FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran TV political correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and the United States’ space program has died in Washington, D.C. Bruce Morton was 83.

CBS News says Morton died from cancer on Friday at his home.

Morton spent 29 years at CBS, winning six Emmy Awards. He reported on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and covered the unrest in China’s Tiananmen (tyahn-ahn-mehn) Square in 1989.

He left CBS to join CNN in 1993. He retired in 2006.

Morton was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, and grew up in Chicago. He got his start in the news business while still a student at Harvard College, doing radio newscasts for Boston’s WORL.

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