Biography

Henry Champ was born in 1939 in Hartney, Manitoba, Canada. He was married to Karen DeYoung. He died on September 23, 2012 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

During his career in television, he contributed stories to the CBC, CTV, and NBC network news. He was CBC Newsworld's Washington correspondent before he retired in 2008.

At the time of his death, he was chancellor of Brandon University, his alma mater in western Manitoba.

He was one of the last journalists to leave Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975.

He has 5 children.