Cronkite (109 page)

   under fictional name Walter Wilcox, 49

   
See also
CBS entries; radio career; television; television news

broadcast journalism

   female broadcaster and producer, 598–99

   female broadcasters at ABC, 523–25, 540–42

   female broadcasters at CBS, 471, 474, 476, 485, 487, 503–4, 509, 525

   first female producer-scriptwriter at CBS, 500

broadcast license transfers, 285–86

Brokaw, Meredith, 486

Brokaw, Tom, 485–86, 487, 504, 516, 609, 614, 624, 640, 641, 661

Brooks, Fred, 190–91

Broun, Heywood, 37

Brower, David, 429

Brown, Aaron, 617, 633–34, 635, 645

Brown, Cecil, 105

Brown, James, 618

Brown, Jerry, 517, 598

Brown, John, 24

Brown, Pat, 452

Brown, Skip, 468

Brown University, 500

Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
, 177, 178

Brubeck, Dave, 593

Bruce, Lenny, 497

Brussels, 121–22, 129, 130, 131

Bryant, Anita, 496

Brynner, Yul, 174

Buchanan, Henry, 447–48

Buchanan, Patrick, 440–41, 442, 444, 445, 448, 455–56

Buchenwald, 127, 180

Buchwald, Ann, 453

Buchwald, Art, 37, 453, 582, 621

Buckley, William F., 243, 402, 467, 469, 559, 578, 623, 651

Bucyrys Telegraph-Forum
, 268

Buffalo Bayou, 23

Buffett, Jimmy, 581–82, 628, 646, 652, 656, 665

Bulge, Battle of the, 122–23

Bull, Stephen B., 466

Bundy, McGeorge, 342, 355

Burch, Dean, 442

Burdett, Winston, 105

Burke, Edmund, 246

Bush, Barbara, 608, 611

Bush, George H. W., 519, 538, 603–4

   and Gulf War, 604–8

   and 1988 elections, 598, 599, 600

   and 1992 elections, 610, 611

Bush, George W., 342

   Cronkite’s criticisms of, 637, 638–39

   and 9/11 terrorist attacks, 635–36

   and Texas Air National Guard incident, 640–41, 642

   and 2000 election, 631

   and 2004 election, 638, 641, 642

Butler, Paul, 184

Buttinger, Joseph, 343

Button, Dick, 202

Byrd, Robert C., 294

cable television, 543, 558–59

   Cronkite’s cable TV company, 619

   Gulf War and, 604–5

   HDNet, 643–44

Caen, Herb, 92, 306, 469, 606   

CAFOC—Care and Feeding of Cronkite—Club, 308, 311, 316

Cagney, James, 95

Caldera, Juan, 607

Caldwell, Douglas, 340

Caldwell, Earl, 454–55

Califano, Joseph, 341–42

Cambridge American Cemetery, England, 654–55

Camel News Caravan
(NBC News), 150, 175–76, 188

Camelot, Kennedy years as, 243–45

Camera Never Blinks Twice, The
(Rather and Herskowitz), 509–10

Campbell, Joseph, 428

Camp David accords, 560, 562

Campus Cub
(school newspaper), 29, 31–32, 33

Canadian army, 125

Candid Camera
(CBS TV), 252

Can, Ha Thuc, 347, 362

“Can the World Be Saved?” (
CBS Evening News
), 430–31, 432, 438

“Can We Get Out?” (
CBS Reports
), 300

Cape Canaveral, Florida, 192, 194, 195, 223, 228, 229, 232–33, 235, 410

Cape Cod, 315, 491, 580

Cape Hatteras National Seashore, 602

Cape Kennedy, 333, 337, 409, 412, 415, 418, 627

“Cape Kennedy Disaster” (CBS News), 337

Cape May, New Jersey, 580

Captain Kangaroo
(CBS TV), 179, 330, 482

Caravelle Hotel, Saigon, 347, 361, 374, 375

Carleton, Don, 118, 208–9, 352, 566, 597, 622, 648

Carnegie Hall, 593

Caro, Robert, 285

Carpenter, Liz, 394

Carrico, Charles, 279

Carroll, Wallace, 76

Carson, Jim, 147, 151–52

Carson, Johnny, 179

Carson, Rachel, 429

Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, TX, 266

Carter, Jimmy, 517, 518–19, 520, 560, 573

   Cronkite-Carter radio call-in program, 525–26

   Inaugural Ball, 525

   and Iranian hostage crisis, 534–35, 539

   and Middle East peace process, 529

   and 1980 elections, 538, 542, 543

   and Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cronkite, 543

   at Sadat’s memorial service, 562, 564

Carter, Rosalynn, 525, 534, 535, 564

cartoonists, on Cronkite, 489

Castro, Fidel, 224, 274, 283, 408

Cat from Hué, The
(Laurence), 374

Catholicism, 204, 210, 212, 221, 328

Caulfield, Holden, 443

Cavett, Dick, 583

CBS affiliates, 73, 142, 146, 205, 288

   Cronkite with WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C., 152–57, 251, 350, 520

   KRLD-TV, Dallas, TX, 266, 269, 271, 274, 275

   southern affiliates, 177–78

   WAGA-TV, Atlanta, GA, 328

   WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, MN, 181

   WKMG-TV, Orlando, FL, 444

   WWL-TV, New Orleans, LA, 265, 328, 525

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), 73

   Cronkite on board of directors of, 584, 586

   Cronkite’s renegotiated contract with, 597, 598

   Cronkite’s retirement contract with, 547–48, 567–68, 586–87, 594

   and Memogate, 641–43

   Moonves as CEO of, 641, 642–43, 662, 664

   Turner takeover bid of, 584–85

   under Paley (
see
Paley)

   under Stanton (
see
Stanton)

   under Tisch, 585–86, 596, 604

CBS Entertainment, 190, 252, 498

CBS Evening News
, 103

   candidates for news anchor of, 247, 248–49

   Couric replaces Rather as anchor for, 647, 660

   Cronkite and Edwards on, 179

   Cronkite and fiftieth anniversary of V-E Day, 620

   Cronkite as a replacement for Edwards, 203, 242, 243

   Cronkite named as new anchor for, 249–63

   Cronkite’s retirement from, 542–43, 547

   with Edwards, 205, 223

   Edwards’s departure from, 245, 251

   Rather replaces Cronkite as anchor for, 548–51

CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
, 609

   Cronkite-Rather at 1984 political conventions, 573–77

   Cronkite’s assignments for, 565

   and Cronkite’s “chair” and “desk” incidents, 549–51, 567

   first-place ratings, 568, 595

   Memogate, 641–43

   9/11 coverage, 634

   Rather and Bush–Texas Air National Guard story, 640–41

   Rather-Cronkite feud, 595–97, 604

   Rather’s first broadcast, 548–51

   Rather’s forced dismissal from, 641–43

   Rather’s salary, 549, 553

   ratings decline, 551, 554, 565–66, 641

   and Reagan assassination attempt, 552

   Schieffer as possible successor to Rather, 586

CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

   admitting errors on, 307

   Apollo missions coverage, 336–39, 408–26, 436

   Beatles interview, 290, 291

   bicentennial coverage, 514–15

   “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