Harold Dow

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title = Correspondent, "48 Hours Mystery"
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URL = http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/02/26/48hours/bios/main502205.shtml

Harold Dow (Born September 28, 1947, in Hackensack, New Jersey [ [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/02/26/48hours/bios/main502205.shtml Harold Dow profile] , "48 Hours (TV series)". Accessed October 11, 2007. Dow was born in Hackensack, N.J. He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha."] ) is an American television news correspondent, journalist, and investigative reporter who works for CBS News.

Journalist credentials

Dow has been a correspondent for the CBS TV investigative news series "48 Hours" since 1990, after serving as a contributor to the broadcast since its premiere on January 1988. He had been a contributing correspondent for "48 Hours on Crack Street", the critically acclaimed 1986 documentary that led to the single-topic weekly news magazine. Dow conducted the first network interview for "48 Hours" with O. J. Simpson following the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Dow graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Prior to his work with 48 Hours, Dow was a correspondent for the CBS News magazine "Street Stories" (1992-93) and has also reported for the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and "CBS News Sunday Morning."

Other Accomplishments

Before joining CBS News, Dow had been an anchor and reporter at Theta Cable TV in Santa Monica, California. He was also a freelance reporter for KCOP-TV Los Angeles, a news anchor for WPAT Radio in Paterson, N.J., and a reporter, co-anchor and talk-show host for KETV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dow joined CBS News in 1972, first as a broadcast associate, then as a correspondent with their Los Angeles Bureau while with KCOP-TV. Dow reported on the return of POWs from Vietnam and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, with whom he had an exclusive interview in December 1976.

References

External links

* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/02/26/48hours/bios/main502205.shtml Harold Dow's Bio Sketch at CBS News]

* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/18/48hours/main2825050.shtml Beyond The Boardwalk:Dow Reports on 4 grisly killings in Atlantic City]

* [http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4104695n?source=search_video 48 Hours correspondent Harold Dow reports: Point Break, Pt. 1: A man's obsession may have led to his own death, originally aired 5/17/2008.]

* [http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4104703n?source=search_video 48 Hours correspondent Harold Dow reports: Point Break, Pt. 2: A man's obsession may have led to his own death, originally aired 5/17/2008.]