Bernard Birnbaum Dies

CBS News producer Bernard Birnbaum, who helped shape the public's view of issues ranging from poverty to the Watergate scandal while working alongside Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt, has died, the network said.

Birnbaum died on Thanksgiving Day at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, N.Y., after having a heart attack while visiting relatives nearby, CBS News said in a statement Saturday. His death had been announced on the network news broadcast Friday. He was 89.

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Survivors include another daughter, Deborah Birnbaum-Kocay, and four grandchildren. His wife, Ronnie, died in 2005.

A funeral is scheduled Tuesday in Larchmont, N.Y., where he lived.

Rest In Peace, Bernard.