Derek Williams, longtime CBS News cameraman, remembered as "the mate you would want in any war zone" - CBS News

Longtime CBS News cameraman Derek Williams, who spent four decades covering some of Asia's most pivotal events, from the Vietnam War to the Tiananmen Square massacre, has died. He was 79.Williams died Wednesday, according to his family. He had been living with Parkinson's disease and was recently diagnosed with cancer. Susan Zirinsky, former CBS News president and president of See It Now Studios, recalled that Williams was "everything — the mate you would want in any war zone." She described him as "intuitive," "a great cameraman," and said "he saw things coming before they came.""Most of all Derek was a great human — a group of us were privileged to be on a frequent email of his world today — each email was like a visual portrait that he might have shot if covering a story," Zirinsky said. "My last email from him was July 2nd.