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NEW YORK (AP) A CBS News producer who worked with Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt and helped craft reports on subjects ranging from poverty to the Watergate scandal has died.

A network statement says Bernard Birnbaum died Thursday at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, N.Y., after having a heart attack while visiting relatives nearby. He was 89.

Birnbaum's CBS career won him seven Emmy Awards and took him to places ranging from Vietnam to the small-town America seen in "On the Road with Charles Kuralt." Birnbaum and Kuralt first joined forces on the acclaimed 1964 documentary "Christmas in Appalachia." Birnbaum also was a producer of "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite," launched in 1963.

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