LONDON (AP) - Sir Charles Wheeler, who reported from Washington, Berlin and other capitals during a long and distinguished broadcasting career, died Friday. He was 85. Wheeler died at his London home of lung cancer, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. Wheeler covered the Hungarian uprising in 1956, the flight of the Dalai Lama from Tibet in 1959 and the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. He had continued working for BBC radio until recently, his devotion tempered by his despair at changes in the industry such as the 24-hour TV news channel that he described as the BBC's "worst idea yet." Wheeler was born in Germany, where his father worked for a shipping company, and he experienced life under Nazi rule. He recalled taking bread to Jewish neighbors who were in hiding. He was educated in Britain. He joined the BBC in...
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