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CRONKITE.
Copyright © 2012 by Douglas Brinkley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Brinkley, Douglas

  Cronkite / by Douglas Brinkley.—1st ed.

    p.  cm

  Includes bibliographical references.

  ISBN 978-0-06-137426-5

  1. Cronkite, Walter. 2. Television journalists—United States—Biography. 3. Biography and autobiography—Editors, journalists, and publishers. I. Title.

  PN4874.C84B75  2012

  070.4092B—dc23 2011051467

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*
Eyewitness
originally aired in 1959 as
Eyewitness to History
, with Charles Kuralt serving as host. Walter Cronkite took over the show in 1961, when the program’s name was shortened to
Eyewitness
, and hosted it until 1962. Charles Collingwood acted as the show’s emcee from 1962 until the end of its run in 1963.

*
The
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
was telecast at 6:30 p.m. (EST) from 1962 to 1981, though some affiliates elected to carry the broadcast at a later time (such as WCBS-TV in New York), until that practice was outlawed in the 1970s.

*
In the coming years at least four other CBS correspondents distinguished themselves with edgy Vietnam reports: Ed Bradley, Bob Simon, Richard Threlkeld, and Bruce Dunning.