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Roger Mudd, longtime network TV newsman, dies at 93

by Dave Bryan
| March 11, 2021 12:03 AM

Roger Mudd, the longtime political correspondent and anchor for NBC and CBS who once stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president, has died. He was 93.

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