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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Frazier Moore

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91

Obit Bill Moyers - (AP2011)

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.

Moyer died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. He did not cite Moyers' cause of death.

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