Lane Venardos, 67, a former CBS News vice president who won numerous awards during 30 years with the network, died Friday after suffering a heart attack in his home in Maui, Hawaii, said CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco.
During his 30-year career with the network, Venardos worked as executive producer of “CBS Evening News” and as a vice president for hard news. His work earned him 13 Emmy Awards for his role in the coverage of live news, special events and documentaries.
Venardos produced most of CBS News’ live coverage of the Persian Gulf War, as well as the coverage of political campaigns from 1986 through 1998.
Albert Brown, 105, a retired Army major who lived to be the oldest survivor of the 1942 Bataan Death March in the Philippines and was thought to be among the oldest surviving Americans to have fought in World War II, died Aug. 14 at a nursing home in Nashville, Ill.
He had a heart ailment, said his daughter, Peggy Doughty.
Brown, then an Army captain, was among about 76,000 Americans and Filipinos forced to march 66 miles on the Bataan peninsula starting April 10, 1942. As many as 11,000 died along the way. Brown documented it all, using a nub of a pencil to scrawl details into a tiny tablet he concealed in the lining of his canvas bag.
Denver Post wire services
