Former CNN Anchor Bernard Shaw Dead at 82

Bernard Shaw, among the anchors who put CNN on the map, has actually passed away from pneumonia … according to his household.

His household revealed his passing Thursday early morning, and stated the pneumonia was unassociated to COVID-19.

When CNN introduced in 1980, Shaw was the network’s very first chief anchor, and notoriously anchored governmental disputes, and particularly shined throughout the Gulf War in 1991.

Shaw reported live from Baghdad as the very first rocket strikes landed and introduced the war. He regularly needed to look for cover under desks and in air-raid shelter while reporting.

A Marine veteran, who served throughout the Vietnam War, Shaw stayed at CNN for more than twenty years … lastly retiring in 2001.

Prior to his time at CNN, Bernie — as his colleagues called him on the air — worked the Washington Bureau for CBS News, and was likewise at ABC News for a time.

Shaw was a happy Chicago local … he really began his broadcasting profession there as a press reporter and anchor, and ultimately ended up being the White Home reporter for Westinghouse.

He’s made it through by his spouse Linda Allston and their 2 kids. Bernie Shaw was 82.