Stuart Novins

Novins covered Fidel Castro's ascent to power in Cuba and later reported on the Bay of Pigs invasion.

In 1960, the year he left his position on Face the Nation, he served as a panelist at the first televised presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, which took place in Chicago at the studios of CBS-owned WBBM-TV.

He retired from television in 1975 and joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico, where he taught broadcast journalism until 1981.

Novins died of respiratory failure on December 7, 1989, at age 75, in Middlebury, Vermont.

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