Smith, Howard K(ingsbury) (1914-2002)

US television correspondent and anchor. He joined CBS in 1941-61 in Berlin, Germany, during World War II, returning in 1957 as Washington correspondent and later bureau chief. He chaired the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, joining ABC in 1961, and later co-anchoring ABC Evening News 1969-75. Becoming increasingly conservative politically, he later worked as a commentator 1975-79.

He was born in Ferriday, Louisiana; and was a Rhodes scholar.