Personal Life and Death
Hewitt was married three times:
- Mary Weaver with whom he had two sons: Jeffrey and Steven.
- Frankie Teague Hewitt - American theater producer and founder of the Ford's Theatre Society who was responsible for restoring and reopening the historic site as a working theater. They had a daughter: Lisa Gabrielle Hewitt Cassara, former coordinating producer of the syndicated television show "A Current Affair"; and he adopted her daughter Jilian Childers from a previous marriage.
- Marilyn Berger - American broadcast and newspaper journalist.
In March 2009, Hewitt was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer from which he died on August 19, 2009, at his home in Bridgehampton, New York.
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