caption death_date death_place religion birth_place years_active children credits name birth_date spouse image article_title education birth_name occupation
reynolds in 1968 20 july 1983 washington , d.c. , u.s. roman catholicism east chicago , indiana , u.s. 1949 -- 1983 james reynolds reynolds john reynolds robert reynolds thomas reynolds dean '' abc world news tonight '' frank reynolds 29 november 1923 henrietta mary harpster abc press photo.jpg evening news 1968 - frank reynolds white house frank reynolds
 bishop noll institute wabash college frank james reynolds television journalist
frank reynolds

frank james reynolds -lrb- november 29 , 1923 -- july 20 , 1983 -rrb- was an american television journalist for abc and cbs news .
he was a new york-based anchor of the `` abc evening news '' from 1968 to 1970 and later was the washington d.c.-based co-anchor of `` world news tonight '' from 1978 until his death in 1983 .
during the iran hostage crisis , he began the 30-minute late-night program `` america held hostage '' , which later was renamed `` nightline '' .
