=June 1, 1989 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1193785.html] Drinkwater once received a 90-day suspension from CBS for faking the news by posing a wine-company employee as a satisfied customer.Fact|date=December 2007

Drinkwater filed his last report for CBS News in August 1988. He died at his home in Malibu, California at the age of 53 after a six year battle with cancer. At the time of his death, he was senior correspondent in the Los Angeles Bureau of CBS News.

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