as president of CBS, 73, 152
and Smith’s resignation from CBS, 246–47
and Turner bid for CBS, 585
and Watergate scandal, 476–78
Palmer, Bud, 202
Panama Canal treaties, 527
Pan American Airlines, 453–54, 554
Pappas, Ike, 418, 435, 509, 604
Parade magazine, 27, 28, 30
Parker, Charlie, 21
Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX, 266, 268, 269, 271, 273, 274, 278, 279
Parris, John, 82
Paskman, Ralph, 362
Patterson, Eugene, 329
Patton, George S., 125, 131
Patton (movie), 537
PBS documentaries, 34, 134
Peabody Awards, 250
for CBS News, 192, 283
Cronkite’s, 258, 548
Kuralt’s, 364
Murrow’s, 108, 149, 208
Peace Corps, 472
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 76
Pearson, Drew, 309
Pelley, Scott, 489, 666
Pendergast, Tom, 61
Pentagon Papers, 458–60, 461–62, 463
Pentagon Propaganda Machine, The (Fulbright), 449
People Magazine, 523, 590
People’s Republic of China, Nixon’s visit to, 466, 467–69
Peoria Journal Star, 516
Perlstein, Rick, 305
Perot, Ross, 611
Perry Mason (CBS TV), 291
Pershing, John J., 18
Person to Person (CBS News), 189
Pétain, Philippe, 82
Peterson, Roger Tory, 438
Petite Amateur Naval Satellite, 629
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 318
photo ops, 518
Pick the Winner (CBS News), 188, 211
Pierpoint, Robert, 287, 326, 336, 353
with CBS News, 257, 259–60, 265
and Kennedy assassination, 267, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278
and Murrow, 209, 259
Pinkley, Virgil, 113, 114, 115
Pizzey, Allen, 605
Place to Be, The (Mudd), 189
Plante, Bill, 295–96, 332, 352, 361, 362, 416
Playboy Channel, 558
Playboy magazine, 24, 75, 103, 177, 511, 522
Player, Louis, 453
Playhouse 90 (CBS TV), 190–91
Pletch, Ernest “Larry,” 62, 63
Plow That Broke the Plains, The (TV documentary), 193
PM East (CBS News), 249
Poland, 553
police corruption, 231
political conventions
1948, 141, 159
1952, 159–66
1956, 181, 182, 183–85, 186, 187
1960, 187, 203–6, 208–11
1964, 292, 293, 303–6, 307–17
1968, 399–401
1972, 471–72
1976, 515–16, 517–19
1980, 540–43
1984, 573–77
Polk, George C., 458
Polonsky, Abraham, 175
Polster, Sandor, 28, 518, 550
Poniewozik, James, 20
Pony Express, 15
Post, Bob, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101–2, 108
“Postcripts to the 20th Century” (CBS Radio), 629
Postman, Neil, 557
Potomac Panorama (TV morning show), 189
Powell, Jody, 526, 564
Powers, John “Shorty,” 229–30, 233
Powers, Ron, 24
Powers That Be, The (Halberstam), 158, 242, 301, 370, 533
Prague Spring reform movement, Czechoslovakia’s, 400
Pravda, 139, 198
Prescott College, 453
presidential candidates, fund-raising by, 204
Presidential Countdown (CBS News), 211–16
presidential debates, Kennedy-Nixon, 204–5, 219, 220
presidential elections
1960, 203–4
1964, 291–92, 293
1968, 357, 364, 365
1980, 535–36, 537–39
1988, 597–99, 600
1992, 609, 610–11
1996, 621
2000, 631–32
2004, 638, 640, 641, 642
See also political conventions
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 543
Presidential Round Up (ABC News), 220
President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, 435
President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (Warren Commission), 283
prime-time television, 289, 596
Prohibition, 25
Project Mercury, 224, 227, 232–34, 236–37, 257, 408, 422, 430
propaganda films, U.S. Department of Defense, 449–50
Proud to Serve (documentary), 34
Providence Journal, 500
Prudential Insurance Company of America, 191
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 500, 554, 555, 558, 576, 578, 617, 632, 648, 652, 666
public service programs, 610
Pucinski, Roman, 403
Pulitzer Prize, 232
Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age, The (Barber), 536
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, 13
Purple Pup, The (school newspaper), 26, 29
Pyle, Ernie, 170
Quinn, William, 305
Quint, Bert, 361, 384
quiz shows, television, 153, 155, 158, 166, 186–87
Rabel, Ed, 418
racial segregation, 24–25, 177
radio, 291
broadcast radio during 1930s, 30–31, 37–38, 40
coverage of 1950 election night on, 154
as the medium of World War II, 113
news coverage shift from radio to TV, 165
radio commentators, 30, 47
radio networks, 40, 115
radio news, 47–49, 71, 115, 149–50
Sirius XM Radio, 660
wire service news to, 30, 54, 71
See also CBS Radio
Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), 207, 601
Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner, 455–56
radio career, Cronkite’s
KCMO, Kansas City, MO, 46–52
KMBC, Kansas City, MO, 146, 147–49, 151–52
KNOW, Austin, TX, 40–41
radio voice, 31, 46, 146–47
salaries, 146, 147
sports broadcasts, 40–41, 49, 59, 85
WKY, Oklahoma City, OK, 59
Raisky, Hugh, 323–24
Rand Corporation, 458, 459, 460
Randolph, U.S.S., 234
Rand, Seymour, 452
Rash, Bryson, 157
Rather, Dan, 287, 295, 305, 306, 326, 349, 484, 509, 514, 558, 620
adjectives for Cronkite, 509–10
at Betsy Cronkite’s funeral, 644
and brutal treatment at 1968 DNC, 402–3
and civil rights movement, 328, 332, 396
on Cronkite, 327
Cronkite-Rather feud, 595–97, 604, 644, 645, 646
and Cronkite’s death, 660
Dan Rather Reports, 644
dismissal from CBS, 641–43
with HDNet, 643–44
as host of 60 Minutes, 533
and Kennedy assassination, 265, 266, 269, 272, 274, 277, 278, 283
and 1960 political conventions, 205, 206, 208, 209–10
and 1964 political conventions, 309, 402–3
and Nixon, 441, 442, 467, 468, 471, 4
81, 496, 502, 505, 506
Peabody Award to, 283
as possible successor to Cronkite, 532, 537
replaces Cronkite on Evening news, 548–51
See also CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
Ray, James Earl, 409
Rayburn, Sam, 148–49, 162
Reader’s Digest, 412
Reagan, Ronald, 28, 365, 455, 496, 562, 605
attempted assassination of, 551–52
Cronkite-Reagan interview, 572–73
and fortieth anniversary of D-day, 572–73
and 1976 elections, 517, 518
and 1980 elections, 537, 538, 540, 541, 543
and 1984 elections, 573, 576–77
and USIA blacklist, 571–72, 620
Reasoner, Harry, 194–95, 229, 258, 306, 310, 318, 351, 384, 435, 516, 523, 648
Redford, Robert, 577
Red Scare (Carleton), 597
Red Skelton Show, The (CBS TV), 184
Redstone rockets, 227, 228, 229, 236, 337
Reed, James, 25
Reed, John, 639
Reed, Ralph, 623
Reich, Charles, 437
René Dubos Center for Human Environment, 438
Rennie, Missie, 572
Reporter’s Life, A (Cronkite), 15, 20, 40, 109, 139, 313, 355, 374, 461, 513, 597, 622, 656
“Report from Vietnam: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?” (CBS News), 369, 371, 374, 375, 376–86, 392, 393, 394–95, 513, 569, 570
Reporting Live (Stahl), 476, 504
“Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy,” Murrow’s, 176, 178
Republican National Convention
CBS’s bugging of credentials committee, 164
first televised, 1948, 141
1928 (Kansas City), 26
1952 (Chicago), 159–66
1956 (San Francisco), 183–85, 186, 187
1960 (Los Angeles), 203–6, 208–11
1964 (San Francisco), 304–6, 307–15
1968 (Miami), 399–400
1972 (Miami), 471–72
1976 (Kansas City), 515–16, 517–18
1980 (Detroit), 540–42
1984 (Dallas), 576–77
Reston, James, 360, 539, 599
Retirement Living TV, 653
Reuters, 134
Reynolds, Frank, 423
Rhea, Louise, 37
Rhode Island Sound, 243
Rhodes, David, 666
Rice Hotel, Houston, TX, 266
Rich, Frank, 639
Richard Hudnut Corporation, 51
Richman, Joan F., 336–37, 396, 413, 415
Richmond News Leader, The, 189, 294
Richmond, Ray, 619
Ri, Duong Van, 362
right-wing conservatives, 623
Robb, Lynda Johnson, 393, 415
Robertson, Pat, 623, 631, 636
Robinson, Hubbell, 160, 163
Robinson, Jackie, 513
Rockefeller Center, NBC studios in, 253–54, 279
Rockefeller, Nelson, 307, 311, 365, 391
rocket launches, 121, 191–92, 194–95, 197, 224, 227–28, 336, 338–39, 412, 414
Roe v. Wade, 522, 598
Rogers, Buddy, 20
Rogers, Roy, 15
Rolling Stone magazine, 135, 592, 593, 595
Rollins College, 444
Rome, Italy, 633–35
1960 Summer Olympics in, 202–3
Romney, George W., 307, 365
Rooney, Andy, 574, 582, 590, 618, 621, 638
archival papers of, 648
on Cronkite, 147, 148–49, 195, 200, 242, 293, 357, 367, 451, 557, 586, 600, 613, 636, 642
and Cronkite during World War II, 87–88, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98–99, 102, 107
and Cronkite on speaking engagements, 618–19
and Cronkite’s death, 661–62
death of, 662
memoir, 622
on 60 Minutes, 524
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 638
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 25, 31, 55, 71–72, 76, 81, 83, 89, 90, 128
Roosevelt, Theodore, 13, 55, 303, 564
Roper, Elmo, 184
Rose, Charlie, 666
Roseland Ballroom, New York City, 601–2
Rosenthal, Abe, 459, 652
Rostow, Walter, 379, 459
Rostropovich, Mstislav, 620
Rotary Club, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 148
Rowan, Steve, 331
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC TV), 217
Royal Air Force (RAF), 89, 90–91, 126
Royal Canadian Air Force, 125
Rubin, Jerry, 402, 406
Ruby, Jack, 279–80, 282
Ruckelshaus, William, 431–32, 436
Rudd, Hughes, 312–13, 330, 331, 514–15, 520
Rudolph, Wilma, 203
Rumsfeld, Donald, 342, 636
Rush, Deborah, 579, 580, 656–57
Rusk, Dean, 350, 351, 379
Russel, Tony, 277
Russell, Charles, 174, 175
Russell, Richard, 294
Russia. See Soviet Union
Russo, Michael A., 185
Ryan, Bill, 273, 275
Ryan, Cornelius, 117–18
Sable, Ken, 559
Sadat, Anwar, 501, 527–30, 560–61
Safer, Morley, 302, 346–49, 351, 352, 361, 384, 398, 441, 510, 550–51, 574, 638, 642, 648, 659
Safire, William, 445, 529
Sagan, Carl, 423, 555
sailing, 243–45, 306, 317, 427, 439, 471, 480, 501, 524, 526–27, 535, 539, 579–80, 581–82, 594, 599, 602, 608, 620, 625–26, 649
Sakowitz Department Store, Houston, TX, 27
Salant, Richard “Dick,” 406, 434, 450, 462, 524
and AFTRA strike, 358
and Apollo 11, 413, 422
and CBS News involvement with the CIA, 519
and Cronkite-Schorr dispute over Nixon, 506–7
and Cronkite’s comedy show appearance, 498, 499
and Cronkite’s Evening News sign-off, 262–63
and Cronkite’s Pan Am junkets, 453–54
and Cronkite’s successor, 532
death of, 616–17
Friendly as replacement for, 284, 354
and Friendly’s resignation, 354, 356
half-hour format for Evening News, 256, 257
and Kennedy assassination, 269
Leonard as replacement for, 531
and 1968 political conventions, 365, 399
and political correctness of CBS Evening News, 331
as president of CBS News, 210, 248–49, 250, 284, 290, 617
promotions given by, 465–66
removal as head of CBS News, 292–93
replaces Mickelson, 248
retirement from CBS News, 533
and Vietnam War, 361–62, 368–69, 376
and Watergate scandal, 475, 477–78
Salinger, Pierre, 259, 260, 261, 278, 390
Salisbury, Harrison, 94–95, 100, 105–6, 137, 352
Salt Lake Tribune, 321
Sam Houston Hall, Houston, TX, 25
Sanchez, Manolo, 466
San Diego Union-Tribune, 448
San Francisco, California, 469–70
San Francisco Chronicle, 92, 469, 606
San Francisco Examiner, 306
San Jacinto High School, Houston, TX, 29–33, 35, 37, 52, 102
Sapulpa, Oklahoma, 16–17, 19
Satellite Education Service, 554
Saturday Evening Post, 20, 92, 181, 231
Saturday News and Weather (CBS News), 17
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Saturday Night Live (NBC TV), 217, 526
Saturn 1B rocket, 336, 338
Saturn V rocket, 338, 412, 414
Saudi Arabia, 604
Sauter, Van Gordon, 565, 566–67, 568, 578, 595, 596
Save the Birds (Peterson), 438
Savile Club, London, 105
Sawyer, Diane, 377, 383, 499, 586
Sawyer, Forrest, 607
Schakne, Robert, 374, 375, 384, 484
Scheer, Julian, 411
Scheffler, Phil, 368
Schenkel, Chris, 202
Schieffer, Bob, 146–47, 306–7, 432, 510, 512, 549, 575, 586, 620, 660, 661
Schirra, Wally, 408, 413–14, 415, 417, 418, 421, 426, 433, 660–61
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 454
Schneider, Jack, 477
Schneider, John, 354, 355
Schoenbrun, David, 209, 210, 249
Schorr, Daniel, 176, 194, 326, 485, 496, 514, 519
and Buchanan lawsuit, 447–48
with CNN, 508–9
Cronkite-Schorr dispute over Nixon, 505–9
and Nixon, 441, 445, 471, 474, 476, 478, 481
report on Goldwater’s Germany trip, 304–6
Schoumacher, David, 425
Schrader, Marty, 115
Schumacher, David, 337
Schweitzer, Albert, 522
Schwerner, Michael, 297, 301
Science and Survival (Commoner), 433
Scott, Denton, 95, 96
Scott, George C., 537
Scranton, William, 305, 309, 311
Scripps, Edward Willis, 42, 84
Scripps Howard News Service, 43, 58
“Sea Fever” (Masefield), 662
Seale, Bobby, 406
Sea of Tranquility (Moon), 412
Secrets (Ellsberg), 459
Secret Service, U.S.
in Cairo, 564
and Kennedy assassination, 267, 268, 269, 273, 276, 279
Sedia, Dick, 376
See It Now (CBS News), 157, 177, 178, 219, 291, 293, 335
Segal, Mark Allan, 494–96
Selassie, Haile, 280
“Selling of the Pentagon, The,” 449–51, 460–61
Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings, 1966, 354
Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, 465, 466
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of, 617, 633–36
Serling, Rod, 200
Sevareid, Eric, 299, 359, 408, 508, 509, 512
as candidate for CBS’s news anchor, 247
Carson interview, 429
CBS Evening News commentaries, 257, 294, 312, 335, 615
with CBS Radio, 154
death of, 615, 616
and Hiroshima, 130–31
and Kennedy assassination, 282, 283
as one of the Murrow Boys, 61, 63–64, 105, 107, 124, 141, 178, 209
and 1964 political conventions, 311, 315, 318
and 1968 political conventions, 400
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