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by: Michael Rhodes - Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:23 UTC

Norman Rees, who died June 14, 2023, aged 84, spent three decades travelling the globe as an ITV news reporter. Home and abroad, he was usually in the right place at the right time – through luck or design – and enterprising in getting the story.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/18/norman-rees-obituary

In Washington in 1974 during the Watergate hearings, he elicited a response from the disgraced president Richard Nixon that he “screwed it up and paid the price”.

After standing in several times for Michael Brunson in the US, Rees became Washington correspondent (1977-81). One of his last assignments was the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. He reported the president broadly quoting Winston Churchill to say: “There’s no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result.”

Six years later – by now ITN’s Washington correspondent – Rees drove through the night to New York to report on the murder of John Lennon, arriving just before dawn to compile a report and get the reactions of grieving fans.

Surprise due today. Also the rent.

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