Last Of The Original Murrows Boys Dies Richard C. Hottelet, one of the pioneering group of wartime journalists hired by CBS radio newsman Edward R. Murrow, died today. He was 97. Hottelet was a foreign correspondent for the United Press in Berlin at the start of World War II — and even spent several months in a Nazi prison — before joining CBS in London in 1944. By Stephen Singer The Associated Press, December 17, 2014 2:10 PM EST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Richard C. Hottelet, the last of the original Murrows Boys, the pioneering group of wartime journalists hired by CBS radio newsman Edward R. Murrow, has died. He was 97. CBS News spokesman Kevin Tedesco said that Hottelet died early Wednesday morning at his home in Wilton. Hottelet was a foreign correspondent for the United Press in Berlin at the start of World War II -- and even spent several months in a Nazi prison -- before joining CBS in London in 1944.
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