Cronkite (114 page)

Lindbergh, Charles, 233

Lindley, Ernest K., 155

Lippmann, Walter, 37, 232, 303

Lochner, Louis, 131

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 205, 212, 220, 262

Loews Corporation, 585

Logan, Walter, 82, 83

logos, television, 200

Long Island Sound, 245, 306

Long Journey Home from the Moon, The
(Aldrin), 424

Look
magazine, 108, 278

Lorraine Hotel, Memphis, TN, 395

Los Angeles
Daily News
, 619

Los Angeles Free Press
, 497

Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, 205, 206

Los Angeles Times
, 236, 616, 657–58

Love Field, Dallas, TX, 266, 276

Lovell, James A., 409, 428–29, 436

Love, Sam, 434

loyalty oaths, 196

Lubell, Samuel, 184

Lucas, George, 590

Luce, Henry R., 310

Lucy Show, The
(CBS TV), 252, 291

Lumet, Sidney, 174, 520, 521, 601

Lusitania
, RMS, 15

Luxembourg, 122–23, 129, 131

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 286, 411, 589, 590, 591

Lyons, Leonard, 140

MacArthur, Douglas, 163–64, 370, 581

MacArthur, Jean, 593

MacDonald, James, 90–91, 94

MacLeish, Archibald, 78, 423

MacNeil, Robert, 267

MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, The
(PBS), 614, 646, 658

Maddow, Rachel, 660

Maddox, Lester, 298

Madigan, John, 167

Madison Square Garden, New York City, 190, 195

Magruder, Jeb, 448, 464, 465

Maher, Bill, 639

Mailer, Norman, 410, 417

“Making of a Stalemate, The” (Apple), 378–79

Making of the President 1964, The
(T. White), 203, 257, 310

Malcolm X, 407

Manchester Guardian, The
, 234

Mandela, Nelson, 604

Man in Orbit
(CBS News), 235

Mankiewicz, Frank, 389, 390, 472

Manning, Gordon, 336, 342–43, 362, 450, 461, 462, 463, 466, 470, 475, 476, 487–88, 651

Manning, Paul, 95

Manning, Robert, 375, 392

Manoff, Arnold, 175

“Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of
Apollo 11
” (CBS News), 419, 423

Manson murders, 410

Mao Tse Tung, 467, 469

Mapes, Mary, 642, 643

March of Folly: From Tokyo to Vietnam, The
(Tuchman), 380

March of Time, The
(radio news), 30

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 258–59

Marcuse, Herbert, 394

Marsalis, Wynton, 665

Marshall, E. G., 174

Marshall, George, 139

Marshall Plan, 138

Martha’s Vineyard, 243, 470, 491, 500–501, 508, 524, 578, 579, 582, 593, 625, 626, 629–30, 649

Martha’s Vineyard Eco-Action and Catastrophe Committee, 438

Martin, Bill, 336

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 332

Martin, Richard, 321

Marx, Louis, 461

Marx, Patricia, 461

Mary Tyler Moore Show
(CBS TV), 532

   Cronkite on, 498–99, 658

Masefield, John, 662

Mason, Linda Ann, 474, 476, 477, 499–500, 552–53, 663

Masterpieces of War Reporting
(Snyder), 100

Maxwell, Arthur and Eva, 145

Mazo, Earl, 464

McAndrew, William, 257

McAuliffe, Anthony Clement, 118

McAuliffe, Christa, 590, 591

McCain, John, 493, 577

McCarthy, Eugene, 220, 356–57, 365, 383, 389, 391, 393, 396

McCarthy, Joseph, 60, 147, 157, 176, 178, 209, 219, 247, 304, 335, 383

McCarthyism, 174–75, 196, 449

McGee, Frank, 273, 275, 334, 358, 379

McGee, Gale, 341

McGliney, Jim, 106, 110

McGovern, George, 341, 471, 472, 478, 481, 601

McKay, Jim, 201

McLuhan, Marshall, 280, 530

McMullen, Jay, 231

McMurtry, Larry, 537

McNamara, Robert, 278, 300, 342, 347, 351

McNeil, Lori, 595

Media Man
(Auletta), 585

Media Report
, 506

Meet the Press
(NBC News), 180, 217

Memogate, 641–43

Memphis Belle
(B-17), 96

Miami University of Ohio, 296

Michel, Don, 165

Michener, James, 243, 435, 453, 469, 526–27, 590

Michener, Mari, 453

Mickelson, Sig, 306, 415, 520

   with CBS Television news, 149, 159, 176

   death of, 651

   and
Face the Nation
show, 179–80

   and Kennedy inauguration, 222, 223

   and 1952 elections, 158, 159–61, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 168, 169

   and 1956 elections, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186

   and 1960 elections, 206, 219

   and 1960 Summer Olympics, 202

   and 1964 elections, 311

   Paley’s firing of, 210, 247–48

   Salant as replacement for, 248

   and space coverage, 223, 224, 226

Middle East, 527–29, 530, 560–65, 604–7

Middle Tennessee State University, 647

Middleton, Drew, 75, 131

Middleton, Harry, 286, 491

Midgley, Les, 356, 357, 364, 474, 499, 509, 512, 516, 661

   CBS News producer, 242, 282, 289–90, 300, 307, 321

   and the Kennedys, 242, 243–44

   and Vietnam War, 362, 363

Midway, Battle of, 81

migrant workers, in the U.S., 208, 217, 219

Mike Douglas Show, The
, 495

Mike Wallace Interview, The
(CBS News), 249

Mills Brothers, 92

Minneapolis Journal
, 61

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

   
Apollo
s
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