Richard M. Cohen

Cohen was born in New York City on February 14, 1948, the son of Teresa (Beitzer) and Benjamin Cohen, a doctor.^[4][5] He had multiple sclerosis since he was 25 years old in 1973. He also had two bouts of colon cancer, one in 1999 and one in 2000.^[6]

Cohen, who was legally blind,^[7] wrote an autobiography titled, Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir.^[8]

Cohen married television personality Meredith Vieira (NBC News Special Correspondent and former co-anchor of NBC's Today Show) on June 14, 1986. They lived in Irvington, Westchester County, New York and had three children. Their middle child, Gabe Cohen, was a reporter at KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington^[9] and at KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington and is now a reporter for CNN based out of their Washington, D.C. bureau.^[10]

Jewish website 18 Doors noted that Vieira described Cohen as "a cultural Jew, but not an observant one," though they would celebrate holidays like Passover.^[11]

Cohen died from respiratory failure at a hospital in Sleepy Hollow, New York, on December 24, 2024, after battling pneumonia for two months.^[4]

• Cohen, Richard M. (2004). Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0060014094.
• Cohen, Richard M. (2008). Strong At The Broken Places. Harper. ISBN 978-0060763114.
• Cohen, Richard M. (2012). I Want to Kill the Dog. Blue Rider Press. ISBN 978-0399162039.

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