Updated Saturday, July 5, 2008 0:00 am TWN, Reuters

BBC veteran reporter Charles Wheeler dies

LONDON -- The BBC’s longest-serving foreign correspondent, Charles Wheeler, has died after a 60-year career during which he covered Watergate, Vietnam and the Iraq war, the BBC said on Friday. He was 85. He witnessed some of the biggest events of the post-war period, including the 1956 Hungary uprising, the rise and fall of Richard Nixon and the assassination of Martin Luther King.

Colleagues described him as the greatest journalist of his generation. “To audiences and to his colleagues alike, Charles Wheeler was simply a legend,” said BBC Director General Mark Thompson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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