Drinkwater joined CBS News in 1963 , after working as a reporter at television station KTLA in Los Angeles . At CBS , his main assignment was as a regional correspondent , " roaming the West from the Rocky Mountains to Alaska . " Drinkwater and fellow CBS News correspondent , Roger Mudd , were on scene in the '' Embassy Ballroom '' of the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in the early morning hours of June 5 , 1968 when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated . He covered such notable events as the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia " Patty " Hearst and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Terry Drinkwater