Background
Threlkeld, Richard Davis was born on November 30, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Son of Robert M. and Lou Jane (Davis) Threlkeld.
(For almost three years, as Moscow Correspondent for CBS N...)
For almost three years, as Moscow Correspondent for CBS News, Richard Threlkeld was a close observer of the scene inside Russia and many of its old Soviet allies. This broad canvas of a book is his engaging memoir of life in the remains of the former Soviet Empire during the waning years of Boris Yeltsin's regime. Through colorful vignettes the reader is taken from the crime-ridden Wild, Wild East of Siberia to the glitzy casino world of the new Russian rich in Moscow. Along the way we visit the mountain people of Azerbaijan, some of whom at age 120 are still alive and well, and native Arctic tribes in the far North of Russia, who still live much as America's Sioux or Cheyenne did two centuries ago. Equally fascinating are the characters who people the murky world of Kremlin politics. Dispatches goes behind the scenes to chronicle the decline of "Czar Boris" as well as the intrigues of Russia's new Rasputin, financier Boris Berezovsky and his ally, Yeltsin's ambitious and willful daughter Tatyana. But the real heroes and heroines of this story are the ordinary Russians, long-suffering as always: The Kuzbass coalminers who line up for cold cuts in lieu of a paycheck; the rural schoolteacher who every day stoically instructs her shivering and hungry students; and the fellow in Zaraisk who took his son with him into the voting booth to show the boy "how this democracy idea works." Threlkeld depicts a fascinating, sprawling land where the funny and the tragic are ever side by side. And as with everything in Russia, it is all larger than life.
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Threlkeld, Richard Davis was born on November 30, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Son of Robert M. and Lou Jane (Davis) Threlkeld.
Bachelor, Ripon College, 1959; Master of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University, 1961; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ripon College, 1989.
He earned a degree in history and political science from Ripon College. He then earned a master"s degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Threlkeld held positions at We Have A Signal-television in Louisville, Kentucky, and WMT-television in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He joined Columbia Broadcasting System News in 1966 and stayed there until December 1981, serving as co-anchor of the Columbia Broadcasting System Morning News (with Lesley Stahl) from 1977 to 1979.
He covered John Paul II"s visit to Mexico in 1979. Threlkeld went to American Broadcasting Company News in 1982 and was given the special assignment of filing a weekly Status Report segment for World News Tonight, which sought to give a deeper perspective to the week"s most important story.
In that role, he reported on the Falklands War, the invasion of Lebanon and many other domestic and international issues. After seven years at American Broadcasting Company, Threlkeld returned to Columbia Broadcasting System in 1989 and remained there until his retirement in 1999.
During his news career, Threlkeld also covered the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
In the United States he covered such stories as the Robert F. Kennedy assassination and the Patty Hearst kidnapping, as well as numerous political campaigns. Threlkeld"s last assignment before retirement was as Columbia Broadcasting System News Moscow correspondent. Threlkeld authored the book Dispatches from the Former Evil Empire in 2001.
Threlkeld was killed in an automobile accident on January 13, 2012, in Amagansett, New New York
His 2008 Mini convertible collided with a propane truck. He was 74.
(For almost three years, as Moscow Correspondent for CBS N...)
Member American Federation television and Radio Artists, Sigma Delta Chi M C.
Married Sharon A. Adams, June 11, 1960 (divorced 1983). Children: Susan Anne, Julia Lynn. Married Betsy Aaron, May 15, 1983.