Born Billy Don Moyers in Hugo, Oklahoma, on June 5, 1934, the son of a dirt farmer and truck driver, Moyers dropped the "y" from his first name when he took his first journalism job as a cub reporter at 16 in Marshall, Texas.

Bill Moyers, the longtime, highly respected broadcast journalist and former White House press secretary, has died. Moyers, 91, a former resident of New Jersey, died Thursday. His son William Cope Moyers told The Washington Post he died in New York from complications of prostate cancer.

He was a renowned television correspondent and commentator with long ties with Lyndon B. Johnson, including as his press secretary.