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Richard Roth
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He is not to be confused with Richard Roth of Columbia Broadcasting System News. He was the host of Diplomatic License (until its cancellation in January 2006), a weekly program that was devoted to United Nations affairs Roth is a Cable News Network "original" — one of the first employees when the network launched in 1980.
He has covered a wide range of stories over the last 25 years, from the 1989 Beijing student uprising in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War.
Before Cable News Network, he was an anchor and reporter for Associated Press Radio and a producer for WPIX-television in New New York Roth graduated from New York University with a degree in journalism.
Roth lived in Whitestone, Queens, in the early 1970s. He is a devotee of Alfred Hitchcock"s North by Northwest.
He is alleged to have revisited the various locations shown in the film, e.g., Mount Rushmore and Cary Grant"s famous cornfield sequence.
Richard Roth appeared in Robert Wiener’s book Live from Baghdad. He appeared as a character in the 2002 Home Box Office film of the same name where he was portrayed by actor Hamish Linklater. Roth was stationed in Amman before joining Wiener and left the crew shortly before the Gulf War began, but within this time became part of an important coverage where the Cable News Network team stepped into a messy United States diplomatic mission in Baghdad and he interviewed a stranded United States expatriate worker Robert Vinton.
Roth’s interview of Vinton saw widespread coverage in the United States and caused subsequent disappearance of Bob Vinton by the Iraqi authorities, though he was finally released and allowed to leave Iraq for home.
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