 Drinkwater and fellow CBS News correspondent, Roger Mudd, were on scene in the "Embassy Ballroom" of the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 when United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, he died the following day at Good Samaritan Hospital.He covered such notable events as the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia "Patty" Hearst and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.Drinkwater received three Emmy Awards and an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award.