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An American broadcast journalist, correspondent, and anchor, born in Washington, D.C. Roger's father, John Kostka Dominic Mudd, worked as a map maker for the United States Geological Survey, while his mother, Irma Iris Harrison, worked as a nurse and lieutenant in the United States Army Nurse Corps and served in the physiotherapy ward in the Walter Reed Hospital, where she met Roger's father. Mudd attended public schools in the capital, and in 1945, he graduated from Wilson High School. He obtained his BA in History from Washington and Lee University in 1950 and his MA in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953. Having launched his journalistic career in Richmond, Virginia, Roger moved to Washington, D.C. in the late 1950s, and worked as a reporter for WTOP News. In 1957, he produced a half-hour TV documentary urging the need for a third airport in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Mudd worked as a news anchor and correspondent for NBC News and CBS News with his last job before retiring being an anchor for The History Channel. The news icon Roger Mudd retired from journalism and broadcasting in 2004, although he stayed actively involved in producing documentaries for The History Channel until his death. He is known for CBS Reports (1963-1979), Time Machine: True Stories of the NYPD (2000), and CBS Weekend News (1966).
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