Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
FILE - Bill Moyers speaks during the wake for R. Sargent Shriver in Washington on Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
Moyer died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. Moyers' son William said his fatehr died at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York after a “long illness.”
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