Ken Bode, political reporter who moderated ‘Washington Week,’ dies at 83

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/06/journalist-ken-bode-dead/

Also Ken Bode did segments for CNN and NBC in addition to his role on Washington Week on PBS.

Ken Bode, who drew on his experience in academia and Democratic Party politics during a varied career in journalism, reporting on the presidential campaign trail for NBC, making prizewinning documentaries for CNN and moderating the public affairs roundtable “Washington Week” for PBS, died June 2 at a care center in Charlotte. He was 83.

His daughters, Matilda and Josie Bode, confirmed the death but said the cause was not yet known.
Erudite but unpretentious, Dr. Bode was a savvy chronicler of the nation’s political scene. He combined the expertise of a scholar (he had a PhD in political science) and the passion of an activist (he had worked for liberal Sen. George S. McGovern of South Dakota) with an open, easygoing manner that friends traced to his upbringing in small-town Iowa, where his father ran a dairy and his mother kept the books.