Harry Reasoner whose wry wit and low-key delivery were main slays in network news casting for four decades died Aug. 6 that night at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk Conn He was 68
He died of cardiopulmonary arrest said Tom Goodman a CBS News spokesman
Reasoner had been in declining health for some time. He had operations for lung in 1987 and 1989. On June 12 he underwent surgery for removal of blood clot on the brain and later developed pneumonia.
The unflappable Reasoner who retired from regular participation on60 Minutes on May 19 spent most of his career at CBS News where he served two hitches as a reporter and correspondent: from 1956 to 1970 and from 1978 to his retirement.
Sikhs remember Reasoner for his excellent coverage of the Sikh struggle just prior to Bluestar in 1984.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 16, 1991
