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“Can the World Be Saved?” segments, 430–31, 432, 438
and Carter presidency, 527, 534
censorship issues and, 495–96
challenges on, 254
Chicago antiwar protests coverage, 400–401, 402–4
civil rights coverage, 294–95, 296, 297, 298, 301, 328–32
comparison to The Waltons TV show, 509
Cronkite and Mudd and, 294–95, 296
Cronkite and Schorr and, 505–6
Cronkite and Senate run suggestion, 390
Cronkite before Senate Subcommittee, 465, 466
the Cronkite Moment, 379–80, 383
Cronkite’s awards and honors, 436, 438, 454, 455, 458, 503, 532, 543
Cronkite’s bigfooting routine, 326, 372, 425
Cronkite’s demotion from 1964 Democratic Convention, 317–19
Cronkite’s “February problem,” 304
Cronkite’s last day anchoring the, 547
Cronkite’s last political convention broadcast, 542–43
Cronkite’s retirement plans, 533, 535, 537, 539, 543
Cronkite’s salary and contract, 306, 454, 480, 523, 524
Cronkite’s star status, 359–60
Cronkite’s successor, 532–33
Cronkite’s “That’s the news” sign-off, 250
Cronkite’s “That’s the way it is” sign-off, 120, 262–63
Cronkite’s tours of Vietnam, 342–47, 368–76, 492–93
Cronkite’s viewer and fan mail, 307, 319, 497
Cronkite’s work ethic, 510–11
Cuban Missile Crisis coverage on, 256
Daley interview, 403–5, 406
D-day special, 298–99
deficiencies in, 291
Ellsberg interview, 461–65, 473
and environmental issues, 430–39
Evening News team, 324–25
fifteen-minute format of, 250, 256
first broadcast of, 250–51
first color broadcast, 323
first-place ratings, 364, 480, 509, 533, 535
and Ford’s presidency, 511, 513–14
Gay Raiders disruption of, 494–95
and gay rights issues, 495–96
half-hour news format of, 256–63
Hewitt and, 252–53
In Celebration of US, 514
and Iranian hostage crisis, 534–35, 539
“Iron Pants” nickname for Cronkite, 277, 310, 313, 423, 515
Kennedy and first half-hour broadcast, 259–63
and Robert Kennedy assassination, 397
Kennedy assassination coverage, 278–79, 280–81
Kent State University massacre coverage, 434–35
and King’s assassination, 395–96
and LBJ’s death, 489–91
and LBJ’s resignation, 391–95
March on Washington coverage, 258–59
Moon race coverage, 332–33, 336, 337–38, 407, 408–26
multipart news format, 473–74
and Murrow’s death, 335–36
newsroom set design, 323–24, 666
Nielsen ratings and, 289–90, 291, 292, 293, 315, 367, 382, 465
1964 Election Night coverage, 325–26
1964 political conventions, 304–6, 308–22
1967 AFTRA strike, 357–59
1968 Election Night coverage, 409
1968 political conventions, 399–401, 402–4
1972 political conventions, 471–72
1974 Election Night coverage, 503, 504
1976 Election Night coverage, 520
1976 political conventions, 515–16, 517–19
1980 political conventions, 540–43
1980 presidential election campaign, 535–36, 537–39
and Nixon’s resignation, 502–3, 505–8
and Nixon’s trip to China, 466, 467–69
and Nixon versus CBS, 440–48, 451, 454–55, 457–58, 466
“On the Road” features, 364
Peabody Award, 258
and Pentagon Papers, 458–60, 461–62, 463
political correctness of, 331–32
Project Gemini coverage, 332–34, 336, 338
ratings after “Report from Vietnam,” 382
ratings and AFTRA strike, 358–59
ratings and JFK assassination coverage, 280
ratings competition between NBC News and, 205–6, 217, 251–52, 256, 265, 289, 295, 321, 364, 533
ratings throughout Ford’s presidency, 509
and Sadat-Begin meeting, 527–29, 530
Sevareid’s commentaries on, 257, 294, 312, 335, 615
space coverage, 332–35, 336–39, 407, 408–26, 436
the Tet Offensive, 366–86
and Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 533–34
and treatment of blacks, 331–32
and U.S.-Soviet Wheat Deal, 474
Vietnam War coverage, 300, 301, 340–54, 356, 361–63, 364–86, 512–13
Watergate coverage, 474–79, 496–97, 501
CBS eye device logo, 200, 202, 203
CBS Morning News, 58, 518
Cronkite-Reagan interview on, 572–73
CBS Morning Show, 314, 523
CBS News, 158, 179–80
“anchorman” term, 115, 141, 142, 161, 203, 543
“Bicentennial Minutes,” 514
Conquest, 257
creation of, 160
Cronkite and Murrow at, 172, 175, 176–77, 203, 206–10, 220
dismissals from, 531
editorializing policy at, 382, 384
Emmy Awards, 192, 471, 514
Face the Nation, 179, 180, 199, 344, 345, 376, 425–26, 471, 620, 660–61
and Freedom 7 mission, 227–29
and Friendship 7 mission, 232, 233–36
and Huntley and Brinkley challenge, 185, 187, 188, 189, 205–6
and instant replays for sports events, 202
and Liberty Bell 7 space flight, 229–30
Man in Orbit special, 235
memorial service for Cronkite, 662–63
Mike Wallace Interview, The, 249
Murrow and Paley at, 207–8, 209, 217–18, 219, 225–26
Murrow’s departure from, 225–26
vs. NBC News, 175–76
Night Beat, 249
Nixon vs., 440–48, 451, 454–55, 457–58, 466
Pick the Winner program, 188, 212
PM East, 249
Presidential Countdown program, 211–16
retirement policy, 531
and second-place status, 210, 216–17, 242, 248, 284, 315, 316
space race coverage, 191–93, 194–97
special-events team, 223, 225
Sunday News Special, 189
“Vietnam: The Hawks and the Doves,” 341
Westmoreland v. CBS, 570
See also CBS Reports; 60 Minutes
CBS News Cairo bureau, 562, 565
CBS News, Cronkite and
“Biography of a Bookie Joint,” 231
CBS Reports, 230, 231, 232, 237, 343, 449–51, 570–72, 577–78
“Children of Apartheid” documentary, 559
coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 171, 225
Cronkite as CBS News special correspondent, 547–48, 554, 578, 586–87, 594
Cronkite in Cairo, 560–65
Cronkite-Mubarak interview, 562–63
Cronkite on USIA blacklist, 571–72, 620
Cronkite’s CBS News Special Reports, 258, 283–84, 287, 296
; Cronkite’s retirement contract, 547–48, 567–68, 586–87, 594
Cronkite’s return to Vietnam, 577
Cronkite-Wussler collaboration, 224–25
and end of Cronkite age, 568
Eyewitness program, 179, 226, 228, 242, 243–45, 250, 253, 261, 262
Kennedy inauguration, 221–22
1950 elections, 154, 155
1952 Election Night coverage, 166–70
1952 political conventions, 159–66
1953 Yucca Flats, Nevada blast, 175, 176
1956 Election Night coverage, 188–89
1956 political conventions, 183–85, 186, 187
1957 Playhouse 90 promotion, 190–91
1960 Election Night coverage, 220
1960 Olympic Games, 201–3
1960 political conventions, 203–6, 208–11
1960 Presidential Countdown program, 211–16
1962 America’s Cup race, 243–45, 250, 253
and Rather on CBS Evening News, 550, 553, 565, 566
and Reagan assassination attempt, 552
and Sadat assassination, 560–65
salaries, 166, 199, 547–48, 554
space race correspondent, 191–93, 194–97, 224, 226–30, 232–37
and The Twentieth Century broadcasts, 179, 190, 191–94, 195, 196, 199, 200–201, 319, 320, 344, 350
Universe science magazine, 548, 554–58, 567, 568
“Walter Lippmann, Year End” interview, 232
and You Are There broadcasts, 173–75, 176, 178, 179, 189, 191, 192, 196, 199, 333, 385, 482
CBS News Extra, 235
CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report, 282–83, 356
CBS News Moscow bureau, 551
CBS News Saigon bureau, 367
CBS News southern bureau, Atlanta, GA, 330
CBS News Special Report
on African Americans’ freedom struggle, 258, 296
on Agnew’s resignation, 493
American Assassins, The, 283–84
“Hour with Ed Murrow, An,” 335
“Battle of Ia Drang Valley,” 348–49
“Cape Kennedy Disaster,” 337
“Correspondents Report, The,” 442
Cronkite’s final, 628–29
“D-Day Plus Twenty Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy,” 114, 288, 298–99
“Earth Day: A Question of Survival,” 432–33
on end of the cold war, 592
on end of Vietnam War, 512
on environmental issues, 430
during Ford’s presidency, 511
on Moratorium Day protests, 443
“109 Days to Venus,” 287
“Report from Vietnam: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?,” 369, 371, 374, 375, 376–86, 392, 393, 394–95, 513, 569, 570
“Showdown in Iran,” 534
“The Summer Ahead,” 296
“T Minus 4 Years, 4 Months, 30 Days, and Counting,” 332–33
To the Moon, 337–38
“Vietnam Perspective,” 351–52, 354
CBS News Sunday Magazine, 363
CBS News Washington, D.C., bureau, 189, 255, 265, 294, 304, 325, 471, 476, 484, 485, 525
CBS Radio News, 40, 41, 47, 48–49, 64, 71, 73, 96, 185, 234, 247
Battle of Britain coverage on, 73–75
vs. CBS TV, 172
Cronkite and Clinton impeachment verdict on, 629
Cronkite as correspondent for KMBC, 146, 147–49, 151–52
Cronkite-Carter call-in program, 525–26
Cronkite-Glenn interview on, 627–28
Cronkite’s “The American Challenge” reports, 501
Cronkite’s “Answer, Please!” show, 199
Cronkite’s reports for, 58, 101, 104, 108
Cronkite’s voice on, 147
and Kennedy assassination, 273
KTBC radio, Austin, TX, 40, 285–86
Lowell Thomas with, 30
Murrow as war correspondent for, 74–76, 78, 101, 120, 124, 127, 130
Murrow’s job offers to Cronkite, 105–8, 151, 152
Murrow with, 47–48, 60–61, 64, 73, 154, 165, 291
and 1964 elections, 309
Nixon and Cronkite’s commentaries for, 446–47
Nuremberg trials coverage, 131
“Postcripts to the 20th Century,” 629
television and, 115–16, 181
WCBS-AM radio, New York, 331, 362, 512
CBS Reports, 293, 308
“Abortion and the Law,” 343
“Biography of a Bookie Joint,” 231
“Can We Get Out?,” 300
Cronkite and, 230, 231, 232, 237, 343, 449–51
“D-Day Plus Twenty Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy,” 298–99
Eisenhower interview on, 230
on environmental issues, 429–30
“Harvest of Shame,” 208, 217, 219, 335
“Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam,” 577
Lippmann interview on, 232
“1984 Revisited,” 570–72
“Selling of the Pentagon, The,” 449–51, 460–61
on space exploration, 237
“Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, The,” 569–70
Who Speaks for Birmingham?, 245–46
CBS Special Reports bulletins, 336, 337
CBS Sports, 223, 565
CBS Television
Nielsen ratings and, 288–89
president of, 172, 188, 210, 211, 289
CBS Television News, 149–51
Cronkite’s first TV newscast, 152–53
first director of, 149
CBS This Morning, 666
CBS TV
Cronkite and The Morning Show, 178–79, 180, 196
Cronkite on Letterman, 635
Cronkite on Mary Tyler Moore Show, 498–99
Cronkite on Murphy Brown, 613
Cronkite’s announcement of Kennedy’s death, 275–76, 281
Cronkite’s Kennedy assassination coverage, 268–84
experimental TV broadcasts, 115
first president of, 158, 159–60
first televised political conventions (1948), 141, 159
See It Now program, 156–57, 177, 178, 218, 291, 293, 335
Suspense drama, 171
WCBS-TV, New York, 500, 515, 616
CBS TV network division, 189
CBS TV stations division, 189
CBS World News Roundup, 64
Cedar Rapids Gazette, 148
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 401, 502
and Cronkite-CIA rumor, 519
Pike Committee report on, 508
and Vietnam War, 349
Chaffee, Roger B., 336
Challenger space shuttle disaster, 590, 591, 603, 626
Chamber of Commerce, St. Joseph, MO, 442–43
Chancellor, John, 188, 219, 328, 384, 465, 480, 498, 523, 567, 575, 661
Chaney, James, 297, 301
channel surfing, 252
Channing, Carol, 611
Chaplin, Charlie, 579
Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, 410
Charlemane (puppet), 178–79
Charles, Ray, 652
Charles Street Club, London, 124
Charlie’s Angels (ABC TV), 517
Chauncey, Tom, 583, 584
Chauncey, Tom, II, 583
Chayefsky, Paddy, 520, 521
Cheney, Dick, 342, 636
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, 258
Chesterfield Club, Kansas City, MO, 50
Chevron Oil Company, 437
Chicago antiwar demonstrators/protests, 400–401, 402–6
Chicago Daily News, 32, 334
“Chicago Eight,” 406
Chicago Police Department, 400, 404, 405–6
Chicago Sun, 249
Chicago Tribune, 53
Chicago World’s Fair, 1933, 35–36, 38
“Children of Apartheid” (CBS News), 559
children’s shows
Captain Kangaroo (CBS TV), 179, 330, 482
CBS Saturday morning, 458
China (see People’s Republic of China)
China Syndrome, The (movie), 533–34
Chi Phi fraternity (UT), 36, 37, 43–44
Christian Coalition, 623, 630–31, 636
Christian, George, 379, 380, 383–84, 395
Christian Science Monitor, The, 228
Chung, Connie, 485, 487, 509, 548, 550, 565, 647
Church, Frank, 517
Churchill, Sir Winston, 83, 89, 90, 147, 191
Church, Wells, 151
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 294–95, 296
civil rights movement, 177, 245–46, 257, 258, 262, 294–98, 301, 328–32, 395–96
Clark, Blair, 246, 307, 356–57, 365
Clark, Bob, 267
Clarke, Arthur C., 193, 224, 415–16, 418, 421, 426
Clark, James G., Jr., 328
Clark, Wesley, 638
Clay, Cassius (Muhammad Ali), 202–3
Clearing the Air (Schorr), 519
Cleveland, Grover, 581
Clifford, Clark, 462, 574
Clinton, Bill, 496
Cronkite and, 620, 625–26
on The Cronkite Report, 619
and Cronkite’s death, 665
impeachment proceedings against, 625, 629
and 1992 elections, 610, 611
and 1996 elections, 621
presidency of, 614, 624–25
Clinton, Chelsea, 626
Clinton, Hillary, 620, 623, 625–26, 644
Clooney, George, 516, 649, 653, 654, 659
Clooney, Nick, 516, 653
Clooney, Nina, 653
Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology, The (Commoner), 432–33, 438
cloture vote, 295
Cloud, Stanley, 107
CNN (Cable News Network), 490, 508–9, 534, 558, 567, 621, 639
American Morning, 642
Cronkite and Glenn’s second space mission, 627, 628
Cronkite’s D-day (Plus 50) coverage for, 620
and Cronkite’s death, 659
and Dukakis death penalty question, 600
Gulf War coverage, 604–5, 607
Larry King Live, 613, 665–66
and 9/11 terrorists attacks, 633–34, 635, 636
and Northridge earthquake, 612–13
Turner and, 584, 585, 586