Howard K. Smith

Howard K. Smith (1914 to 2002) was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman and political commentator, born in Ferriday, Louisiana. In 1940 he joined CBS in Berlin under Edward R. Murrow and became one of the war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys, interviewing Nazi leaders and writing the best-selling Last Train from Berlin. After the war he served as CBS chief European correspondent and moderated the CBS program Behind the News. He was removed from CBS after his 1961 documentary report on the Birmingham civil rights violence. At ABC from 1962 he co-anchored the evening news with Frank Reynolds and later Harry Reasoner, and he was the first national television commentator to call for Richard Nixon to resign over Watergate.