Shaw was born in Chicago, Illinois, to housekeeper Camilla (Murphy) Shaw and railroad employee Edgar Shaw. From 1963 to 1968, he attended the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He served in the United States Marine Corps, including tours in Hawaii and at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, where he earned the rank of Corporal, E-4 as a “Message Center” specialist in 1962. He had a strong interest in the print media, clipping articles from newspapers and frequently traveling to Washington, D.C. on weekends. He was friends with Walter Cronkite and had a passion for baseball.
Bernard’s wife Linder whereabouts is unknown.
Shaw started his broadcasting career in 1964 as an anchor and reporter for WNUS in Chicago.
He went on to work as a reporter for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in Chicago before moving to Washington as the White House correspondent. From 1971 to 1977, he worked as a CBS News correspondent in the Washington Bureau. He joined ABC News in 1977 as a Latin American correspondent and bureau chief before becoming the Capitol Hill Senior Correspondent in 1982.
Shaw left ABC in 1980 to become co-anchor of CNN’s PrimeNews broadcast from Washington, D.C. Shaw’s coverage of the 1981 assassination attempt on US President Ronald Reagan (joined by former CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr, one of the network’s first on-air personalities) is credited with helping to establish CNN as a credible and reliable broadcast news source at a young age.
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