and Nixon, 467, 469, 480, 502, 505, 506
retirement from CBS News, 530–31
on What’s My Line?, 186–87
Seven Days (book/CBS), 236
S-for-Sugar (B-17), 109
Shadel, Bill, 154, 155, 180
Shafer, Jack, 384
Shah of Iran, 534
Shales, Tom, 280, 518, 541, 654
Shamick, John, 490
Shanahan, Eileen, 148
Shaplen, Robert, 199
Shaw, Bernard, 482–85, 487, 600, 605, 606, 612–13
Sheehan, Neil, 346–47, 381, 459
Sheets, Bob, 109
Shepard, Alan B., 227–29, 236, 332, 337, 413
Sherr, Lynn, 338
Shirer, William L., 48, 61, 64, 131
Shoo Shoo Baby (aircraft), 109
Shoss, Fay, 33
Shover, Bill, 583
“Showdown in Iran” (CBS News), 534
Shribman, David, 657
Shriver, Sargent, 472
Shultz, George P., 609, 631
Sidey, Hugh, 536–37
Sidney Lanier Middle School, Houston, TX, 26, 29
Siemens, 129
silent majority, 445
Silent Spring (Carson), 429, 430, 438–39
Silverman, Ed, 273
Simmons, Jim, 46, 51–52
Simon, Bob, 606–7
Simon, Carly, 646
Simon, Joanna, 624, 644–45, 646–47, 649, 653–54, 663
Simon, Paul, 513
Simon, Peter, 650
Simon, Richard, 646
Singiser, Frank, 219
Sirhan, Sirhan, 397, 409
Sirius XM Radio, 660
Six Million Dollar Man, The (ABC TV), 517
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL, 329
60 Minutes (CBS News), 253, 326, 411, 442, 524, 533, 551, 614, 627, 642, 643, 648, 652, 658, 659
60 Minutes Wednesday (CBS News), 640, 641, 642
Slate, 384
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 417
Small, Collie, 92
Smaller Dragon, The (Buttinger), 343
Small, William, 254–56, 265, 293, 295, 304, 380, 454, 466, 471, 484, 485, 515, 516, 517, 529, 645
Smith, Al, 25, 26
Smith, Cecil, 236
Smith, Harry, 58, 660, 661
Smith, Howard K.
with ABC News, 250, 253, 273, 320, 480
with CBS News, 131, 162, 178, 194, 222, 294, 484
memoir, 246
on Mickelson, 248
and Murrow, 61, 105, 107
resignation from CBS News, 246–47
Who Speaks for Birmingham? (CBS Reports), 245–46
Smith, John, 381
Smith, Merriman, 194
and Kennedy assassination, 267–68, 269–70, 271, 273
Smith, Stephen, 390
Smothers Brothers, 357
Snow, Richard, 395
Snyder, Louis, 100
Snyder, Tom, 487
soap operas, 252, 270, 271, 354, 359
Socolow, Sandy, 477, 484, 490, 492, 499, 510, 563, 626, 638
CBS News producer, 307, 324–25, 366, 376, 395, 432, 434
and The Cronkite Report, 619
and Cronkite’s “chair” and “desk” incidents, 549–50, 567
and Cronkite’s death, 661
and Cronkite’s Evening News broadcast, 251, 258
and Kennedy assassination, 273, 281
Salant’s promotion of, 466, 474
and space coverage, 226, 228
and Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 534
and Walters at 1980 GOP Convention, 541, 542–43
Soldiers of the Press (radio show), 104
Solidarity movement, 553
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 501
Sorensen, Ted, 215–16, 390
Soros, George, 630, 631
South Africa, apartheid system in, 559
South by Southeast (Cronkite and Ellis), 580
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 295
Southern Illinois University, 639
Soviet Union, 608–9
Cronkite in Moscow, 136–40, 551–52
and Cuban Missile Crisis, 256
first man in space, 226–27
and missile defense, 197
Sputnik 1 launch, 191–92, 194, 195
START treaty, 608
U.S.-Soviet Wheat Deal, 474
space exploration
and effects on senior citizens, 628
Glenn’s second space mission, 626–29
Moon race, 332–33, 336, 337–38, 407, 408–26
NASA’s Ambassador of Exploration Award to Cronkite, 648
Project Gemini, 332–34, 336, 338
Project Mercury, 224, 227, 232–34, 236–37, 257, 408, 422, 430
space race, 191–93, 194–97, 223–24, 226–30, 232–36
space flight participants (SFPs), 590–91
Space (Michener), 590
Spaceship Earth (EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World, Florida), 591
space shuttle, 589–90
Challenger disaster, 590, 591, 603
space walks, 333, 409
Speakes, Larry, 572
Speer, Albert, 134
Spielberg, Steven, 501, 610
Spindletop (oil field), 23, 36
Spock, Benjamin, 435
sports broadcasts
Cronkite and 1960 Olympic Games, 201–3
Cronkite’s early, 40–41, 49, 59, 85
reconstructed games, 49
Sports in America (Michener), 453
Sputnik 1 launch, 191–92, 194, 195
Sputnik One: The Soviet Space Satellite (CBS News), 194
Squaw Valley, 1960 Winter Olympics at, 201–2, 223
Stahl, Lesley, 471, 474, 476, 503–4, 509
Stalin, Joseph, 177
Stanford, Mrs. Allie F. B., 331
Stanley, Kim, 174
Stanton, Frank, 491, 657
on Agnew, 443
and Cronkite’s early career in TV news, 152, 153, 154, 155, 158
and demotion of Salant, 292
and Eichmann trial, 226
and LBJ, 286–87, 348
on Murrow’s death, 335
and Murrow’s departure from CBS, 226
and political conventions, 311, 316, 399
as president of CBS, 158, 172, 188, 210, 211, 216, 224, 246, 286
and “The Selling of the Pentagon” report, 460–61, 462
and Smith, 246
and space coverage, 227, 229, 332, 418
and Watergate scandal, 477
Starr, Kenneth, 625
Stars and Stripes, 87, 88, 107, 170, 326
Stassen, Harold, 168, 538
State Department, U.S., 346, 401
St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York City, 644, 659, 661
Stein, Gertrude, 38
Steinbeck, John, 346, 579
Steinem, Gloria, 470, 523
Stennis, John, 296
Steve Allen Show, The (NBC TV), 662
Stevens, George, Jr., 632
Stevenson, Adlai, 163, 165, 167, 177, 183–84, 186, 188, 205, 220
Stewart, Alastair, 592
Still Crazy After All These Years (album), 513
Stills, Stephen, 594
St. Joseph, Missouri, 11–12, 13, 14, 15–16, 19, 136, 442–43
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 532
St. Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, MO, 145
Stone, I. F., 446
Story of My Life, The (Darrow), 12
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), 608
Stringer, Ann, 134
Stringer, Bill, 134
Stringer, Howard, 568, 595
Strudwick, Shepperd, 174
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 295, 332
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 342, 400, 401
Sturrock, Jock, 244
Sullivan, Ed, 181, 290, 306, 360
Sullivan, Frank, 404
Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs, 96, 457–58
“Summer Ahead, The” (CBS News), 296
Sun Broadcast Group, 598
Sunday News Special (CBS News), 189, 325
Supreme Court, U.S., 177, 455, 631
Surveyor 7 robot, 426
Suspense (CBS TV), 172
Swayze, John Cameron, 55–56, 150, 156, 176, 186, 187
Swigert, Jack, 428–29, 436
Sylvan Beach, Galveston Bay, 27
Symington, Stuart, 195, 205
Syracuse Herald-Journal, 575
Syracuse University, 453
tabloid news, 531–32, 615, 665–66
Taft, Robert, 164, 308
Talese, Gay, 325
Tales of the South Pacific (Michener), 453
Taylor, Arthur, 477
Taylor, Elizabeth (actress), 190
Taylor, Elizabeth (author), 405
Taylor, Maxwell, 351
telegenic appeal, 141, 151, 153
telegraph system, 23, 65
TelePrompTer, 209
Teletype machines, 53, 54, 126, 129, 258, 264, 268, 269–70
television
cable TV, 543, 558–59
Cronkite as game show host, 158
Cronkite’s 1933 Chicago World’s Fair TV debut, 35–36, 39
global TV service, 416
and influence on presidential elections, 141
Kennedy as “first television president,” 242
1948 political convention coverage, 141, 159
and 1967 AFTRA strike, 357–59
and radio networks after World War II, 115–16
TV license renewals, 475, 477
TV sets in the U.S., 367
as a “vast wasteland,” 229, 265
See also CBS TV; NBC TV
television news
“anchorman” term, 115, 141, 142, 161, 543
celebrity newscasters, 359–60
complexities of, 290–91
Cronkite and quality of, 614–15, 658
Cronkite’s first TV newscast, 152–53
Cronkite with WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C., 152–57, 251, 350, 520
fifteen-minute news format, 250, 256
first color broadcasts, 222, 242, 323
Gulf War as cable TV’s war, 604–5
half-hour news format, 256–63
infancy of, 149–58
live telecasts to Europe, 253–54
Murrow legacy in, 218
Nixon vs., 440–48, 451, 454–55, 457–58, 466
shift from radio to TV, 165
Vietnam War as “Television War,” 379
See also CBS News; NBC News
television ratings system, 288–90
Tell Me a Story (Hewitt), 124, 411, 511
Telstar communications satellite, 253–54, 416, 658
Terry, Carolyn, 497
Texas Air National Guard, 640–41
Texas Dental School, 20, 24, 27
Texas Monthly, 659
Texas School Book Depository, Dallas, TX, 267, 276, 278–79
Texas Star Hotel, Fort Worth, TX, 266
Texas Supreme Court, 37
Texas Theatre, Dallas, TX, 276–77
Texas, U.S.S., 81, 82–84, 85
Theatre Arts magazine, 170
The Week’s News (WTOP-TV show), 155–56
Thieu, Nguyen Van, 372
This Is New York (CBS Radio), 308
This Week (ABC News), 567
Thomas, Lowell, 30, 31, 48, 160, 167, 168, 181, 192, 198–99, 203, 262, 360, 532
Thompson, Hunter S., 592
Thompson, Virgil, 21
Thornburgh, Dick, 643
303rd Bomber Group, 109
Three Lives (Stein), 38
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 533–34
Threlkeld, Richard, 509
Thurmond, Strom, 294, 296
Tiffany Network, 176, 179, 234, 315, 325, 331, 411, 585
Time-Life broadcasting, 310, 519
Time magazine, 20, 30, 125, 167, 187, 324, 433, 492, 536
astronauts as its “Men of the Year,” 409
Big Three anchormen on cover of, 445–46
cover story of Cronkite, 487
and Cronkite’s Middle East intervention, 528–29
on Walters, 523, 524
Time Out (album), 593
Tippit, James, 276
Tisch, Laurence, 585–86, 596
“T Minus 4 Years, 4 Months, 30 Days, and Counting” (CBS News), 332–33
“Today and Tomorrow” columns, Lippmann’s, 232
Today show (NBC TV), 178, 179, 217, 495, 516, 523, 572, 623
Todd, Mike, 190, 191
Todman, Bill, 158
Toklas, Alice B., 38
Toland, John, 194
To Make a Newer World (R. Kennedy), 365
Tonight Show, The (NBC TV), 179, 180, 495, 499
Toole, John Kennedy, 363
Topeka Daily Capital, The, 516
To the Moon (CBS News), 337–38
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, A (CBS Eyewitness), 250
Townsend, Dallas, 234
Trade Mart, Dallas, TX, 265, 266
Travels with Charley (Steinbeck), 579
Trial of Billy Jack, The (movie), 521
Trout Robert, 48, 49, 160, 185, 186–87, 648
and 1964 political conventions, 309–10, 313, 317, 318, 320–21
Truman, Harry S., 17, 46, 139, 141, 147, 163, 204, 341
Cronkite’s interview with, 157–58
“Legacy of Harry S. Truman, The” (CBS News), 574
Truman Doctrine, 138
Trump, Donald, 630
Tuchman, Barbara W., 380
Tulane University, 61, 512
Turner, Ted, 516, 584–85, 586, 658
Turner Broadcasting, 558
TV Guide, 410, 464, 636
Twelve Hours of Sebring race, 180–81
Twentieth Century, The (CBS News), 179, 190, 191–94, 195, 196, 199, 200–201, 319, 320, 344, 350, 430
Twenty-First Century, The (CBS News), 430, 437
Twitter, 282
2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke), 415, 418
U-boats, German, 87
Umphress, F. E., Jr., 109
Understanding Great Books (Discovery Channel), 610
Union Carbide, 430, 437
Union Oil, 429
Unipressers, 53–65
United Artists, 491
United Nations, 630
United Press International (UPI), 300, 320
International News Service and, 325
and Kennedy assassination, 267, 268, 269–70, 273
and LBJ’s death, 489, 490
United Press (UP), Cronkite with, 30, 41–42, 218
chief correspondent, 134–40, 145–46
“Dean of the Air-War Writers,” 108–9, 129
departure from UP, 146
establishment of UP bureaus, 126–29
in Moscow, 136–40
Nuremberg trials, 131–36, 654
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bsp; war correspondent, 76–132
wire service reporter, 53–58, 61–65, 69–76
United States—Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of the Defense (Pentagon report), 458
UNIVAC (computer), 166–70
Universe (CBS science magazine), 548, 554–58, 567, 568, 609
University of Illinois–Chicago, 484
University of Kansas–Lawrence, 160
University of Michigan, 193
University of Minnesota, 141
University of Missouri–Columbia, 29, 36, 50, 55, 330, 435
University of Oklahoma, 59
University of Texas at Austin, 59, 208, 231, 379
Cronkite at, 36–41, 44–45
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 371, 597, 648, 651
Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communications, 583
University of Tulsa, 59
University of Wisconsin Medical School, 632
UN Plaza co-op, Cronkite’s, 624, 628, 637, 644–45, 646, 652, 653
Up to the Minute (CBS News), 153, 155, 641
USA Patriot Act, 638
USA Today, 592, 608
U.S.A. Trilogy (Dos Passos), 131
U.S. Information Agency (USIA), 226, 245, 571–72, 620
U.S. Open, 595, 633
V-2 rocket, German, 121, 224
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 580–81
Van Dyke, Dick, 179
Vanguard satellite launch, 194–95
Vanity Fair, 591, 662, 663
Vann, John Paul, 346
Vanocur, Sander, 188, 526
Vantage Point, The (Johnson), 383, 490
Vero Beach Press Journal, 628
V-E (“Victory in Europe”) Day, 125–26, 620
Viacom, 642
“Vietnam Perspective” (CBS News), 351–52, 354
Vietnam Perspective (Pocket Books), 351
Vietnam: The Deadly Decision (CBS News), 300
”Vietnam: The Hawks and the Doves” (CBS News), 341
Vietnam War, 257, 262, 300, 327, 340–42, 350–54, 356, 361–63, 364–65, 389–90, 401
antiwar movement, 389, 400–401, 402–6, 443, 444
Battle of Hué, 369, 372–73
Battle of Ia Drang Valley, 348–49, 350
Bau Me atrocity, 448–49, 458
black Vietnam servicemen, 331
correspondents tours of duty in Vietnam, 353, 361
Cronkite’s “Report from Vietnam,” 376–86, 392, 393, 394–95, 513, 569, 570
and Cronkite’s tours of Vietnam, 342–47, 368–76, 491–92, 577
the demilitarized zone (DMZ), 340, 341
Easter Offensive, 382
end of, 512, 513
fragging incidents, 365
Gulf of Tonkin incident, 300–301, 302, 341
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 301, 362, 380, 394
heroin use by troops, 364–65
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