Bill Plante Age, Family, Net worth, Career

Early Life 

Bill Plante was 84 years old. Plante was born on January 14, 1938, in Chicago. His mother, Jane (Madden), was a school administrator, while his father, Regis, worked as a field engineer for a heating company. Plante graduated in 1955 from Loyola Academy in his hometown.

Around this time, he began his career in broadcasting as an employee of a classical music radio station in Evanston, Illinois.

Bill Plante Career, What was his Profession?

Plante began working for CBS News in June 1964 as a reporter and assignment editor following the completion of his studies at Columbia. Later that year, on his first of four reporting trips as a journalist, he was dispatched to South Vietnam to cover the Vietnam War. He covered the fall of Saigon and Phnom Penh during his final journey in 1975, which helped his CBS News team win the Overseas Press Club award for “Best Radio Spot News Reporting from Abroad.”

When state troopers attacked protestors on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on what has come to be known as “Bloody Sunday” in March 1965, Plante was in Selma, Alabama.

Later that month, he returned to cover the Selma to Montgomery marches and spoke with Martin Luther King Jr.

Plante’s last position at CBS News was Senior White House Correspondent, where she covered both the CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning. As a national journalist for CBS, he covered the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. He covered the Vietnam War as a news correspondent in South Vietnam for four tours, the first of which began in 1964 and ended in 1975 with the Fall of Saigon. From 1988 through 1995, he served as the CBS Sunday Night News host. In November 2016, he left the job.

Which school and college did he go to?

At Loyola University Chicago, Plante majored in business and humanities and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1959. He left Chicago-Kent College of Law after his acquaintance helped him land a position as WISN assistant TV news director. Before receiving a journalistic fellowship from CBS to study political science at Columbia University, he worked at the station for four years.

Bill Plante Net Worth, How much does he earn?

Bill Plante’s estimated net worth of $4 Million. His main source of income is his career as a journalist.

Bill Plante Wife, What is his relationship?

Barbara Barnes Orteig was Plante’s first wife. In addition to the four kids from her first marriage that Plante adopted, they had two children together, one of whom is syndicated radio talk show presenter Chris Plante.

After they eventually got divorced, he wed Robin Smith in 1987. Before his passing, they were wed for 34 years. Patrick, one of his kids, passed away before him in 2014.