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CBS News veteran Roger Mudd, who derailed a Kennedy with one question, dies at 93 Reuters/Virginia Photo:Reuters Mudd died on Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in Virginia. Roger Mudd, the longtime CBS News political correspondent who famously helped sink Edward Kennedy’s White House ambitions by asking in an interview why the senator wanted to be president, leaving the candidate flustered, died on Tuesday at age 93. Mudd, who covered politics and national affairs at CBS for two decades before working at NBC News, PBS and the History Channel, died at his home in McLea...

Mudd died on Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in Virginia.

to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "He was a journalist of enormous integrity and character. He would not budge if he believed he was right and would not compromise his ethical standards," CBS News President Susan Zirinsky said in a statement about Mudd to CNN. In a written statement to the outlet, Mudd's family also added: "Roger loved and collected books, read good, old-fashioned newspapers, front to back, every morning of his life, and watched the evening news as much as he could stand." Mudd and his ...