Lemuel (Lem) Tucker; Emmy-Winning CBS News Correspondent
Lemuel (Lem) Tucker, 52, the former CBS News correspondent who shared Emmy awards for reporting “Black Family” on the CBS Evening News in the 1981-82 season and in 1986-87 for coverage of the Iceland summit meeting. He retired on long-term disability from the network in November, 1988, after having served as medical and science correspondent for “CBS Evening News With Dan Rather” since 1984. In a Washington hospice of liver failure on March 2.
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