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After the demotion, Reynolds returned to the field as a correspondent for the network. President Reagan during an Interview with Sam Donaldson Regarding Frank Reynolds on July ... Reagan Library 11,745 views. According to Sheila Tate, Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, the first lady arranged for the Arlington burial after learning from Mrs. Reynolds that Mr. Reynolds had expressed a wish to be buried there.TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Frank Reynolds, the ABC News anchorman since 1978, died yesterday in Washington. ''Frank Reynolds was born in East Chicago, Ind., dropped out of Wabash College after a year and, after Army service in World War II, during which he won a Purple Heart, worked for CBS and ABC stations in Chicago. He declined. The network itself became uneasy about him, she relates, when Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, in excoriating the media, singled out Mr. Reynolds's commentaries for special criticism.After being replaced by Harry Reasoner in 1968, Mr. Reynolds spent eight years covering major stories, including political conventions and space flights. Reynolds is survived by his wife, Henrietta; five sons, James, John, Robert, Thomas and Dean, a Washington correspondent for Cable News Network; his mother, Helen Reynolds of Hammond, Ind., and three sisters.The funeral will be held Saturday at 11 A.M. in St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. Frank Reynolds Remembered - ABC News Nightline - July 20, …
Frank Reynolds (November 29, 1923�July 20, 1983), was a TV journalist for ABC. The second time around, he shared anchor responsibilities with Peter Jennings and Max Robinson. He served in the United States Army but is best remembered as anchor of the ABC Evening News (now World News Tonight) from 1968 to 1970. He was 59 years old.
Known as a solid, unemotional on-air reporter, Mr. Reynolds let his guard down in one incident after the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981. By 1968, he became co-anchor of the ABC evening newscast with Howard K. Smith, who remained as co-anchor after Harry Reasoner was hired from CBS to replace Reynolds in December 1970. Frank Reynolds, the ABC News anchorman since 1978, died yesterday in Washington. He had been absent from his anchor slot on ABC's ''World News Tonight'' since April and, since then, the program dropped in the ratings to third place behind ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''CBS Evening News.''Mr. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. After Roone Arledge, president of ABC News, returned him to the anchor position in 1978, Mr. Reynolds characterized his career with some irony as ''Lazarus-like.'' In the beginning of their relationship, when Mr. Arledge first took over ABC news, Mr. Arledge concentrated on bringing in newer, younger people. After the war, Reynolds began his broadcast career in Indiana with By 1968, he became co-anchor of the ABC evening newscast with One famous moment in Reynolds' career occurred on March 30, 1981, during live news coverage of the Later, Brady, a close friend of Reynolds, was erroneously reported by all three networks as having died from the head wound he suffered in the incident.One of Reynolds' five sons is CBS News correspondent Reynolds is also famous for his optimistic prediction during a live broadcast of the Reynolds' last broadcast was April 20, 1983, and, despite promises of his return by substitute anchormen, he never did, dying from Reynolds, an Army veteran wounded in combat, is interred in Reagan assassination attempt coverage episode, 1981Reagan assassination attempt coverage episode, 1981It is often erroneously cited that Reynolds was told that Reagan had died. Mr. Reynolds will be buried in Arlington Cemetery with full military honors. Mr. Reynolds, who was 59 years old, … 'Journalism at Its Best'Mr. Frank Reynolds, the ABC News anchorman, died in Washington early today, a spokesman for the network said.
7:04. Mr. Reynolds had been ill with multiple myeloma, a form … Mr. Reynolds had been ill with multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer, for several months, but his death was attributed to acute viral hepatitis. President and Mrs. Reagan joined more than a thousand dignitaries, journalists and friends of Frank Reynolds today at funeral services for the ABC News anchor. In 1965, he decided to take a 50 percent cut in pay to work as an ABC network correspondent in Washington.In 1967, ABC offered him the anchor post on the ''Evening News.'' But in later years, according to other ABC newsmen, Mr. Arledge came to appreciate Mr. Reynolds's knowledge and experience.A practicing Roman Catholic, Mr. Reynolds frowned on rough language and off-color jokes, drank little and spent his free time with his family in suburban Bethesda, Md. ''I felt they could find someone else to sit there and read the news,'' he said. He came out of the Chicago school of journalism, Mr. Vanocur said, ''which means you have paid your dues in one of the toughest journalistic towns in the world and you don't have to take anything from anybody.''Mr.