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Don Hewitt Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Don Hewitt. Best known as the creator of the "60 Minutes" television series, Mr. Hewitt produced and directed the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. In 1963, he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and was one of the producers coordinating CBS coverage of the assassination.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 9, 2002 by Jeff West and Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long.
Don Hewitt Oral History
11/09/2002
Hi-8 videotape
55 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2002.001.0038
Mr. Hewitt passed away on August 19, 2009, just over a month after his friend and CBS colleague Walter Cronkite passed away on July 17, 2009.Mr. Hewitt's autobiography, Tell Me A Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television, was published in 2001. He read excerpts from the book during this oral history interview. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Don Hewitt Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Don Hewitt. Best known as the creator of the "60 Minutes" television series, Mr. Hewitt produced and directed the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. In 1963, he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and was one of the producers coordinating CBS coverage of the assassination.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 9, 2002 by Jeff West and Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long.
Don Hewitt Oral History
11/09/2002
Debates
1960 presidential election
Presidential campaign
Oral histories
Cronkite, Walter
Hewitt, Don
60 Minutes
CBS News
Dallas
Kennedy Family Acquaintances (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Hi-8 videotape
55 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2002.001.0038
Mr. Hewitt passed away on August 19, 2009, just over a month after his friend and CBS colleague Walter Cronkite passed away on July 17, 2009.Mr. Hewitt's autobiography, Tell Me A Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television, was published in 2001. He read excerpts from the book during this oral history interview. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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