Longtime CBS News producer, Bernard Birnbaum dies

Helped NEW YORK - CBS News producer, Bernard Birnbaum, who died in public opinion on issues of poverty in the Watergate scandal, when working alongside Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt, said the network. Birnbaum died on Thanksgiving Day at Stony Brook University Medical Center at Stony Brook, NY, after a heart attack, while their relatives to visit, "said CBS News in a statement Saturday. His death was announced by the Black Network News Friday. He was 89th Birnbaum CBS career took him seven Emmy Awards, and took him to places as seen from Vietnam to the American small town "On the Road with Charles Kuralt." He and Kuralt join forces in the famous documentary of the year 1964 "Christmas in Appalachia," the unemployed miners in Kentucky. When President Lyndon Johnson mobilized its war against poverty has released the program $ 70,000 in unsolicited donations from families excited, featured it. As a producer for "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" and other programs Birnbaum covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War and Watergate in depth. His warm, open and made the people feel comfortable with him, said his daughter Amy, also a producer of CBS News. "He could ask people something," and forge lasting friendships on interviews, she said. Birnbaum joined CBS as a lighting director in 1951 and worked in this decade was the production of short documentaries for "Sunday Morning". "This was an excellent insatiable curiosity, if it really said a perfect fit for a new station, Amy Birnbaum. In Brooklyn October 18, born in 1920, he began to learn photography while working in the studio," she said. He served as the U.S. Army Corps air combat cameraman during World War II and graduated film at New York University, said CBS News. Survivors are a daughter, Deborah Birnbaum-Kocay, and four grandchildren. His wife, Ronnie, died in 2005. A funeral is scheduled for Tuesday in Larchmont, New York, where he planned lived.