Catherine Mackin
TV Journalist
Died when: 43 years 84 days (518 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Catherine Patricia "Cassie" Mackin (August 28, 1939 – November 20, 1982) was a pioneer woman journalist in United States television network broadcasting.In the early 1970s, she anchored a WRC-TV newscast and in 1972 became NBC's first female correspondent to serve as a floor reporter at the national political conventions.
In 1976, she became the first woman to regularly anchor an evening network newscast alone.
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