Mudd also covered numerous political campaigns . He was paired with CBS journalist Robert Trout for the August 1964 Democratic National Convention anchor booth , temporarily displacing Walter Cronkite , in an unsuccessful attempt to match the popular NBC Chet Huntley – David Brinkley anchor team . Mudd covered the 1968 Presidential campaign of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and interviewed him at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles only minutes before Kennedy was murdered on June 5 , 1968
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