File photo - Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), Congresswoman Betty McCollum(Min) and Dr David Walsh, Director of the National Institute on Media & Family hold a news conference to discuss violent video games and the newly released JFK Reloaded on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, Tuesday November 23, 2004. Pictured: Joseph Lieberman. - Former US Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82. The cause was complications from a fall, according to a family statement obtained by CBS News, the BBC's US partner. The centrist represented the state of Connecticut in the Senate for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr Lieberman became the first Jewish politician to join a major party US presidential ticket in 2000 when Al Gore selected him as his running mate. Photo by Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USA