Richard Curt Hottelet, the former longtime CBS News United Nations correspondent who was the last surviving member of Ed Murrow's team, known as "Murrow's Boys," passed away on Wednesday at his home in Wilton, Connecticut at age 97.
Mr. Hottelet was the last to join Mr. Murrow's team when he presented himself to the future host of See It Now in London and was hired in January, 1944 and went on to broadcast the first eyewitness report of the Allied invasion on D-Day.
After the war, Dick was assigned to Moscow where Soviet dictator "Uncle Joe" Stalin dismantled his wartime alliance with the West. The government in Moscow soon withdrew broadcasting rights for newsman Hottelet and Mr. Murrow recalled him after the communist regime refused to restore those rights.
Mr. Hottelet returned to the US and reported on domestic news events before being transferred to the new CBS News bureau in Bonn, West Germany in 1951. He reported from Warsaw on the uprising in the Polish capital in 1956.
After anchoring several television morning news programs for CBS (1957-61) , Dick became the network's UN correspondent in 1960. He retired from CBS News in 1985.
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