View Post CBS | NBC | People Lew Wood, Former CBS News and ‘Today’ Show Anchor, Dies By Chris Ariens on Aug. 23, 2013 - 12:02 PM Lew Wood, a former CBS News and NBC News reporter and anchor, has died. Wood, 84 died of kidney failure Thursday. Wood was a correspondent with CBS News when, in 1963, he covered a speech by Pres. John F. Kennedy in Ft. Worth, TX. ...