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Authors: Douglas Brinkley

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Hitler, Adolf, 48, 60, 74, 77, 119, 133, 177, 305, 306

Hoagland, Richard C., 418

Ho Chi Minh, 345, 350–51, 408

Hodges, Ann, 599

Hoffman, Abbie, 402, 406–7

Hoffman, Wendell, 266–67

Holden, William, 520

Holland, 117, 118, 128, 129

Holliman, John, 605, 606, 627

Holocaust, 126–27, 654

Honolulu Advertiser
, 483

“Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam” (
CBS Reports
), 577

Hoover, Herbert, 26

Hoover, J. Edgar, 191

Hope, Bob, 188, 590

Horn, John, 256

Horne, Lena, 652

Horton, Willie, 599

Hotel Metropole, Brussels, 121

Hotel Metropol, Moscow, 137

Hottelet, Richard C., 77, 105, 136, 194, 351, 509

“Hour with Ed Murrow, An” (CBS News), 336

House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 460–61

House, Edward M., 36

House Judiciary Committee, 502

House Un-American Activities Committee, 214

Houston Chronicle
, 599

Houston Grand Opera, 593

Houston Post
, 26–27, 31

Houston Press
, 32, 38–39, 43, 45, 358

Houston, Texas, Cronkite as youth in, 20–34, 297–98

Howard, Josh, 642, 643

Howard, Oliver Gregg, 77

Howard, Roy, 54

Howe, Quincy, 141, 219

How Many Words Do You Want?
(Midgley), 516

Huffington Post
, 658

Hughes, Emmet John, 194

Hughes, Howard, 243

Hughes, Tim, 623

Hull, Cordell, 25

Hume, Brit, 405, 515

Humphrey, Hubert, 188, 400, 403–4, 409, 481

Hungarian Revolution, 1956, 171

Hungry Waters
(Thomas), 198

Hunskaker, H. E., 43–44

Huntley-Brinkley Report

   AFTRA strike and, 359

   and
Apollo 11
, 423

   
Camel News Caravan
renamed, 188

   
CBS Evening News
first-place ratings over, 364

   civil rights coverage, 328

   Cronkite’s appraisal of, 189

   debut of, 182, 185–86, 187

   half-hour expansion of the, 257, 262

   Nielsen ratings and, 367

   and 1964 elections, 311, 325

   ratings competition between CBS News and, 205–6, 217, 251–52, 256, 265, 289, 295, 364

   renamed the
NBC Nightly News
, 465

   space coverage, 334, 423

Huntley, Chet

   and AFTRA strike, 358, 359

   on Cronkite, 497

   death of, 661

   and Kennedy assassination, 273, 275

   at 1964 GOP Convention, 314

   pairing with Brinkley, 181–82, 207

   retirement from NBC, 460, 465

   and Telstar communications satellite, 253–54

   in Yucca Flats, Nevada, 175

Hussein, Saddam, 605, 607, 636, 637

Huss, Pierre, 48, 64

Huxley, Aldous, 416, 521

Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 225, 259

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, TX, 603

I Can Hear It Now
(album), 587

“I Have a Dream” speech (King), 258

Ikard, Bill, 580

Il Messaggero
, 226

I Love Lucy
(CBS TV), 184, 188, 354

In Celebration of US
(
CBS Evening News
), 514

Inconvenient Truth, An
(Gore), 437

In Pursuit of Happiness
(DNC documentary), 184–85

Inside Edition
(CBS TV), 619, 664

Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, 623–24

intercontinental missiles, 193, 197

Interfaith Alliance, 623, 630, 644

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 46

International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL, 402

International Educational Association, 60

International News Service (INS), 41, 42–43, 82, 83, 96, 102, 325

International Radio and Television Society, 455

International Red Cross, 102, 134

International Unifax machine, 54

Internet, 609, 653

interrupted feedback ear device (IFB), 402, 520

In the Lake of the Woods
(O’Brien), 385

In the Storm of the Eye
(Leonard), 308, 316–17

Iran, hostage crisis in, 534–35, 539

Iraq, and Operation Desert Storm, 604–5, 608

Iraq War, 638, 639

Islamic Revolution, 534

Israel, 527–29, 530, 560, 562

Issues and Answers
(ABC News), 179

Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science and Literature
, 13–14

It’s News to Me
(TV game show), 158

ITV (London), 267

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 517, 518

Jackson, Jesse, 599

Jackson, Michael, 652

Jackson State University, 435

Jaffe, Sam, 519

James, Doug, 498

Jaruzelski, Wojciech, 553

Jaws
(movie), 501, 521

Jennings, Peter, 357, 529, 531, 575, 641, 647

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 630

J. Fred Muggs (chimpanzee), 178

Jim Crow South, 24–25, 297–98, 328

John Birch Society, 304

Johnson, Earl, 72, 73, 103

Johnson, Eric, 590

Johnson, Lady Bird, 40, 285, 286, 320, 392, 394, 491, 578

Johnson, Lyndon B., 219, 406

   creation of Warren Commission, 282

   and Cronkite, 286, 287, 325–26, 374, 379–80, 383, 415, 446, 447, 490–91

   Cronkite’s interviews with, 326, 490

   death of, 489–91

   “If I’ve lost Cronkite” remark, 379–80, 383–84

   and Kennedy’s assassination, 274, 276, 283, 284

   and 1960 elections, 205, 212

   and 1964 elections, 308, 309, 316, 325

   and 1968 elections, 365, 383

   Pentagon Papers and, 458, 459

   purchase of KTBC radio, 285–86

   resignation, 391–95

   signs Civil Rights Act, 296

   and Vietnam War, 301, 348, 350, 379–80, 462

   Vietnam War policy, 340–41, 342, 347, 349, 352, 356, 364–65, 367, 391

Johnson, Tom, 287, 489, 490, 491, 604–5, 627

Jones, Ed, 230

Jones, James Earl, 412–13

Jones, Jesse, 25

Jones, Phil, 509

Jordan, Barbara, 600–601

Jordan, Hamilton, 534

Joseloff, Gordon F., 551–52

journalism schools, 29, 55, 160, 583–84, 618

journalistic integrity, and protecting sources, 454–55

Journey for Our Times, A
(Salisbury), 95

Joyce, Edward M., 596

Joynt, Carol, 647

Joy of Cooking
, 306

Kalb, Bernard, 327, 467, 469, 652–53

Kalb, Marvin, 351, 362, 395, 509, 615

Kalischer, Peter, 346, 347, 351, 374, 384

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 135

Kansas City
Atchison Daily Globe
, 147, 151–52

Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, 60

Kansas City Club, 146

Kansas City College of Pharmacy, 46

Kansas City Dental College, 14

Kansas City Journal
, 19

Kansas City Journal-Post
, 51, 54, 55–56, 69, 70–71, 76, 146, 500

Kansas City, Missouri, 17–21, 45–46, 49–50, 53, 54, 61, 140, 145

Kansas City Star
, 19, 20, 31, 45, 55, 330

Kaplan, Martin, 577

Kaplan, Peter, 568, 575, 576

Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, 37

Karnow, Stanley, 467

Kartes, Jime, 468

Kaye, Danny, 357

KCBS-Austin, TX, 325

KCET-TV, Los Angeles, CA, 463, 554

KCMO radio, Kansas City, MO, 45, 46–52

Keel, Beverly, 647

Kefauver, Estes, 157, 186

Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, 134

Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO, 516

Kendrick, Alexander, 154, 194, 326, 351

Kennan, George, 354

Kennedy, Caroline, 214

Kennedy Center Honors, 611, 631, 632

Kennedy, Edward M., 242, 390, 481, 539–40, 542

Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 214, 243, 266

   blood-spattered pink suit, 273

   and husband’s death, 268, 271, 273

   
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, A
(CBS
Eyewitness
), 250

Kennedy, John F., 162, 186, 195, 204, 205, 210–11, 243, 329, 603

   assassination of, 266–84, 303, 596

   and CBS’s
Eyewitness
, 242, 243–45

   Cronkite’s announcement of Kennedy’s death, 275–76, 281

   and Cronkite’s
Presidential Countdown
program, 211, 212–13, 214–16

   and Cuban Missile Crisis, 256

   and first half-hour
CBS Evening News
broadcast, 259–63

   inauguration, 221–22, 223

   Kennedy’s years as Camelot, 243–45

   and live telecasts to Europe, 254

   Moon pledge, 229, 237, 333, 338, 411

   and Murrow, 226, 245

   and news media, 441

   and 1960 elections, 204, 205, 210–11, 220

   and Shepard’s
Freedom 7
mission, 228–29

   in Texas, 264–66

   Vietnam War policy, 259–61

Kennedy, John F., Jr., 579

Kennedy, Robert F., 210, 242, 365, 383, 470

   announces candidacy for president, 391

   assassination of, 397

   California Democratic primary victory, 396–97

   Cronkite’s interview with, 390–91

   and 1968 elections, 389–91

Kennedy Space Center, 413

Kennedy, Vann M., 42, 102

Kennerly, David Hume, 492, 493, 540, 541–42

Kent State: What Happened and Why
(Michener), 435

Kent State University massacre, 434–35

Kerry, John, 638, 640, 641, 642

Keteyian, Armen, 664

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 534

KHOU-TV, Houston, TX, 205, 425

Khrushchev, Nikita, 256

Kilduff, Malcolm “Mac,” 278

Kilgallen, Dorothy, 186

Killian, Jerry B., 640

King, Coretta Scott, 435, 443, 571

King Features Syndicate, Cronkite’s column for, 637–39

King, Larry, 534, 611, 665–66

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 258, 295, 296, 298, 303, 328–29, 331, 394, 406, 484

   assassination of, 395–96

King, Michael and Roger, 603

King, Rodney, 608

Kintner, Robert, 188, 279, 657

Kissinger, Henry, 465, 467–68, 470, 472–73, 481, 494, 564

Kitchell, James, 235

Klauber, Edward, 47

Klein, Herb, 448

Klein, Joe, 598

Klein, Robert, 489

Kleinerman, Isaac, 194

KMBC radio, Kansas City, MO, 146, 147–49, 151–52

Knight, Ted, 498

Knowland, William, 188

KNOW radio, Austin, TX, 40–41

Koerper, Karl, 146

Kondracke, Morton, 539

KOOL-TV, Phoenix, AZ, 304

Koop, Ted, 153

Koppel, Ted, 614, 615–16, 637

Korean War, 151–53, 155, 325, 416

KPHO radio, Phoenix, AZ, 583

Kraft, Gene, 236

Kraft, Joseph, 467

Kranz, Gene, 227–28

Krim, Arthur, 491

KRLD-TV, Dallas, TX, 266, 269, 271, 273, 275

KTBC radio, Austin, TX, 40, 285–86

KTSM radio, El Paso, TX, 58

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 24

Kuralt, Charles, 250, 332, 362–64, 396, 407, 419, 484, 509

   and
Apollo 11
twentieth-anniversary special, 597

   as candidate for CBS’s news anchor, 249

   and environmental issues, 430–31

   and microphone trophy gift to Cronkite, 542–43

   “On the Road” segments, 363–64, 566

   as possible successor to Rather, 566

   and voice imitation of Murrow, 147

Kurtz, Howard, 666

Kuwait, 605

KWKC radio, Kansas City, MO, 45–46

Ky, Nguyen Cao, 344–45

Lack, Andrew, 551

Laird, Melvin, 449

Lamb, Brian, 381, 506

Lamoreaux, Bud, 568

Lane, John, 466, 474, 529

Lange, Dorothea, 193

Langhorne, Harry, 494, 495

Lansbury, Angela, 656–57

Lapham, Lewis H., 231

Larry King Live
(CNN), 613

La Sapienza University, Rome, 633, 634

Lasky, Victor, 464

Lassie
(CBS TV), 184, 306, 513

Late Night with David Letterman
(CBS TV), 635

Laurence, John “Jack,” 361, 362, 374–75, 384, 400–401, 441

Laurent, Lawrence, 424

Leavenworth, Kansas, 13, 14–15

Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, 14

Lee, Canada, 174

“Legacy of Harry S. Truman, The” (CBS News), 574

Legacy of War
(PBS), 654–55

Lehman, John, 578, 631

Lehrer, Jim, 625

Leibner, Richard, 532

Leiser, Ernest, 170–71, 319, 326–27, 328, 356, 434, 484, 499, 535

   death of, 661

   and Vietnam War, 366, 370, 371, 373, 375, 376, 381, 492

Lelyveld, Joseph, 431

Leno, Jay and Mavis, 592

Leonard, Bill, 298, 356, 450, 466, 509

   and Cronkite’s retirement announcement, 537

   and 1964 political conventions, 308, 311, 312, 315, 316–17, 318, 319, 321

   as president of CBS News, 531, 532–33

   Sauter as replacement for, 565

Leopold and Loeb murder case, 1924, 32

Lerner, Max, 55

LeSueur, Larry, 74, 105

Letterman, David, 635

Lewinsky, Monica, 625

Lewis, John L., 298

Leyshon, Hal, 95, 110–11

liberalism, Cronkite’s defense of, 600–602, 622–23, 637

Liberty Bell 7
space flight, 229–30

Liberty
magazine, 20

Library of America,
Best Journalism of the Vietnam War
, 377–78

Lieberman, Joe, 638

Life
magazine, 11, 131, 282, 291, 591

Limbaugh, Rush, 637

Lincoln, Abraham, 303

Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, 662–65, 667

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