Bernard Kalb, a veteran journalist of CBS, NBC and The New York Times who also had a brief but unsatisfying move into the government in the role of an official State Department spokesman, died on Sunday in the home he shared with his wife at North Bethesda, Md. He was 100.

The cause of loss of life was reported by daughter Claudia Kalb, who said his health had deteriorated following an injury on January. 2.

Through his long tenure on the air In his many years on television, Mr. Kalb's booming voice with his thick eyebrows, a hefty grin and an impressive command of detail were a hit with many viewers. He covered revolutions, wars and diplomatic breakthroughs which signalled the closing of Cold War.

He was a reporter in The Times from 1946 to 1962, then for CBS in the following 18 years (during which he worked with Marvin, his older brother Marvin who was on the diplomat front) as well as for the network's State Department correspondent from 1980 until 1985. After that, for two decades, he was as a State Department official in the Reagan administration's State Department -- a period that was a contentious one.

As an CBS reporter in 1972, Kalb was a correspondent for CBS in 1972. Kalb accompanied President Richard M. Nixon during the trip to China which proved to be an important step in improving relations between the two countries. He also took nearly every overseas trip along with Henry A. Kissinger, Cyrus R. Vance, Edmund S. Muskie, Alexander M. Haig Jr. and George P. Shultz during their respective terms in the post of secretary of state.

"You have a sense of being something of an eyewitness to the evolutions and eruptions of the decades since World War II," Mr. Kalb stated in November 1984, when the president Ronald Reagan announced his appointment as the assistant secretary of state in charge of public affairs. This was the first time journalist who was a part of for the State Department became its spokesman.

However, Mr. Kalb quit in October 1986 over what he termed an "reported disinformation program" -however, he was unable to affirming its existence implemented by the administration to defame and against the Libyan chief Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

The Washington Post reported that the program was designed to create false information in the press regarding rebels within the country against Colonel Qaddafi and American military plans to attack Libya. When asked regarding the resignation of Mr. Kalb's resignation the former president. Reagan said, "No one on our side has been lying to anyone."

"My resignation does not endow me with sudden freedom to act on what may be or not be secret and what can be classified or what cannot be classified," Mr. Kalb said. However, he said "You face a choice -- as an American, as a spokesman, as a journalist -- whether to allow oneself to be absorbed in the ranks of silence, whether to vanish into unopposed acquiescence or to enter a modest dissent."

Bernard Kalb was born in Manhattan on February. 4th, 1922. his parents, Max and Bella (Portnoy) Kalb were immigrantshis father was originally from Poland as well as his mom, who was born in the present-day Ukraine. The family relocated from Poland to Washington Heights when Bernard was aged a teenager. His father was primarily tailor in the garment district but in the evenings he worked as a tailor at dry cleaning located in Washington Heights that his mother was the manager during the day.

After having graduated from City College of New York in 1942 the young Mr. Kalb served for two years in the Army most of which was spent working for a newspaper that was published in an Quonset cabin within the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. His editor was Sergeant. Dashiell Hammett, who was the creator of the detective novel "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man."

In 1946 In 1946, Kalb joined The Times in 1946. Kalb joined The Times. He started writing on behalf of the station WQXR which was at the time owned by The Times company. He later wrote for the newspaper. He was a reporter for the metropolitan area and was a reporter for his coverage of the United Nations before being sent to Southeast Asia as a correspondent.

The first assignment he had overseas, which was in the latter half of 1955, was to join Adm. Richard E. Byrd in a trip to Antarctica. He once joked that some days , his toughest job was coming up with a variety of variations on"ice. "ice."

It was more difficult to cover his defense of the presidency of the president Sukarno in Indonesia. In 1958 the journalist. Kalb was arrested and briefly detained following his revelation that Soviet-built planes were supplied for Indonesia's military. Indonesian military. The arrest provoked protests from Western journalists and he was eventually released.

After the departure of The Times in 1962, Mr. Kalb joined CBS as reporter for Hong Kong. He was frequently sent to the area to report on events of the Vietnam War, and he was the on-scene reporter for CBS for a one-hour documentary in 1964 that warned about the possibility that this war not likely to be over in the near future. A few years later, he was awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for an op-ed on the Vietcong.

Relocating back to America United States in 1970, Mr. Kalb became Washington anchorman for the "CBS Morning News." In 1975, he joined with his brother in the diplomatic field and, five years later, they both joined NBC. Bernard Kalb covered the State Department until he was appointed its spokesperson in the year 1985.

Alongside his daughter Claudia in addition to his daughter Claudia. Kalb is survived by his brother, and the wife of his 64-year marriage, Phyllis (Bernstein) Kalb as well as three other daughters: Tanah, Marina and Sarinah Kalb with nine grandchildren as well as four stepgrandchildren.

From 1991 to 1992 In 1992, the late Mr. Kalb was the moderator of the weekly CNN program "Reliable Sources," which examined the objectivity of the media in its coverage and also interviewed broadcast and print journalists. He continued to lecture on the subject of journalism and foreign affairs throughout his 90s, and was even featured as a panelist occasionally for "The Kalb Report," which is a live telecast of talks presented by his father at the Washington National Press Club.

In a street in Romania in 2004 a child offered the name of Mr. Kalb a souvenir for $16: a pair of Soviet-era binoculars that were etched by red stars, hammers, and sickles as well as the crossed Kalashnikov rifles. A few days later Mr. Kalb was in a hotel room in Athens with his wife. In the far distance there was the Parthenon. With just a short time before they needed to travel to the airport The Kalbs gazed through their binoculars, observing from afar the symbol of democracy.

"The Cold War had come to the rescue, finally producing a scrap of redeeming value," Mr. Kalb wrote in an article for The Times. "R.I.P., Cold War. It wouldn't be possible without you."

Dennis Hevesi, a former author of obituaries at The Times, died in 2017. Alex Traub contributed reporting.

 
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