ROBERT PIERPOINT, DEAD AT 86; REPORTER FROM WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD...........

Robert Pierpoint, was a young news reporter in 1948, when he was hired by Edward R. Murrow, for CBS News.  Pierpoint went on to a thirty ywo year career with CBS News reporting from world and domestic hotspots, including the Korean War, from 1950-1953, where he became one of the first American network newsmen to announce the truce and cessation of the conflict.  Into the 1950's and until 1964, he was CBS News White House Correspondent, covering Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy.  He was in Dallas, Texas on Friday November 22, 1963, the day President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated.   Robert Pierpoint's dedicated news reporting came into American homes via radio and television, making us better informed of the latest news.  He was also included in the ratings shattering, final episode of the tv series, M.A.S.H., in 1983, as it was an audiotape of his actual news report coming over the loudspeaker in the operating room, as Hawkeye, BJ, Hotlips, Klinger, Colonel Potter, and the others, learned the war was over.  May the assidious work exemplified by Bob Pierpoint continue to inspire and affect the quality of thorough and accurate news reporting.  Rest In Peace, Robert Pierpoint...........Fr.  Troy