Bio
 Roger Mudd was the documentary host and correspondent for The History Channel from 1995 until he retired in 2004. Between 1961 to 1992, he was a Washington correspondent for CBS News, NBC News and the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on PBS. He won the George Foster Peabody award for "The Selling of the Pentagon" in 1970 and for "Teddy" in 1979 and the Barone Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting in 1990.
Between 1992 and 1996, he was a visiting professor of politics and the press at Princeton University and at Washington & Lee University.
Mudd graduated from Washington & Lee University in 1950 and from the University of North Carolina in 1953 with a degree in history.
He enlisted in the US Army in 1945 and served with the 2nd Armored Division.
Mudd is on the board of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges and the National Portrait Gallery, the advisory boards of the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Jepson School of Leadership at the University of Richmond.
Mudd, born in Washington, D.C. in 1928, is married to the former E. J. Spears of Richmond, Virginia. They have four children, eleven grandchildren and have lived in McLean, Virginia for 35 years.
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