John Hart (journalist)

John Hart (born February 1, 1932)^[1] is a retired American television journalist who worked for several different television networks during the 1960s through the 1990s.

Career

First known to the American public as a correspondent for

Among Hart's awards were Peabody, Overseas Press Club, Weintal, Edward R. Murrow, Christopher, ACE, Emmy.

He received a B.A. degree from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, in 1953. From 1954 to 1956 he served in the U.S. Army. From 1956 to 1960 he worked at

From 1960 to 1964 he was a writer/reporter for KNXT in Los Angeles. In 1964 he became bureau manager and correspondent of the CBS-owned television station news bureau in Washington, D.C. During 1965–1966 he covered the South for CBS News, followed by a six-month assignment in Vietnam. During 1968 he covered the presidential campaigns of Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

Hart joined NBC News as a political correspondent in February 1975, serving in the Washington, D.C. bureau. In January 1977 he became the national affairs correspondent. In November 1979 he was named chief European correspondent, based in London. That month he interviewed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran. ^[3]

References

"Khomeini Interview: Networks Face Ethics Issue," New York Times, November 19, 1979

External links

• Transcript of August 1970 interview of President Richard Nixon (with Bernard Kalb) for CBS
• Clip of Hart anchoring NBC News Digest, February 1986. (On Sept. 16, 2022, this link led to a YouTube notice, “This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.”) on
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