American Foreign Correspondents Association, 113
American Heritage magazine, 174, 338, 395
American Morning (CNN), 642
American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA), 71
American Pharaoh (Cohen and Taylor), 405
American Rifleman (NRA), 154
American Society of Newspaper Editors, 599
Americans with Disabilities Act, 604
American University, 465
America’s Cup race, 1962, 243–45, 250, 253, 261, 594
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman), 557
anchormen
“anchorman” term, 115, 141, 142, 161, 543
Cronkite as anchorman for CBS Evening News, 249–63
Cronkite’s concept of, 203
using two, 185–86
Ancon, U.S.S., 112
Andelman, David, 604
Anderson, Doug, 583
Anderson, John, 538–39
Anders, William A., 409, 427
Andrew Sisters, 35, 109
Andy Griffith Show, The (CBS TV), 252
Animal Planet, 556
Anna, Illinois, 37, 43, 165
Anschluss report, Murrow’s, 48
“Answer, Please!” (CBS Radio), 199
anti-Cronkite website, 623
apartheid system, in South Africa, 559
Apollo missions, 233, 337–38, 407
Apollo 1 tragedy, 336–37
Apollo 4, 338–39
Apollo 7, 408, 409
Apollo 8, 409, 427, 430
Apollo 9, 409
Apollo 10, 416
Apollo 11, 336, 409, 410, 411, 412–26, 597, 603
Apollo 12, 426, 444
Apollo 13, 428–29, 436
Apollos 14 through 20, 429
Apple Computer, 553
Apple, R. W., 350, 367, 379, 474, 574
Arbitron, 288, 321, 358
Archive of American Television, 28, 263, 276
Arizona Republic, 583
Arizona State University, 484
Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at, 583–84, 648
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, 484
Arkansas, U.S.S., 79–80
Arledge, Roone, 523, 529, 532, 554, 567
Arlen, Michael J., 379
Arlington National Cemetery, 279, 280–81
Armstrong, Neil, 197, 412, 416–17, 419–22, 424, 425–26, 603, 666–67
Army Air Corps, U.S., 71–72, 89
Army, U.S.
Army Pictorial Service, 92
and Cronkite’s Vietnam tour, 346
Military Review, 513
Rangers Second Division, 572
satellite launch, 197
Arnett, Peter, 605, 606
Arno, Ed, 489
Around America: A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline (Cronkite), 636–37
Around the World in Eighty Days (film), 190
Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, 45
Ascension Island, 241
Ashford, Mike, 527, 581, 609, 653, 662
Asimov, Isaac, 193, 224, 416
As It Happened (Paley), 321–22
Asman, Bob, 194
Asner, Ed, 498, 532
Associated Press (AP), 30, 41, 42, 75, 300
and Kennedy assassination, 267
and Kennedy’s Vietnam policy, 259
and LBJ’s death, 489, 490
and Nuremberg trials, 131
Tet Offensive dispatches, 366–67
vs. UP, 53, 54, 55, 63
during World War II, 82, 94, 96, 119, 129
Associated Press Managing Editors Convention, 349–50
As the World Turns (CBS TV), 252, 270, 357
“At Home With . . . Mrs. Walter Cronkite” (New York Post), 306
Atkinson, Brooks, 321
Atkinson, Jayne, 657
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 329, 537
Atlantic Monthly, The, 375, 392
atomic bomb, 130–31, 175, 176
AT&T, 267, 269, 526
Atwater, Lee, 599
Aubrey, James Thomas, Jr., 289, 291
Audubon, John James, 24
Auletta, Ken, 585
Ault, Philip, 82
Auschwitz, 126
automobile racing, 16, 180–81, 243
Autry, Gene, 583
aviation, military
Allied air war against Germany, 89–91, 93–95, 97–98, 108–9, 112
Cronkite as aviation buff, 72, 192, 195
Cronkite on German bombing raids, 95, 97–98, 109, 112
Cronkite on 101st Airborne glider, 117–19
Cronkite’s first flight, 11–12
during Vietnam War, 344
during World War II, 71–72
Aykroyd, Dan, 526
Baby Boomers, 145–46, 401
Bailey, Harry, 49–50
Baillie, Hugh, 87, 99–100, 103, 106, 107, 115
Baird, Bil, 178
Baker, Howard, 538
Baldwin, Bill, 57
Baldwin, Hanson, 194
Balfour class rings, 33, 34
Ball, George, 535
Ball, Lucille, 200, 306, 317, 357
Baltimore Sun, 169
Bancroft, Griffin, 154
Banow, Joel, 418
Barber, James David, 536
Barhydt, Frank, 70
Barker, Eddie, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277
Barnes, Ben, 578
Barnes, Clive, 382
Barnes, Kay, 136
Bass, Jack, 328
Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (ad agency), 318
“Battle of Ia Drang Valley” (CBS News), 348–49
Baxter, Charles, 279
Bean, Al, 426
Beatles, the, 290, 291
Beattie, Ed, 87, 88
Beatty, Morgan, 175
Beatty, Warren, 472
Before the Colors Fade (Reasoner), 194
Before the Storm (Perlstein), 305
Begin, Menachem, 528–29, 530, 560
Belgium, 120, 122, 124, 129
Bell, Jack, 267, 269
Benchley, Peter, 317, 318
Benedict, Howard, 425
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 54
Benjamin, Burton “Bud”
during Carter’s presidency, 525, 527–28, 529
CBS News producer, 191, 192, 193–94, 199, 201, 343, 484, 499, 553, 570, 578
and Cronkite-LBJ interview special, 490, 491
and Cronkite’s Universe program, 548, 555
death of, 600, 661
Benny, Jack, 200, 317
Bensley, Russ, 347, 353, 356, 381–82, 401, 466, 474, 484
Benton, Nelson, 265, 276, 277, 361, 484
Benton, Thomas Hart, 45, 579
Berchtesgaden, Germany, 305–6, 307
Bergman, Jules, 234, 333, 335, 423
Berg, Patty, 156
Berlin Airlift, 139
Berlin, Irving, 593
Bernstein, Carl, 471, 474, 475, 476, 503
Bernstein, Walter, 175
Best News Stories of 1924, 32
Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, 306
Beverly Hillbillies, The (CBS TV), 256
Beyond the Moon (documentary), 630
“Bicentennial Minutes” (CBS News), 514
bicentennial, U.S., 514–15
Bigart, Homer, 95, 97, 99, 100, 343
Billboard magazine, 115
“Biography of a Bookie Joint” (CBS Reports), 231
Birds o
f America (Audubon), 24
Birnbaum, Bernard, 283
Birney, Fred, 29, 30, 32, 36, 102
Bivens, Carl, 62
blacklisted writers, 175, 178, 199, 571–72, 620
Black Panther Party, 399, 454–55
Black Power movement, 307
Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IL, 163
Blake, William, 224
Bleckman, Izzy, 468, 469, 555–56, 559
Bliss, Edward, Jr., 120, 264, 265, 268, 272, 279, 442, 465, 651
Blitzer, Wolf, 620
Block, Merv, 252
blogs, anti-Cronkite website, 623
Bluff, Peter, 607
Bohemian Grove, California, 608, 628
Bolivar Peninsula, 24
Bond, Julian, 329
Boner, C. Paul, 36
Bonn, Ron, 253, 258, 332, 343, 345–46, 402, 430–31, 432, 434, 474, 475, 510, 521
Booknotes (C-SPAN), 381
Borman, Frank, 338, 409
Born Again (Ellsberg), 459
Boston Globe, 470
Boston Pops, 190
Boston Post, 169
Bourgholtzer, Frank, 157
Boyer, Peter J., 596
Boy Scouts of America, 25
Braden, Tom, 502
Bradlee, Ben, 251, 475, 478, 479, 508, 571
Bradley, Ed, 331–32, 426, 511–12, 513–14, 554, 582, 651–52, 656
Bradley, Omar, 122–23, 124
Brand, Stewart, 428
Braniff Airlines, 59–60, 61, 89
Brauer, Alex, 344
Brave New World (Huxley), 416, 521
Braver, Rita, 525
Breckenridge, Mary Marvin, 105
Bridge Too Far, A (Ryan), 117–18
Bright Shining Lie, A (Sheehan), 381
Brinkley, David, 431, 575
with ABC News, 567
after World War II, 130
and AFTRA strike, 357, 358
on celebrity newscasters, 360
comparison to Cronkite, 251
death of, 661
memoir, 292
at 1964 GOP Convention, 314
and Nixon, 445, 448, 454
pairing with Huntley, 182, 207
retirement from NBC, 460, 567
welcome to news anchor Cronkite, 251
See also Huntley-Brinkley Report
Brisbane, Arthur, 37
Britain, Battle of, 73–75
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 74, 91, 171, 254, 578
British Second Army, 121
Broadcaster of the Year Award, 455–56
broadcasting career, Cronkite’s, 47
awards and honors, 436, 438, 454, 455, 458, 503, 532, 543, 548, 559, 583–84, 648
broadcastography, 171
firing from KCMO for ethical behavior, 52
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
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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
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