TV Newsman Roger Mudd, 93

“[A] Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No. 1 network anchorman — not that he wanted that, anyway” — he was most famous for his reporting on the scene at Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, asking Ted Kennedy a pointed question whose abysmal answer sank the latter’s presidential prospects, and a CBS Reports special that sank the public’s and Congress’s trust in the Pent