Longtime CBS Account contributor Harold Dow died al of a abrupt Saturday morning, according to the network's website. He was 62.

The five-time Emmy Award champ was best accepted for his plan on 48 Hours, to which he contributed back the program's barrage in January 1988. He was aswell a contributor to the alarmingly acclaimed 1986 documentary, 48 Hours on Crack Street, which led to the conception of the account account magazine.

"CBS Account is acutely afflicted by this abrupt loss," CBS Account and Sports President Sean McManus said in a statement. "The CBS Account ancestors has absent one of its oldest and a lot of accomplished members, whose absence will be acquainted by abounding and whose on-air attendance and advertisement abilities affected about all of our broadcasts. We extend our centermost condolences to his wife Kathy and their accouchement Joelle, Danica and David."

Dow covered abounding of the a lot of important belief of his time, including 9/11, area he almost able one of the falling Twin Towers. He aswell covered the acknowledgment of prisoners of war from Vietnam, the movement of American troops into Bosnia, the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster, and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, who he interviewed alone in 1976. He aswell conducted the aboriginal arrangement TV account with O. J. Simpson afterwards the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

In accession to his 5 Emmys, Dow was accustomed with a Peabody Award for his 48 Hours address on runaways and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for a address on accessible housing. He was aswell afresh accustomed by the National Association of Black Journalists for his address about civilian rights activist Medgar Evers, which was featured in a CBS Account appropriate about the commencement of President Barack Obama.

Prior to alpha his plan for CBS Account in 1972, Dow was an ballast at Theta Cable TV in Santa Monica, Calif. He was aswell the aboriginal African American television anchorman in Omaha, Neb., area he served as co-anchor and talk-show host for KETV Omaha.