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Charles Wheeler 'greatest reporter of his generation' dies
Charles Wheeler 'greatest reporter of his generation' dies
Last Modified: 04 Jul 2008
By:
Victoria Macdonald
The BBC's most respected and longest serving foreign correspondent, Charles Wheeler, dies at the age of 85.
From the Hungarian uprising of 1956, to the assassination of Martin Luther King; from Watergate to the Gulf war; he covered many of the events that shook the world, going back more than half a century.
Today the BBC paid tribute to a man described simply as the greatest reporter of his generation.
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