Thursday, February 14, 2013

Longtime NBC News correspondent Tom Aspell dies

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A veteran foreign correspondent for NBC News, Tom Aspell died Monday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

Tom Aspell, a veteran foreign correspondent for NBC News, died Monday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. He was 62 years old.

After beginning his career as a scriptwriter and cameraman with Visnews in 1970, Aspell joined NBC News in 1985 as a producer based in Cyprus.

He later became a foreign correspondent, and in this role covered events ranging from the fall of Saigon and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, to the Bosnian War, Beirut and Baghdad ? all the while displaying what NBC's Brian Williams described as ?an intense brand of cool under fire.?

"From Southeast Asia to the Middle East? to the Balkans ? to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and dozens of other 'hot spots,' Aspell made his mark on behalf of NBC News for 28 years," said NBC News President Steve Capus.

"To a person, all of his colleagues will tell you Tom was great company in the field who loved sharing stories at the end of a day spent documenting history."

A native of New Zealand, Aspell's last posting for NBC News was in Cyprus, where he loved spending time on his sailboat.

Aspell leaves behind a wife and two sons.

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/12/16941549-longtime-nbc-news-correspondent-tom-aspell-dies?lite

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