Jim Angle, Fort Worth native and Washington correspondent for Fox News, dies at 75
.JPG "Jim Angle in the Fox News D.C. Bureau on Jan. 18, 2009.")
Jim Angle, a Fox News correspondent from Fort Worth who is credited as a key player in establishing the network’s Washington D.C. bureau in 1996, died Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Virginia, Fox News reported Friday. He was 75.
Angle joined the network at its launch in 1996 as a senior White House correspondent, Fox News reported. He appeared nightly on “Special Report with Brit Hume” and was a regular substitute anchor for “Special Report.”
Angle, who was born in Fort Worth in 1946, covered former President Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection, the impeachment trial in 1999, and was a member of the press corps who went with the president on overseas trips, Fox News reported.
He covered social issues and the economy during former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations and was named chief national correspondent by Fox News in 2011, according to the network’s report. He retired in 2014.
A cause of death was not immediately released.