Tell Me a Story
Memoirs
By: Don Hewitt
Date: 2001
Source: Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2001, 104–113.
About the Author: Don Hewitt (1922–) was a correspondent in Europe and the Pacific during World War II. Later, he became night editor of the Associated Press's Memphis bureau. He began his career with CBS News in 1948 as an associate director of Douglas Edwards with the News, then served as producer-director of the show for fourteen years. He later became executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. He created Sixty Minutes in 1968 and was the executive producer until his retirement.
Introduction
In the fall of 1968, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) was at the peak of its reputation for news. A long tradition of journalists such as Edward R....
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