Bill Plante in 1984. ... “What I saw there opened my eyes,” he told Gayle King of “CBS This Morning” in 2020 after the death of Representative John Lewis, the civil rights leader.

1965: Bill Plante interviews MLK on march to Montgomery 01:13. Plante was named a CBS News correspondent in 1966 and assigned to the Chicago bureau, where he remained for 10 years, covering such ...

Bill Plante, who became a fixture of American television sets as a globe-trotting CBS News correspondent, covering the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, four U.S. presidents and more than ...