Tim Russert, 1950-2008
"Meet the Press" moderator and NBC News Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert poses for photographers in New York, Oct. 23, 2006. Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday, June 13, 2008 in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity. He was 58.
Author: CBS News Staff
Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Willens
