NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58

Saturday, June 14, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity.

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