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Award-winning journalist HAL WALKER, the first African-American correspondent for CBS News, died of prostate cancer Nov. 25 at his home in Reston, Va. He was 70.

One of the first black journalists on national television news in the 1960s, Walker was at CBS News for 12 years. He covered foreign and domestic stories from Washington, including the inaugurations of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

Previously, at then-WTOP(TV), the CBS Washington affiliate, Walker covered Capitol Hill and race relations, earning a local Emmy and the Capitol Press Cl

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