Minneapolis Star, The, 330
Minor, Dale, 557, 571, 637, 638
Minow, Newton N., 229, 265
missile defense, 197–98
Mississippi, murder of civil rights workers in, 296–97, 298, 301
“Missouri Method” of journalism, 55
Missouri School of Journalism, 55
Mitchell, Billy, 71
Mitchell, John, 471
Mondale, Walter, 573, 576, 577
Monrobot (computer), 167
Monroe, Bill, 618
Monroe, Marilyn, 513
Montgomery, Bernard Law, 119, 120, 123, 124
Moon race, 332–33, 336, 337–38, 407, 408–26
Moonves, Les, 641, 642–43, 662–63, 664
Moore, Michael, 639
Moratorium Day, 443
Morgan, Edward P., 171, 320
Morning Show, The (CBS TV), 178–79, 180, 181, 196
Morris, Joe Alex, 87, 88
Morton, Bruce, 509, 576
Mosbacher, Bus, 244
“Most Trusted Man in America,” 481, 497, 582–83, 657
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, MO, 659
Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 48
Moyers, Bill, 348, 352, 576, 615
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 539
Mrs. Miniver (film), 96
MSNBC, 616, 621, 660
Mubarak, Hosni, 562–63
Mudd, Roger, 189–90, 257, 353, 502, 509, 576
and bicentennial coverage, 514, 515
and civil rights movement, 294–95, 296
and Cronkite, 336, 451
History Channel interview of Cronkite, 646
and Kennedy assassinations, 280, 397
and LBJ’s resignation, 392–93
and 1964 political conventions, 309, 312, 313, 317, 318, 320–21
and 1968 political conventions, 400
and 1976 political conventions, 518
as possible successor to Cronkite, 532, 537
and “The Selling of the Pentagon,” 450, 451
Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, MO, 516
Mundt, Karl E., 188
Munsters, The (CBS TV), 289
Murdoch, Rupert, 516
Murphy, Audie, 228–29
Murphy Brown (CBS TV), 613
Murphy, Mary, 642, 643
Murray, Bill, 526
Murrow Boys, 105, 107, 108, 115, 121, 130, 136, 141, 155, 189, 209, 224, 531
Murrow Boys, The (Cloud and Olson), 107
Murrow, Edward R., 293, 301, 319, 455, 516, 531, 584, 587, 657
and American Foreign Correspondents Association, 113
on bombing raid over Germany, 108–9
cancer surgery, 275
with CBS Radio, 47–48, 60–61, 64, 73, 74–76, 78, 101, 120, 124, 127, 130, 154, 165, 291
on CBS’s 1956 convention coverage, 184–85
and Cronkite at CBS, 166, 172, 175, 176, 176–77, 203, 206–10, 220
death of, 335–36
departure from CBS, 225–26
and Edwards, 245
“Good night and good luck” sign-off, 262, 335–36
“Harvest of Shame” documentary, 208, 217, 219, 336
job offers to Cronkite, 105–8, 151, 152
and Kennedy inauguration, 222
and 1952 Election Night coverage, 167, 168–69, 170
and 1960 political conventions, 206–7, 208–10
Paley and, 207–8, 209, 217–18, 219, 220, 225–26
Peabody Awards to, 108, 149, 208
Person to Person TV series, 189
“Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy,” 176, 178
RTNDA speech, 207–8, 601
See It Now TV program, 157, 177, 178, 291, 293, 335
and Smith, 246
and television, 141, 142, 149, 156–57, 158, 160, 161
“That’s the way it was” sign-off, 120, 262
with U.S. Information Agency, 226, 245
voice imitations of, 146–47
in Washington, D.C., 147
Murrow, Janet, 275
Muse, Vance, Jr., 36–37
Museum of Broadcasting, 587–88
Museum of Television and Radio, 250
music, 592–93, 594, 623–24, 656
Muskie, Ed, 437, 444, 481, 518
Mutschler, Richard, 432, 550
Mutual radio network, 40, 115
Myers, Dee Dee, 626
My War (Rooney), 622
Nader, Ralph, 437, 571
Nagasaki, Japan, 131
Nation, The, 356, 637
National Academy of Arts and Sciences, 436
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 192, 196, 197–98, 224
Ambassador of Exploration Award to Cronkite, 648
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
Challenger disaster, 590, 591, 603, 626
civilian astronauts, 589–90
Cronkite and twentieth anniversary of Apollo 11, 603
Cronkite’s citizen astronaut campaign, 589–91
The Dream Is Alive (IMAX film), 589
and environmental concerns, 428
Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission, 232–36
Glenn’s second space mission, 626–29
Gordon’s Faith 7 mission, 422
Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 space flight, 229–30
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 286, 411, 589, 590, 591
and Moon race, 332–33, 336, 337–38, 407, 408–26
Project Gemini, 332–34, 336, 338
Project Mercury, 224, 227, 232–34, 236–37, 257, 408, 422, 430
Shepard’s Freedom 7 mission, 227–28
and Soviets’ first man in space, 226
space flight participants, 590–91
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 295, 332
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), 229
National Association of Television Program Executives International, 598
National Guard, U.S., 342
National Press Club (NPC), 33, 148, 365, 611
National Public Radio (NPR), 76, 104, 123, 174, 175, 297, 379, 622
National Review, 464, 467, 651
National Sailing Hall of Fame, 653
National Voice of Democracy, 249
Naval Academy, U.S., 227
NBC affiliates, 73, 130, 142
NBC Blue and Red radio networks, 40
NBC News, 157
and Apollo 11, 412–13
boycott of, 359
Brokaw with, 485–86
Camel News Caravan, 150, 175–76, 188
vs. CBS News, 175–76
CBS News first-place ratings over, 364, 465, 480, 533
and CBS’s half-hour news format, 256–57
Cuban Missile Crisis coverage on, 256
first-place ratings over CBS, 210, 216–17, 242, 248, 284, 315
and Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission, 234, 235
and Iranian hostage crisis, 535
and Kennedy inauguration in color, 222, 242
and LBJ’s death, 489
Meet the Press, 180, 217
Mudd with, 576
and 1952 elections, 164, 166
> and 1960 elections, 205–6, 210
and 1964 elections, 307, 325
and 1968 elections, 399, 400
Outlook, 181
and Pentagon Papers, 460
president of, 188, 257, 279, 304
ratings and AFTRA strike, 358
ratings competition between CBS News and, 205–6, 217, 251–52, 256, 265, 289, 295, 315, 321, 364, 465
Reagan assassination attempt on, 552
Swayze with, 55, 150, 156, 176, 187
and Vietnam War, 361, 379
“Vietnam Weekly Review,” 342, 345
Williams with, 616
See also Huntley-Brinkley Report
NBC Nightly News, 465, 480, 641
NBC Radio, 73, 115, 130
NBC TV
Daily Show, The, 499
and Kennedy assassination, 270, 271, 273, 274, 275, 279
and 1949 and 1952 political conventions, 159
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, 217
Saturday Night Live, 217, 526
studios, 253–54, 279
successful television formats, 217
Today show, 178, 179, 217, 495, 516, 523, 572, 623
Tonight Show, The, 179, 180, 217, 495, 499
NBC White Paper program, 216
Neal, Roy, 234, 335
Nelson, Gaylord, 433
Netherlands, 124
Cronkite in the, 125–29
Operation Market Garden in, 117–20, 125
starved and displaced Dutch people, 127, 128
and V-E (“Victory in Europe”), 125–26, 127
Network (film), 520–21, 601
New Left intellectuals, 393
New London, Texas, school explosion, 1937, 56–58, 613
Newman, Edwin, 188
Newman, Paul, 174
Newport, Rhode Island, 243, 244
New Republic, The, 381, 538–39
news commentators, radio, 30, 47
Newsday, 346
News of the Night (CBS News), 171
newspapers
daily newspapers in U.S., 55
as the“fourth estate,” 47
newspaper reporters, 47
press-versus-radio war, 71
UP’s wire service reporters, 53–65
wire services and, 30, 41–43, 54, 71
See also early journalism career, Cronkite’s
News Tonight (ABC News), 641
News Twisters, The (Efron), 464–65
Newsweek, 155, 187, 195, 234, 284, 292, 317, 318, 343, 385–86, 467
Big Three anchormen on cover of, 446
and Carter’s “Dial-a-President” event, 526
Cronkite on cover of, 265, 283
and Cronkite’s Middle East intervention, 529
News with Walter Cronkite, The (CBS News), 171
New York-Cornell Medical Center, 623
New York Daily Mirror, 38
New York Daily News, 146, 149, 323, 574, 617, 647
New Yorker, The (magazine), 132, 379, 448, 489
New York Herald-Tribune, 96, 99, 131, 180, 256, 264, 317–18
New York Journal American, 230
New York magazine, 506, 568, 598
New York Opera, 593
New York Post, 140, 306, 516, 623, 647
New York Times, 77, 137, 146, 148, 163, 325, 357, 652
and G. W. Bush administration, 637, 639
CBS News ads in, 188, 220
on CBS news coverage, 210, 216, 474
on Cronkite 1968 news coverage, 398
on Cronkite and TV journalism, 658
and Cronkite’s impending retirement, 537, 540
on Cronkite’s liberalism, 602
and Cronkite’s Middle East intervention, 529
Cronkite’s Orwell opinion piece in, 571
on Eisenhower-Cronkite interview, 230
and environmental issues, 431, 433
Friendly’s resignation in, 355
on Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission, 233
on Huntley and Brinkley, 185, 187, 360
on Iranian hostage crisis, 539
on Iraq, 604
McCarthy-Cronkite interview in, 391
and Nixon’s trip to China, 467
Pentagon Papers in, 459, 460
and political conventions/elections, 184, 292, 318, 319, 320, 321, 326, 538, 539, 573, 574, 575, 576
on presidents, 201, 299, 539
on Rather and Cronkite, 596
RFK-Cronkite interview in, 391
space coverage, 333–34, 418, 423
on television, 141
and Vietnam War, 342, 367, 378–79, 381, 393
and World War II, 90–91, 94, 96, 97, 102, 119, 131
New York Times Book Review, 622
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 447
New York Times Magazine, 624
New York World-Telegram, 92–93
New York Yacht Club, 244
Nielsen, Arthur Charles, Sr., 288
Nielsen ratings, 280, 288–90, 291, 292, 293, 295, 315, 367, 383, 465, 577
Night Beat (CBS News), 249
Nightline (ABC News), 535, 614, 615–16
1984 (Orwell), 570–71
“1984 Revisited” (CBS Reports), 570–72
Niven, Paul, 222
Nixon in China (opera), 593
Nixon, Pat, 452, 564
Nixon, Richard M., 164, 422, 501, 592, 593
and Cronkite, 440–56, 465, 466
and Cronkite’s Presidential Countdown program, 211–12, 213, 214
Enemies List, 467, 481, 572
and EPA, 431–32, 436
Ford’s pardon of, 503
impeachment of, 502
and the news media, 440–48, 451, 454–55, 457–58, 466
and 1960 elections, 204, 205, 210, 211, 212, 220, 310–11
and 1968 elections, 365, 390–91, 399–400, 409
and 1972 elections, 471, 478
and Pentagon Papers, 459–60
and President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, 435
resignation of, 470–71, 502–3, 505–8
at Sadat’s memorial service, 562, 564
and U.S.-Soviet Wheat Deal, 474
and Vietnam War, 442, 443, 447, 448, 451, 463, 472–73, 513
and Watergate scandal, 470–71, 475–79, 496–97, 501, 502
Nixon, Robert G., 83
Nobel Peace Prize, 296, 346, 560, 608
Norfolk, Virginia, 81, 83, 84
Normandy invasion (D-day), 80, 103, 110–14, 119, 288, 298–99, 572–73, 620
North by Northeast (Cronkite and Ellis), 580
North Carolina Is My Home (Kuralt), 249
North Carolina seashore, 602–3
Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles, CA, 612–13
NOVA (PBS), 555
Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journalism (Bliss), 120, 442
nuclear power, 533
Nuremberg, Germany, 127
Nuremberg trials, 131–36, 654
Obama, Barack, 204, 664, 667
Oberdorfer, Don, 367
O’Brian, Jack, 230
O’Brien, Miles, 628
O’Brien, Tim, 384–85
Ochs, Phil, 435
O’Donnell, Kenneth, 390
Of a Fire on the Moon (Mailer), 417
Office of War Information (OWI), 78
Oganesoff, Igor, 381
O’Hair, Madalyn Murray, 409, 425
Ohio National Guard, 434, 435
oil industry, Texas, 23, 36
o
il spills, 429, 438
Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, 59
Oklahoman, The, 49
Oldfield, Barney, 16, 181
Oliver Quayle and Company, 481, 497
Olsen, Kenneth, 109
Olson, Lynn, 107
Olympics
1960 Summer Games, 202–3
1960 Winter Games, 201–2, 223
1972 Summer Games, 471
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 579
101st Airborne, 118–19
“109 Days to Venus” (CBS News), 287
Ono, Yoko, 593
On the Edge of the Spotlight (K. Cronkite), 401, 559–60
“On the Road” features, Kuralt’s, 363–64
Operation Desert Storm (Iraq), 604–7
Operation Eagle Claw (Iran), 539
Operation Market Garden (WWII), 117–20, 125
Operation Overlord (D-day), 103, 113–14, 119
Operation Rolling Thunder (North Vietnam), 342, 347, 354
Operation Torch (WWII), 81–83, 86
Order of DeMolay, 30
O’Reilly, Bill, 487, 651
O’Reilly, William, Sr., 487
O’Reilly Factor, The (Fox News), 487, 651
Origins of Television News in America, The (Conway), 150
Orr, Kip, 77
Ortiz, Al, 621
Orwell, George, 570–71
Osgood, Charles, 365, 555, 556
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 274, 276–77, 278–80, 282, 284
Outlook (NBC News), 181
Outside Looking In (Willis), 402
Overseas News Agency, 326
Overseas Press Club Award, 346, 559
Oxmoor House, 579–80, 581
Paar, Jack, 179, 180
pacificism, 79, 128, 453
Packer, Sir Frank, 244
painting, 579–80
Paley, William S., 172, 179, 181, 206, 243, 355, 458, 565
and Apollo 11, 413
and civil rights movement, 178, 295
and Cronkite on CBS board of directors, 584
and Cronkite’s commercial appeal, 154
and Cronkite’s Evening News broadcast, 250–51, 251, 254, 256, 258
and Cronkite’s treatment of Goldwater, 305
departure from CBS, 584
and firing of Aubrey, 291
and firing of Mickelson, 210, 247–48
and Friendly’s resignation, 354
honors Cronkite’s career, 587–88
journalistic training, 218–19
and Kennedy assassination, 271, 282
and LBJ’s purchase of KTBC radio, 285–86
memoir, 321
and Murrow, 207–8, 209, 217–18, 219
and Murrow’s departure from CBS, 225–26
and 1952 elections, 162, 169
and 1964 political conventions, 311, 312, 316–17, 318, 319, 320, 321–22
and 1968 political conventions, 399
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