Journalism & Politics w/ Bill Plante & Olivier Knox
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Bill Plante was a remarkable reporter. He spent four tours as a CBS correspondent in Vietnam, he interviewed Martin Luther King Jr in 1965, and he served as CBS' White House Correspondent from 1976 until his retirement in 2016. On September 28, 2022, Bill Plante passed away. To honor him and his work, we are reairing our 2018 conversation w/ Bill and The Washington Post's Olivier Knox.
You can read Bill's CBS News obituary here and his Washington Post obituary by Emily Langer here.
You can watch the video of this conversation on our YouTube channel here.
This episode originally aired as episode #104 on August 22, 2018. This reair was edited by Ben Sawyer.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the Road to Now. Today we're at the Pilgrimage Music Festival in Franklin, Tennessee. |
| 0:13.0 | Ben and I are hanging out today and we're wearing our cricket shirts. |
| 0:17.0 | Because it's like 80 degrees and these shirts are are amazing for that and I'm about to rock |
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| 1:14.4 | Thank you so much, Cricket, for being wonderful supporters of The Road to Now. |
| 1:19.2 | That's right. |
| 1:23.2 | I'm Bob Crawford, and this is The Road to Now. |
| 1:26.7 | This week, we learned of the passing of Bill |
| 1:28.7 | Plant. For 52 years, Bill was a correspondent for CBS News. He interviewed Martin Luther King in |
| 1:34.9 | 1965 on the march from Selma to Montgomery. He was a war correspondent in Vietnam, and he was |
| 1:41.7 | CBS White House correspondent under four presidents. In August of 2018, |
| 1:47.1 | Ben and I had the pleasure of interviewing Bill and Olivier Knox, who is currently |
| 1:51.3 | national political correspondent for The Washington Post, an anchor of the Daily 202. |
| 1:57.6 | Our conversation was before a live audience at Glover Park Group in Washington, D.C. |
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