Bill Plante

(CBS News) 

Bill Plante has been a CBS News White House correspondent during the administrations of Ronald Reagan (beginning in 1981), Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. During the administration of the first President Bush, he was CBS News' State Department correspondent (1989-92). Plante's reports are seen regularly on "CBS This Morning," where he is Senior White House Correspondent, and the "CBS Evening News."

During the Reagan presidency, he covered the President's activities and major overseas trips, including the historic summit meeting in Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev. Plante was part of the CBS News team which received a 1986 Emmy Award for coverage of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit at Reykjavik, Iceland. He also covered Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign and was part of the CBS News team that won an Emmy Award for its coverage.

Plante has been based in CBS News' Washington bureau since December 1976. He has covered every Presidential campaign since 1968. Before his first White House assignment, he covered general and off-year elections, including the national political conventions. In 1968, he reported on the campaigns of Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon. During the 1972 campaign, Plante's assignments included covering candidates George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. In the summer of 1976, he covered Jimmy Carter and then, in the fall, Walter Mondale's vice presidential campaign. Plante was a floor reporter at the 1988 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.

At the State Department, he covered Secretary of State James Baker's trips to the Middle East, both before and after the Gulf War; the changing U.S.-Soviet relationship during that period; and the 1991 Middle East peace talks, among many others.

He served as anchor of the "CBS Sunday Night News" (1988-95).

Plante's reporting has not been restricted to politics, however. He covered the fall of Skylab and Pope John Paul II's visit to the United States, both in 1979. Earlier that year, following the Shah's departure from Iran, Plante reported on the revolution in that country and was one of two American journalists to cover a revolutionary trial in Teheran. He was the reporter on a 1977 five-part series examining America's criminal justice system for the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite."

Plante served as a correspondent in the Chicago bureau (1966-76) after he joined CBS News in June 1964 as a New York-based reporter/assignment editor. During that time, he served two of his four tours of duty in Vietnam, reporting on the bombing strikes over North Vietnam, the Vietnamization and pacification programs in the south and the fall of the governments in Vietnam and Cambodia. Plante also covered the civil rights movement in Mississippi and Alabama, including Dr. Martin Luther King's historic march from Selma to Montgomery.

He has received many major broadcast journalism awards. In addition to Emmy Awards for his coverage of the death of Princess Diana, the Reagan-Gorbachev summit and Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign, he won an Emmy for his investigative report on the U.S.-Soviet wheat deal broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" (1972). Plante's international work was recognized with a 1971 Overseas Press Club Award for his reports on the India-Pakistan War, and a second in 1975 for Best Radio Spot News Reporting for his coverage of the fall of the South Vietnam and Cambodian governments and evacuation of American personnel.

He was born in Chicago. Plante was graduated from Loyola University in 1959 with a bachelor's degree in humanities, and he studied political science at Columbia University (1963-64). He and his wife, Robin Smith, an award-winning independent documentary producer, live in Washington, D.C. Plante has six sons.

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We finally know after 50 years who actually killed JFK, from an extensive interview with LBJ's mistress of 30 years, Madeleine Duncan Brown, and information released by E. Howard Hunt's son, St. John Hunt, that he obtained from his father in the months before his death. Hunt was knowledgeable of the operation and the involvement of the rogue CIA operatives in JFK's death. The interview with Madeliene Duncan Brown by Robert Gaylon Ross is available online. See link below.
This is Robert Gaylon Ross interview with Lyndon Johnson's mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown. She claims that LBJ told her that he had John F. Kennedy killed. As LBJ's mistress of 30 years she was involved in his political machine in Texas and the parties they had. The men would go off into a separate room and have "meetings", during the parties. One such "meeting" took place on 11-21-1963, the day before JFK was shot in Dallas. When LBJ came out of the room he was livid, grabbed her by both arms up into his face saying, "After tomorrow they won't be making a laughing stock out of me any more." Dallas was actually the 3rd plan to make an attempt on JFK. The planning began in 1960, after JFK won the Democratic party nomination and LBJ was marginalized. He was first offered the VP slot, and then they tried to take it back. JFK's father rigged the election between his son and Nixon in 1960, by getting the Mafia to throw the electoral college vote in West Virginia to JFK, only to have RFK continue to track down the Mafia on racketeering charges. Nixon won the popular vote, and would have won the electoral college, but for the interference. Alot like Florida in 2000. Karl Rove and James Baker stopped a full State RECOUNT so they could get into power, when it was obvious that Al Gore would win, since only a couple hundred votes separated them. Then 11 million votes for John Kerry went missing in 2004, so they could stay in power. Since Rove is still involved witht eh GOP as a very corrupting influence, we should probably expect something similar in the 2012 election. I can't help but wonder what really happened in 2010, when Rove specified that the GOP would gain at least 80 seats as everyone else was predicting probably 45, possibly 60. There's 87 new GOP Freshman in Congress. ( RECOUNT, released in May 2008, was reviewed by Newsweek in the May 26, 2008 issue in an article titled , "Bush vs. Gore--Take 2" covers what really happened as Baker and Rove worked to stop the full state recount, and Was the Presidential Election of 2004 Stolen by Steven Freeman & Joel Bleifuss, answer="yes", what happened was statistically impossible, a dozen math experts studied it for months)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1929769365635576415&hl=en Ross interviews Madeleine Ducan Brown for an hour and 20 minutes, which is recorded and released to the Internet. She names names, talks about their parties, LBJ's temper, the night before the assassination in Dallas and the day of, and why she was coming forward after all this time. She had a son with LBJ in the late 1940s, about 2 years after they met. Money was set aside that took care of both of them after the son was born. As an attorney her son tried to get access to the funds in the 1990s feeling that the money was rightfully his. He was then kidnapped while he was sick with cancer and undergoing treatments, which were denied to him for months. Once the lawsuit to get ahold of the money was dismissed, because he didn't appear on the court date since he was being held in another town, he was dumped off at some VA facility. Then the money stopped coming. He died a few months later. Had they not done that to her son, she might have never said anything. The most important thing is about these two accounts, one by LBJ's mistress the other by E. Howard Hunt, is the accounts do a really good job of cross-referencing each other, while giving different perspectives.
Saint John Hunt Link to Purchase E - Book or Autographed Manuscript ... The true story of notorious American spy and Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt and his son ... saintjohnhunt.com The Last Testament of E. Howard Hunt
The true story of notorious American spy and Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt and his son, Saint John Hunt.
Including startling new information about Watergate and the J.F.K. assassination with photos, documents and
the handwritten memos by E. Howard Hunt from his famous death bed "last confession."
There was a Rolling Stone article on the book by Saint John Hunt at the time it was released April 5, 2010.
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The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt
Rolling Stone | April 5th Edition
ERIK HEDEGAARD
He was the ultimate keeper of secrets, lurking in the shadows of American history. He toppled banana republics, planned the Bay of Pigs invasion, and led the Watergate break-in. Now he would reveal what he'd always kept hidden: who killed JFK.