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Journalist Tim Russert dies in Washington

"Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert, pictured in a file photo in Long Beach, California on September 26, 2006, died at the age 58 after collapsing from a heart attack at the NBC studio in Washington on June 13, 2008. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen/FILES)

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