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Cronkite Producer Sandy Socolow Dies At 86

CBS News | by TVNewsCheck

Sanford “Sandy” Socolow, who as Walter Cronkite’s right-hand played a key role in the anchorman’s coverage of the biggest news of the 1960s and ’70s, including the space launches, Vietnam War and Watergate, died Saturday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York from complications from a long illness. He was 86.