Reynolds's knowledge and experience.Ī practicing Roman Catholic, Mr. But in later years, according to other ABC newsmen, Mr. Arledge concentrated on bringing in newer, younger people. Arledge said yesterday ''Frank Reynolds represented journalism at its best - professional, talented, experienced and aggressive.'' In the beginning of their relationship, when Mr. Reynolds characterized his career with some irony as ''Lazarus-like.'' The second time around, he shared anchor responsibilities with Peter Jennings and Max Robinson. After Roone Arledge, president of ABC News, returned him to the anchor position in 1978, Mr. Reynolds spent eight years covering major stories, including political conventions and space flights. Reynolds's commentaries for special criticism.Īfter being replaced by Harry Reasoner in 1968, Mr. Agnew, in excoriating the media, singled out Mr. The network itself became uneasy about him, she relates, when Vice President Spiro T. Reynolds's liberal views irritated many owners of ABC affiliate stations around the country. Smith.Īccording to Barbara Matusow's book ''The Evening Stars,'' Mr. A year later, however, he relented and moved to New York to share the anchor duties with Howard K. ''I felt they could find someone else to sit there and read the news,'' he said. In 1967, ABC offered him the anchor post on the ''Evening News.'' He declined. In 1965, he decided to take a 50 percent cut in pay to work as an ABC network correspondent in Washington. Reynolds turned off camera and remarked angrily: ''Let's try to nail this down.''įrank Reynolds was born in East Chicago, Ind., dropped out of Wabash College after a year and, after Army service in World War II, during which he won a Purple Heart, worked for CBS and ABC stations in Chicago. In the confusion over whether or not James Brady, the President's press secretary, had been killed, Mr. Reynolds let his guard down in one incident after the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981. Known as a solid, unemotional on-air reporter, Mr. Reynolds won the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 1979. He had been absent from his anchor slot on ABC's ''World News Tonight'' since April and, since then, the program dropped in the ratings to third place behind ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''CBS Evening News.''

Reynolds had been ill with multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer, for several months, but his death was attributed to acute viral hepatitis.

Frank Reynolds, the ABC News anchorman since 1978, died yesterday in Washington.

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