Richard III of England the Battle of Bosworth Field in Leicestershire. Richard was slain in the conflict, making him the last English king to die in battle. Henry Tudor then ascended the throne as Henry VII. After the battle, Richard's corpse was taken to Leicester and buried without pomp. His original tomb monument is believed to have been removed during the English Reformation, and his remains were lost for more than five centuries, believed to have been thrown into the River Soar. In 2012, an archaeological excavation was commissioned by the Richard III Society on a city council car park on the site once
Richard S. Salant claiming a "chilling effect" on broadcast journalism that would result from compliance. Among Salant's other concerns during his tenure with CBS News were, a) his concern that television news was becoming primarily an entertainment vehicle, b) the pressure that he felt from the White House via CBS president, William S. Paley, to fire Daniel Schorr for his reporting that reflected poorly on the administration of Richard Nixon. In his book, "Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S Salant", he cited Stanton's assessment upon his retirement that CBS had become so large