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BiographyEarly lifeBorn on August 22, 1945 in Kokomo, Indiana, Kroft attended Syracuse University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1967.[1] After his graduation, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in the Vietnam War.[2] He was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division in Cu Chi, where he was a reporter for the Armed Forces Network; he covered the Division's participation in the invasion of Cambodia. Kroft won several Army journalism awards for his work and a Bronze Star Medal for Meritorius Achievement.[citation needed] When the Division was redeployed, he was reassigned to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes as a correspondent and photographer.[2]
CBS careerKroft joined CBS News in 1980 as a reporter in their Northeast bureau, based out of New York City. The next year, he was named a correspondent and the network soon moved him to its Southwest Bureau in Dallas , where he stayed until 1983. That year, Kroft returned to Florida after CBS reassigned him to its Miami bureau. He was soon making frequent visits to the Caribbean and Latin America, covering the civil war in El Salvador and the U.S. invasion of Grenada. In 1984, Kroft landed a job as a foreign correspondent at CBS's London bureau, where he travaled extensively to cover stories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the middle east. Many of his assignments involved international terrorism and sectarian violence, including the hijackings of TWA Flight 847 and Achille Lauro, the Rome and Vienna airport attacks of the Abu Nidal Organization, the Lebanese Civil War, and the violence in Northern Ireland. His report for the CBS Evening News on the assassination of Indira Ghandi won him an Emmy. In 1986, CBS News brought Kroft back to the United States to become a principal correspondent on a new magazine show called West 57th and Stayed in that position until the program was cancelled in the spring of 1989. That same September, Kroft and Meredith Viera, a West 57th collegue, joined 60 Minutes. [1] In 1990, he became the first American journalist to be given extensive access to the contaminated grounds of the Chernobyl nuclear facility, and his story won an Emmy.[3] After allegations of infidelity surfaced in the 1992 presidential election, then-Governor Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, gave an exclusive interview to Kroft. The interview was one of the defining moments in the election.[1]
With his success, Kroft also branched out into other venues. He appeared as himself on an episode of Murphy Brown.[5] He played himself again in Woody Allen's 2000 movie, Small Time Crooks, in which he interviewed Allen's character for a segment on 60 Minutes.[6] PersonalKroft lives in New York with his wife, Jennet Conant, who is a journalist and author. They have one son, John Conant Kroft.[1] Awards
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