Joseph Benti

Joseph Benti is an American former television news correspondent for CBS News who also served as anchor of the CBS Morning News from 1966 until 1970. Based in Los Angeles for most of his career, Benti later worked as a local anchor for KABC-TV and KNXT before retiring from journalism.

Benti, alongside CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite and fellow CBS correspondent Mike Wallace, anchored the network's overnight coverage of the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He also interviewed Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.