Lisa Howard

Howard was a film actress and soap opera star before breaking into journalism In 1960 she scored the first major interview with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the United Nations She was hired by ABC news as a reporter and subsequently became the anchor for ABCs noontime news broadcast The NewsHour with Lisa Howard Her two specials on Cuba in 1963 and 1964 were the most substantive coverage of Castros revolution in the early 1960s She died in 1965