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CBS Reports
, 230, 231, 232, 237, 343, 449–51, 570–72, 577–78

   “Children of Apartheid” documentary, 559

   coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 171, 225

   Cronkite as CBS News special correspondent, 547–48, 554, 578, 586–87, 594

   Cronkite in Cairo, 560–65

   Cronkite-Mubarak interview, 562–63

   Cronkite on USIA blacklist, 571–72, 620

   Cronkite’s
CBS News Special Reports
, 258, 283–84, 287, 296

   Cronkite’s retirement contract, 547–48, 567–68, 586–87, 594

   Cronkite’s return to Vietnam, 577

   Cronkite-Wussler collaboration, 224–25

   and end of Cronkite age, 568

   
Eyewitness
program, 179, 226, 228, 242, 243–45, 250, 253, 261, 262

   Kennedy inauguration, 221–22

   1950 elections, 154, 155

   1952 Election Night coverage, 166–70

   1952 political conventions, 159–66

   1953 Yucca Flats, Nevada blast, 175, 176

   1956 Election Night coverage, 188–89

   1956 political conventions, 183–85, 186, 187

   1957
Playhouse 90
promotion, 190–91

   1960 Election Night coverage, 220

   1960 Olympic Games, 201–3

   1960 political conventions, 203–6, 208–11

   1960
Presidential Countdown
program, 211–16

   1962 America’s Cup race, 243–45, 250, 253

   and Rather on
CBS Evening News
, 550, 553, 565, 566

   and Reagan assassination attempt, 552

   and Sadat assassination, 560–65

   salaries, 166, 199, 547–48, 554

   space race correspondent, 191–93, 194–97, 224, 226–30, 232–37

   and
The Twentieth Century
broadcasts, 179, 190, 191–94, 195, 196, 199, 200–201, 319, 320, 344, 350

   
Universe
science magazine, 548, 554–58, 567, 568

   “Walter Lippmann, Year End” interview, 232

   and
You Are There
broadcasts, 173–75, 176, 178, 179, 189, 191, 192, 196, 199, 333, 385, 482

CBS News Extra
, 235

CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report
, 282–83, 356

CBS News Moscow bureau, 551

CBS News Saigon bureau, 367

CBS News southern bureau, Atlanta, GA, 330

CBS News Special Report

   on African Americans’ freedom struggle, 258, 296

   on Agnew’s resignation, 493

   
American Assassins
,
The
, 283–84

   “Hour with Ed Murrow, An,” 335

   “Battle of Ia Drang Valley,” 348–49

   “Cape Kennedy Disaster,” 337

   “Correspondents Report, The,” 442

   Cronkite’s final, 628–29

   “D-Day Plus Twenty Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy,” 114, 288, 298–99

   “Earth Day: A Question of Survival,” 432–33

   on end of the cold war, 592

   on end of Vietnam War, 512

   on environmental issues, 430

   during Ford’s presidency, 511

   on Moratorium Day protests, 443

   “109 Days to Venus,” 287

   “Report from Vietnam: Who, What, When, Where, and Why?,” 369, 371, 374, 375, 376–86, 392, 393, 394–95, 513, 569, 570

   “Showdown in Iran,” 534

   “The Summer Ahead,” 296

   “T Minus 4 Years, 4 Months, 30 Days, and Counting,” 332–33   

   
To the Moon
, 337–38

   “Vietnam Perspective,” 351–52, 354

CBS News Sunday Magazine
, 363

CBS News Washington, D.C., bureau, 189, 255, 265, 294, 304, 325, 471, 476, 484, 485, 525

CBS Radio News, 40, 41, 47, 48–49, 64, 71, 73, 96, 185, 234, 247

   Battle of Britain coverage on, 73–75

   vs. CBS TV, 172

   Cronkite and Clinton impeachment verdict on, 629

   Cronkite as correspondent for KMBC, 146, 147–49, 151–52

   Cronkite-Carter call-in program, 525–26

   Cronkite-Glenn interview on, 627–28

   Cronkite’s “The American Challenge” reports, 501

   Cronkite’s “Answer, Please!” show, 199

   Cronkite’s reports for, 58, 101, 104, 108

   Cronkite’s voice on, 147

   and Kennedy assassination, 273

   KTBC radio, Austin, TX, 40, 285–86

   Lowell Thomas with, 30

   Murrow as war correspondent for, 74–76, 78, 101, 120, 124, 127, 130

   Murrow’s job offers to Cronkite, 105–8, 151, 152

   Murrow with, 47–48, 60–61, 64, 73, 154, 165, 291

   and 1964 elections, 309

   Nixon and Cronkite’s commentaries for, 446–47

   Nuremberg trials coverage, 131

   “Postcripts to the 20th Century,” 629

   television and, 115–16, 181

   WCBS-AM radio, New York, 331, 362, 512

CBS Reports
, 293, 308

   “Abortion and the Law,” 343

   “Biography of a Bookie Joint,” 231

   “Can We Get Out?,” 300

   Cronkite and, 230, 231, 232, 237, 343, 449–51

   “D-Day Plus Twenty Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy,” 298–99

   Eisenhower interview on, 230

   on environmental issues, 429–30

   “Harvest of Shame,” 208, 217, 219, 335

   “Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam,” 577

   Lippmann interview on, 232

   “1984 Revisited,” 570–72

   “Selling of the Pentagon, The,” 449–51, 460–61

   on space exploration, 237

   “Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, The,” 569–70

   
Who Speaks for Birmingham?
, 245–46

CBS
Special Reports
bulletins, 336, 337

CBS Sports, 223, 565

CBS Television

   Nielsen ratings and, 288–89

   president of, 172, 188, 210, 211, 289

CBS Television News, 149–51

   Cronkite’s first TV newscast, 152–53

   first director of, 149

CBS This Morning
, 666

CBS TV

   Cronkite and
The Morning Show
, 178–79, 180, 196

   Cronkite on
Letterman
, 635

   Cronkite on
Mary Tyler Moore Show
, 498–99

   Cronkite on
Murphy Brown
, 613

   Cronkite’s announcement of Kennedy’s death, 275–76, 281

   Cronkite’s Kennedy assassination coverage, 268–84

   experimental TV broadcasts, 115

   first president of, 158, 159–60

   first televised political conventions (1948), 141, 159

   
See It Now
program, 156–57, 177, 178, 218, 291, 293, 335

   
Suspense
drama, 171

   WCBS-TV, New York, 500, 515, 616

CBS TV network division, 189

CBS TV stations division, 189

CBS World News Roundup
, 64

Cedar Rapids
Gazette
, 148

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 401, 502

   and Cronkite-CIA rumor, 519

   Pike Committee report on, 508

   and Vietnam War, 349

Chaffee, Roger B., 336

Challenger
space shuttle disaster, 590, 591, 603, 626

Chamber of Commerce, St. Joseph, MO, 442–43

Chancellor, John, 188, 219, 328, 384, 465, 480, 498, 523, 567, 575, 661

Chaney, James, 297, 301

channel surfing, 252

Channing, Carol, 611

Chaplin, Charlie, 579

Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, 410

Charlemane (puppet), 178–79

Charles, Ray, 652

Charles Street Club, London, 124

Charlie’s Angels
(ABC TV), 517

Chauncey, Tom, 583, 584

Chauncey, Tom, II, 583

Chayefsky, Paddy, 520, 521

Cheney, Dick, 342, 636

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, 258

Chesterfield Club, Kansas City, MO, 50

Chevron Oil Company, 437

Chicago antiwar demonstrators/protests, 400–401, 402–6

Chicago Daily News
, 32, 334

“Chicago Eight,” 406

Chicago Police Department, 400, 404, 405–6

Chicago Sun
, 249

Chicago Tribune
, 53

Chicago World’s Fair, 1933, 35–36, 38

“Children of Apartheid” (CBS News), 559

children’s shows

   
Captain Kangaroo
(CBS TV), 179, 330, 482

   CBS Saturday morning, 458

China (
see
People’s Republic of China)

China Syndrome, The
(movie), 533–34

Chi Phi fraternity (UT), 36, 37, 43–44

Christian Coalition, 623, 630–31, 636

Christian, George, 379, 380, 383–84, 395

Christian Science Monitor, The
, 228

Chung, Connie, 485, 487, 509, 548, 550, 565, 647

Church, Frank, 517

Churchill, Sir Winston, 83, 89, 90, 147, 191

Church, Wells, 151

Civil Rights Act of 1964, 294–95, 296

civil rights movement, 177, 245–46, 257, 258, 262, 294–98, 301, 328–32, 395–96

Clark, Blair, 246, 307, 356–57, 365

Clark, Bob, 267

Clarke, Arthur C., 193, 224, 415–16, 418, 421, 426

Clark, James G., Jr., 328

Clark, Wesley, 638

Clay, Cassius (Muhammad Ali), 202–3

Clearing the Air
(Schorr), 519

Cleveland, Grover, 581

Clifford, Clark, 462, 574

Clinton, Bill, 496

   Cronkite and, 620, 625–26

   on
The Cronkite Report
, 619

   and Cronkite’s death, 665

   impeachment proceedings against, 625, 629

   and 1992 elections, 610, 611

   and 1996 elections, 621

   presidency of, 614, 624–25

Clinton, Chelsea, 626

Clinton, Hillary, 620, 623, 625–26, 644

Clooney, George, 516, 649, 653, 654, 659

Clooney, Nick, 516, 653

Clooney, Nina, 653

Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology, The
(Commoner), 432–33, 438

cloture vote, 295

Cloud, Stanley, 107

CNN (Cable News Network), 490, 508–9, 534, 558, 567, 621, 639

   
American Morning
, 642

   Cronkite and Glenn’s second space mission, 627, 628

   Cronkite’s D-day (Plus
50
) coverage for, 620

   and Cronkite’s death, 659

   and Dukakis death penalty question, 600

   Gulf War coverage, 604–5, 607

   
Larry King Live
, 613, 665–66

   and 9/11 terrorists attacks, 633–34, 635, 636

   and Northridge earthquake, 612–13

   Turner and, 584, 585, 586

Coca-Cola Corporation, 13, 584

Cochran, Ron, 273, 275

Cocoa Beach, Florida, 408, 414, 429

Cohen, Adam, 405

Colbert Report, The
(Comedy Central), 666

Colbert, Stephen, 666

cold war, 151, 193, 196, 197, 235, 349, 591–92

Colgate Comedy Hour, The
(NBC TV), 498

Collier’s Weekly
, 326

Collingwood, Charles

   as candidate for CBS’s news anchor, 247

   and Kennedy assassination, 278

   as one of the Murrow Boys, 105, 124, 130, 141, 178, 209

   and 1952 elections, 167, 168, 169

   retirement from CBS News, 531

   
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
,
A
, 250

   
Vietnam: The Deadly Decision
, 300

   ”Vietnam: The Hawks and the Doves,” 341

   in Vietnam, 352, 408

   on
What’s My Line?
, 186

Collins, Michael, 412, 419–22, 425, 603

Collins, Reid, 514

color television, 323, 352, 353

Colson, Charles, 445, 446, 447, 459, 465, 466, 477, 478, 479, 480

Columbia
(
Apollo 11
spaceship), 412

Columbia Journalism Review
, 283

Columbia Missourian
, 55

Columbia University, 355

   Graduate School of Journalism, 283, 533

Columbia University Press, 507

comedy shows

   CBS’s, 291, 498–99

   Cronkite on
Mary Tyler Moore Show
, 498–99, 658

   Cronkite on
Murphy Brown
, 613

   NBC’s free-form, 217

Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP), 471, 476

Commoner, Barry, 429, 433, 437

communications satellite, Telstar, 253–54

communism, 148, 196, 449–50, 553, 608

concentration camps, 126, 127, 135, 654

Concord High School, New Hampshire, 590

Confederacy of Dunces, A
(Toole), 363

Congress Hotel, Chicago, IL, 163

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 295, 332, 352

Conlisk, James B., Jr., 406

Connally, John B., 268, 271, 379, 538

Connor, Bull, 294, 328, 406

Conquest
(CBS News), 257

Conrad Hilton, Chicago, IL, 163

Conrad, Pete, 426

conservative movement, 622–23

Considine, Bob and Millie, 453

Consolidated Edison, 437

Continental Hotel, Leavenworth, Kansas, 13

Conversations with Cronkite
(Carleton), 648

Conway, Mike, 150

Cooke, Alistair, 234

Cooley, Denton, 33

Cooper, L. Gordon, 236, 338, 422

Cornell University, 141

“Correspondents Report, The” (CBS News), 442

Cory, Sarah Gross, 30

Cosell, Howard, 487

Cosmoplitan
magazine, 306

counterculture, 401

Courageous
(yacht), 585

Couric, Katie, 637, 638, 647, 652, 660

Cousteau, Jacques, 429, 555

Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA, 310, 311, 312, 313–14, 315

Crane, Philip, 538

Cravat Hotel, Luxembourg City, 122–23, 124

Crisis of Global Capitalism, The
(Soros), 630

Cronkite, Anna (paternal grandmother), 14, 19, 21, 38

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