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Walter Cronkite
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CBS-TV News anchorman Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr., began his life
in Houston, Texas. After graduating from Houston's San Jacinto High
School in 1933, he enrolled in the University of Texas. While there,
he worked on the college newspaper, The Daily Texan, as well as
working for the State Capitol as a copy boy and reporter for various
newspapers at the bureaus. His time at the newspaper let to his
quitting the University of Texas to work full-time as a reporter
at the Houston Post.
Other influences
in Cronkite's journalism career included Texas newspaperman Gordon
Kent Shearer, writer of "Under the Dome"; and Midwestern
radio stations. He covered the European theater for United Press
during World War II, and afterwards he covered the Nuremberg trials.
In 1950 he
joined CBS News, covering national political conventions and elections
between 1952 and 1981. He pioneered the CBS Evening News in 1962
and anchored that program until he retired in 1981. He came to know
Billy Graham through his interviews for the CBS News. Since his
retirement, Cronkite has hosted a number of programs, including
CBS's Universe (1982) and A&E's Dinosaur (1991),
and coproduced PBS's Why in the World.
Source:
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The
Producer
Donna Campbell
is a writer/producer who specializes in documentary projects for
public television. A native of Charlotte NC, she began her work
in print, founding Lake Norman Magazine, a popular regional publication
for the fast-growing North Carolina community, in 1983. When she
sold the magazine to Knight-Ridder Inc in 1986, she continued as
editor and publisher, becoming Knight-Ridder's first woman in that
role. In 1990, she worked with her sister Susan to write and produce
a television program about domestic violence. Any Day Now
featured personal stories from sixteen woman across North Carolina
and was broadcast nationally to much acclaim. Inspired by the power
of personal documentary, Donna has continued to work in television.
Recent projects include George Beverly Shea: The Wonder of It
All and Hard Rain: Lessons Learned from the Flood of '99,-both
nominated for Regional Emmy Awards. She also produced Something
In Common, a documentary on diversity in North Carolina schools
which premiered in April 2001. She has also produced Higher
Ground, a follow-up on the victims of Hurricane Floyd, and Faces From the Flood, depicting some of Hurricane Floyd's heroes.
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