More network anchors have landed in Cuba covering the death of Fidel Castro.
NBC’s Lester Holt arrived earlier today to anchor Nightly News tonight. ABC’s David Muir and CBS’s Charlie Rose arrived over the weekend. Muir anchored World News Tonight Sunday. Rose anchored CBS This Morning today, and will again tomorrow, from Havana. He’ll also report for CBS Evening News tonight and tomorrow night.
“I got the word on Saturday afternoon that they needed me in Cuba by Sunday afternoon so I took a 5:40 flight from LaGuardia to Miami where I was joined by other CBS colleagues for a flight to Havana,” Rose told TVNewser of his travels. “It’s never a quick process but it was a reasonably smooth process getting through customs.”
Rose was last in Cuba in March when Diplo performed outside the recently-reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana.
Rose says he is joining “journalists from around the world” covering Castro’s death, and reporting on what it might mean for the future.
Since Castro’s death on Friday, TV networks have gone through the archives digging up decades-old Castro interviews. CBS has aired a 1959 interview with Edward R. Murrow during which Castro wore pajamas. And in the clip below, see part of Castro’s chaotic 1959 appearance on Face the Nation, his first on U.S. TV.