The funeral arrangements for Tim Russert, the famed political journalist and longtime host of NBC's Meet The Press, has been scheduled for Wednesday.
The funeral and memorial service will take place on Wednesday, June 18 at 4pm in Washington's Kennedy Center. The funeral services will be closed to the public, but will be televised by MSNBC and made available for broadcast by other media outlets.
A wake for Russert will be held Tuesday at St. Albans School in Washington, while private vigils have been held in Washington and in western New York, where Russert grew up.
Tim Russert, the longtime host of NBC's Meet the Press, passed away Friday after collapsing at the NBC News Bureau in Washington. The cause of death was coronary embolism, which caused a heart attack.
According to the autopsy, Russert's physician Dr. Michael Newman said that Russert "was known to have asymptomatic coronary artery disease [atherosclerosis], which resulted in hardening of his coronary arteries."
NBC announced that the network will not seek a new host for Meet The Press until after the funeral on Wednesday.
According to Russert's obituary, he was born born on May 7, 1950 in Buffalo, New York and died on Friday, June 13th at the age of 58. Russert had been host of Meet the Press since 1991 and was also the chief of NBC's Washington News Bureau.
Russert is survived by his wife Maureen Orth, a journalist for Vanity Fair, and son, Luke, who recently graduated from Boston College.
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