Howard K. Smith

Howard K. Smith was an American journalist and television anchorman who was born in Ferriday, Louisiana, in 1914. After early newspaper work in New Orleans and London, he was sent to Berlin in 1940 and joined CBS under Edward R. Murrow, becoming one of the correspondents known as the Murrow Boys. His 1942 book Last Train from Berlin became a best-seller. He later served as CBS's chief European correspondent in London and moderated the program Behind the News. He worked at ABC from 1962 to 1979, where he co-anchored the ABC Evening News, first with Frank Reynolds and then with Harry Reasoner, and continued as an analyst. His honors included DuPont Awards in 1955 and 1963 and a Sigma Delta Chi Award in 1957. He also appeared in films, often as himself, among them The Best Man (1964), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982).