Colleagues of Mark Haines, who died late Tuesday at the age of 65, anchored a sixty minute tribute to their friend on Wednesday.
UPDATE FRIDAY May 27: CNBC has restored the video content of the terrific hour-long look at the career and life of Mark Haines. The video is posted below and is viewable once again. Enjoy!
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In a moving and sometimes humorous hour, Carl Quintanilla, David Faber and Joe Kernan anchored a retrospective of Haines' career in news. Video clips include his early days as a local television reporter at ABC Channel 7 in New York City as well as a large number of CNBC moments.
From the very start of Haines' tenure at CNBC which began in 1989, the tribute demonstrates how he became the respected and curmudgeonly figure that influenced people. It was not only his young colleagues who learned how to conduct an interview effectively, that took note of what he said and how he said it.
Read about the changes to Squawk Box and its companion show, Squawk on the Street, in the post Mark Haines era.
No less an important figure than former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, admitted he followed what Mark Haines had to say about the size of his briefcase. The host of Squawk Box used to try and predict what Greenspan would recommend at the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meetings by the size of what he was carrying. Was it slim or bulging? Haines believed that a lot could be determined if Greenspan was packing a whole lot of written material.
At an event during which Greenspan was being given an award, he mentioned Haines' guessing game and admitted that even he wondered how the "Briefcase Indicator" worked.
Much has been made of the way Haines managed the breaking and developing news of the attack on the World Trade Center Towers. In the video retrospective, his colleagues reveal that until recently, he hadn't seen video of his performance that day. When he finally sat down to do that, he ended with tears and just walked away silently.
As of this writing, no funeral arrangements have been publicly announced. Read the original story of the CNBC announcement about the death of Mark Haines. CNBC's Mark Haines dead, colleagues learn news on the air.
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