Marine veteran Hodding Carter III, who served as the State Department s spokesman during the Iran hostage crisis and promoted media innovation as head of the Knight journalism foundation, died May 11 at a retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 88.
Hodding Carter III ’57 was a prominent journalist before becoming spokesman for the State Department during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. He would later serve as University trustee.
Hodding Carter III, an Emmy-winning journalist and political commentator who covered the civil rights movement in the South, served as the State Department's spokesman during the Iran hostage crisis and promoted media innovation as head of the Knight journalism foundation, died May 11 at a retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 88.