Raymond Heard is a Canadian-South African journalist, editor, media executive and political strategist. Heard is President of Toronto-based Heard-Cosgrove Communications, whose clients include some of Canada's largest companies. He is a contributor to Canada's National Post and the Huffington Post and appears on the CTV News Channel, CBC News Network, Global News and formerly appeared on the defunct Sun News Network as a political pundit.In Washington, he covered the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968, the Gemini and Apollo missions, the riots in Washington after Martin Luther King's assassination and was one of the first Western reporters to reach Lisbon on April 25, 1974, for the Carnation Revolution. In 1966, Heard gave Robert Kennedy ideas for his epic Ripp