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Mourning Tim Russert

A family and nation mourn Tim Russert at his wake, funeral and memorial service in Washington, D.C. Russert, 58, was NBC's Washington bureau chief and host of the longstanding Sunday program 'Meet the Press,' where he pressed top politicians and bureaucrats on the contentious issues of the day. Russert died of a heart attack on Friday, June 13, 2008.

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1,500 Admirers Gather to Get The Tim Russert Story Right
Article | From the three network anchors to a former governor to the Buffalo nun who taught him in seventh grade, Tim Russert's extended family bid farewell yesterday to "an unmade bed of a man, with an armful of newspapers and a cellphone to his ear," as Tom Brokaw described his colleague.
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