Bernard S. Redmont | Was CBS correspondent, 98

Bernard S. Redmont, 98, an acclaimed former foreign correspondent for CBS News and other news organizations who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, died Monday while in hospice care in Canton, Mass.

Born in New York City in 1918, Mr. Redmont enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1943, serving as a combat correspondent in the Marshall Islands and receiving the Purple Heart.

He was Argentina bureau chief for World Report, the forerunner to U.S. News & World Report, during Juan Peron's dictatorship in the late 1940s, and later was assigned to Paris.

Subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify in one of the trials of Commerce Department official William Remington, Mr. Redmont refused to name Remington as a communist. He subsequently lost his job at World Report and remained blacklisted for a decade.

Mr. Redmont stayed in Paris, joining the English desk of Agence France-Presse. He later reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Co. and Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp., as well as CBS News in Moscow.

Later, Mr. Redmont became a professor of journalism at Boston University and rose to dean of BU's College of Communication, working there through the 1980s.   - AP