Photo AP/NBC Lew Wood, who marched with Martin Luther King, covered John F. Kennedy's assassination and was a news anchor for NBC's "Today" show during a distinguished broadcast career that began with the dawn of television, has died at age 84. Wood, who had been in declining health, died of kidney failure Wednesday at a hospice in Riverside County, his daughter Brigitte Wood told the Associated Press. He was perhaps best known as "Today's" third news anchor, succeeding Frank Blair in 1975. Although Blair had held the job for 22 years, Wood left after just a year, going into public relations. He stayed in that field until retiring in 2006. "He always joked that when he left the 'Today' show, it was due to illness and fatigue. They were sick and tired of him," his daughter said with a laugh Thursday. Read more http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/22/lew-wood-dies/2690177/
