Background
Dow was born in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Dow was born in Hackensack, New Jersey.
He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Dow had been a correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System television investigative news series 48 Hours since 1990, after having served as a contributor to the broadcast since its premiere on January 1988. He had been a contributing correspondent for 48 Hours on Crack Street, the critically acclaimed 1986 documentary that led to the single-topic weekly news magazine. Dow"s reports have garnered him numerous awards.
He was also recently recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists for his report about Medgar Evers, which was featured in the Columbia Broadcasting System News special "Change and Challenge: The Inauguration of Barack Obama."
Dow covered many stories, including 9/11, during which he barely escaped one of the falling Twin Towers.
The return of Prisoner Of War"s from Vietnam. And the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, with whom he had an exclusive interview in December 1976.
Prior to his work with 48 Hours, Dow was a correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System News magazine Street Stories (1992-1993), and had reported for the Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News and Columbia Broadcasting System News Sunday Morning since the early 1970s. Before joining Columbia Broadcasting System News, Dow had been an anchor and reporter at Theta Cable television in Santa Monica, California.
He was also a freelance reporter for KCOP-television in Los Angeles, a news anchor for WPAT Radio in Paterson, New Jersey, and a reporter, co-anchor, and talk-show host for KETV-television in Omaha, Nebraska.
Dow reported on the return of POWs from Vietnam and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, with whom he had an exclusive interview in December 1976. A resident of Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Dow died from complications of asthma on August 21, 2010, behind the wheel of his car.
He was honored with a George Foster Peabody Award for his 48 Hours report on runaways and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for a report on public housing. He received five Emmy Awards, including one for a story on the American troops" movement into Bosnia (1996) and one for "distinguished reporting" for his coverage of the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster (1989). He won an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award, and an Operation Push Excellence in Journalism Award for a 48 Hours profile of Patti LaBelle.
Dow was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.
