Career
First known to the American public as a correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System News, Hart eventually became anchor of its morning broadcast from 1969 until 1973. Hart moved to National Broadcasting Company in 1975 where, in addition to general correspondent duties, he served as a substitute for John Chancellor as anchor of National Broadcasting Company Nightly News and anchor of National Broadcasting Company Nightly News weekend editions during much of the 1970s. He stayed with that network until 1988 when the Christian Science Monitor hired him as anchor of its cable television newscast, World Monitor, which aired on The Discovery Channel 1988-1991.
He retired in 1991.
Among Hart"s awards were Peabody, Overseas Press Club, Weintal, Edward R. Murrow, Christopher, American Council on Exercise, Emmy. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California in 1953. From 1954-1960 he served in the United States. Army.
From 1956-1960 he worked at Washburn Crosby Company in Minneapolis.
WSJB-television in Elkhardt, Indiana. And KPOL radio in Los Los Angeles
While there he received his Master of Arts degree in journalism from University of California, Los Angeles (1959). From 1960-1964 he was a writer/reporter for KNXT in Los Los Angeles
In 1964 he became bureau manager and correspondent of the Columbia Broadcasting System owned television station news bureau in Washington, District of Columbia During 1965-1966 he covered the South for Columbia Broadcasting System News, followed by a six month assignment in Vietnam.
During 1968 he covered the presidential campaigns of Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Hart joined National Broadcasting Company News as a political correspondent in February 1975, serving in the Washington District of Columbia bureau.
In January 1977 be became the national affairs correspondent.
In November 1979 he was named chief European correspondent, based in London.