 He covered the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas for the "Detroit Free Press" and subsequently covered the Civil Rights Movement as a correspondent for "The New York Times", where he also served as Saigon bureau chief in 1968 during the Vietnam War.After serving as national editor at "The Times" from 1969 to 1972, he was hired by John S. Knight to head "The Inquirer".He retired in 1990 and returned to the "Times" as managing editor from 1994 to 1998.