Former CBS News White House Correspondent Bill Plante Dies at 84 Bill Plante, the iconic CBS News journalist, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 84 due to respiratory failure. Image address Plante, a legend in the Washington media scene, left CBS News in 2016 after 52 years. On June 1, 1964, he began working for CBS News as a reporter/assignment editor in New York. Over the next fifty years, he would complete four tours in Vietnam (1964, 1967, 1971–1972, and 1975), as well as reporting from Iceland, Moscow, and Teheran for the network. From 1988 to 1995, he was the face of CBS's flagship evening newscast and he covered the White House for CBS News during the administrations of four different presidents. Plante spoke with Dr. King during the march from Selma in 1965. I learnt from folks like [Mike] Wallace, [Walter] Cronkite, and many more," he said in an interview with TVNewser in 2014. For the first time, I got a taste of what professional reporting entailed. This isn...