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Car Accident Attorney Reports: Award-Winning Newsman Killed in Car Crash

A veteran and award-winning correspondent was killed in a morning car accident on Friday, January 13^th, when he collided with a propane tanker.    Richard Threlkeld was 74 years old, and taken to Southampton Hospital where he was pronounced dead.  Earl Fryberger Jr., the driver of the propane tanker, was not injured in the accident.   The East Hampton New York Police Department are investigating the cause of the accident.
Richard Threlkeld worked at both CBS News and ABC News for over 27 years.  For 25 years he was a reporter, bureau chief and anchor for CBS News, and covered Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Persian Gulf War, The Vietnam War and the Patty Hearst kidnapping and trial.  At CBS, he reported on Sunday mornings in 1979; worked with Lesley Stahl from 1977 to 1979 as co-anchor of The CBS Morning News, and alongside Dan Rather for the CBS Evening News. Threlkeld moved to ABC News in 1981, where he reported for “World News Tonight”.  In 1989, he returned to CBS News, where his final assignment was as a Moscow correspondent.  He wrote a book based on his experience with the assignment, published in 2001: “Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire”.  He last appeared on CBS in 2004 for the 25^th anniversary of CBS.
Richard Threlkeld won an Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University award and several Emmy and Overseas Press Club Awards.  His fatal New York car accident was survived by his wife of 28 years, Betsy Aaron, two children, two grandchildren, and a brother.

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