Bernard Shaw, CNN's First Chief Anchor, Dies At 82

CNN political anchorman Bernard Shaw publicizes his upcoming retirement from the community on November 10, 2000 in Atlanta, Ga.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for twenty years and a pioneering Black broadcast greatest remembered for calmly reporting the start of the Gulf Warfare in 1991 as missiles flew round him in Baghdad, had died. He was 82.

He died of pneumonia on Wednesday at a hospital in Washington, in line with Tom Johnson, CNN's former chief govt.

Shaw was at CNN for 20 years and was recognized for remaining cool beneath strain. That was a trademark of his protection Baghdad protection when the U.S. led its invasion of Iraq in 1991 to liberate Kuwait, with CNN airing beautiful footage of airstrikes and anti-aircraft fireplace within the capital metropolis.