Cronkite (117 page)

Sirhan, Sirhan, 397, 409

Sirius XM Radio, 660

Six Million Dollar Man, The
(ABC TV), 517

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL, 329

60 Minutes
(CBS News), 253, 326, 411, 442, 524, 533, 551, 614, 627, 642, 643, 648, 652, 658, 659

60 Minutes Wednesday
(CBS News), 640, 641, 642

Slate
, 384

Slaughterhouse-Five
(Vonnegut), 417

Small, Collie, 92

Smaller Dragon, The
(Buttinger), 343

Small, William, 254–56, 265, 293, 295, 304, 380, 454, 466, 471, 484, 485, 515, 516, 517, 529, 645

Smith, Al, 25, 26

Smith, Cecil, 236

Smith, Harry, 58, 660, 661

Smith, Howard K.

   with ABC News, 250, 253, 273, 320, 480

   with CBS News, 131, 162, 178, 194, 222, 294, 484

   memoir, 246

   on Mickelson, 248

   and Murrow, 61, 105, 107

   resignation from CBS News, 246–47

   
Who Speaks for Birmingham?
(
CBS Reports
), 245–46

Smith, John, 381

Smith, Merriman, 194

   and Kennedy assassination, 267–68, 269–70, 271, 273

Smith, Stephen, 390

Smothers Brothers, 357

Snow, Richard, 395

Snyder, Louis, 100

Snyder, Tom, 487

soap operas, 252, 270, 271, 354, 359

Socolow, Sandy, 477, 484, 490, 492, 499, 510, 563, 626, 638

   CBS News producer, 307, 324–25, 366, 376, 395, 432, 434

   and
The Cronkite Report
, 619

   and Cronkite’s “chair” and “desk” incidents, 549–50, 567

   and Cronkite’s death, 661

   and Cronkite’s
Evening News
broadcast, 251, 258

   and Kennedy assassination, 273, 281

   Salant’s promotion of, 466, 474

   and space coverage, 226, 228

   and Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 534

   and Walters at 1980 GOP Convention, 541, 542–43

Soldiers of the Press
(radio show), 104

Solidarity movement, 553

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 501

Sorensen, Ted, 215–16, 390

Soros, George, 630, 631

South Africa, apartheid system in, 559

South by Southeast
(Cronkite and Ellis), 580

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 295

Southern Illinois University, 639

Soviet Union, 608–9

   Cronkite in Moscow, 136–40, 551–52

   and Cuban Missile Crisis, 256

   first man in space, 226–27

   and missile defense, 197

   
Sputnik 1
launch, 191–92, 194, 195

   START treaty, 608

   U.S.-Soviet Wheat Deal, 474

space exploration

   and effects on senior citizens, 628

   Glenn’s second space mission, 626–29

   Moon race, 332–33, 336, 337–38, 407, 408–26

   NASA’s Ambassador of Exploration Award to Cronkite, 648

   Project Gemini, 332–34, 336, 338

   Project Mercury, 224, 227, 232–34, 236–37, 257, 408, 422, 430

   space race, 191–93, 194–97, 223–24, 226–30, 232–36

space flight participants (SFPs), 590–91

Space
(Michener), 590

Spaceship Earth
(EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World, Florida), 591

space shuttle, 589–90

   
Challenger
disaster, 590, 591, 603

space walks, 333, 409

Speakes, Larry, 572

Speer, Albert, 134

Spielberg, Steven, 501, 610

Spindletop (oil field), 23, 36

Spock, Benjamin, 435

sports broadcasts

   Cronkite and 1960 Olympic Games, 201–3

   Cronkite’s early, 40–41, 49, 59, 85

   reconstructed games, 49

Sports in America
(Michener), 453

Sputnik 1
launch, 191–92, 194, 195

Sputnik One: The Soviet Space Satellite
(CBS News), 194

Squaw Valley, 1960 Winter Olympics at, 201–2, 223

Stahl, Lesley, 471, 474, 476, 503–4, 509

Stalin, Joseph, 177

Stanford, Mrs. Allie F. B., 331

Stanley, Kim, 174

Stanton, Frank, 491, 657

   on Agnew, 443

   and Cronkite’s early career in TV news, 152, 153, 154, 155, 158

   and demotion of Salant, 292

   and Eichmann trial, 226

   and LBJ, 286–87, 348

   on Murrow’s death, 335

   and Murrow’s departure from CBS, 226

   and political conventions, 311, 316, 399

   as president of CBS, 158, 172, 188, 210, 211, 216, 224, 246, 286

   and “The Selling of the Pentagon” report, 460–61, 462

   and Smith, 246

   and space coverage, 227, 229, 332, 418

   and Watergate scandal, 477

Starr, Kenneth, 625

Stars and Stripes
, 87, 88, 107, 170, 326

Stassen, Harold, 168, 538

State Department, U.S., 346, 401

St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York City, 644, 659, 661

Stein, Gertrude, 38

Steinbeck, John, 346, 579

Steinem, Gloria, 470, 523

Stennis, John, 296

Steve Allen Show, The
(NBC TV), 662

Stevens, George, Jr., 632

Stevenson, Adlai, 163, 165, 167, 177, 183–84, 186, 188, 205, 220

Stewart, Alastair, 592

Still Crazy After All These Years
(album), 513

Stills, Stephen, 594

St. Joseph, Missouri, 11–12, 13, 14, 15–16, 19, 136, 442–43

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, 532

St. Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, MO, 145

Stone, I. F., 446

Story of My Life, The
(Darrow), 12

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), 608

Stringer, Ann, 134

Stringer, Bill, 134

Stringer, Howard, 568, 595

Strudwick, Shepperd, 174

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 295, 332

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 342, 400, 401

Sturrock, Jock, 244

Sullivan, Ed, 181, 290, 306, 360

Sullivan, Frank, 404

Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs, 96, 457–58

“Summer Ahead, The” (CBS News), 296

Sun Broadcast Group, 598

Sunday News Special
(CBS News), 189, 325

Supreme Court, U.S., 177, 455, 631

Surveyor 7
robot, 426

Suspense
(CBS TV), 172

Swayze, John Cameron, 55–56, 150, 156, 176, 186, 187

Swigert, Jack, 428–29, 436

Sylvan Beach, Galveston Bay, 27

Symington, Stuart, 195, 205

Syracuse Herald-Journal
, 575

Syracuse University, 453

tabloid news, 531–32, 615, 665–66

Taft, Robert, 164, 308

Talese, Gay, 325

Tales of the South Pacific
(Michener), 453

Taylor, Arthur, 477

Taylor, Elizabeth (actress), 190

Taylor, Elizabeth (author), 405

Taylor, Maxwell, 351

telegenic appeal, 141, 151, 153

telegraph system, 23, 65

TelePrompTer, 209

Teletype machines, 53, 54, 126, 129, 258, 264, 268, 269–70

television

   cable TV, 543, 558–59

   Cronkite as game show host, 158

   Cronkite’s 1933 Chicago World’s Fair TV debut, 35–36, 39

   global TV service, 416

   and influence on presidential elections, 141

   Kennedy as “first television president,” 242

   1948 political convention coverage, 141, 159

   and 1967 AFTRA strike, 357–59

   and radio networks after World War II, 115–16

   TV license renewals, 475, 477

   TV sets in the U.S., 367

   as a “vast wasteland,” 229, 265

   
See also
CBS TV; NBC TV

television news

   “anchorman” term, 115, 141, 142, 161, 543

   celebrity newscasters, 359–60

   complexities of, 290–91

   Cronkite and quality of, 614–15, 658

   Cronkite’s first TV newscast, 152–53

   Cronkite with WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C., 152–57, 251, 350, 520

   fifteen-minute news format, 250, 256

   first color broadcasts, 222, 242, 323

   Gulf War as cable TV’s war, 604–5

   half-hour news format, 256–63

   infancy of, 149–58

   live telecasts to Europe, 253–54

   Murrow legacy in, 218

   Nixon vs., 440–48, 451, 454–55, 457–58, 466

   shift from radio to TV, 165

   Vietnam War as “Television War,” 379

   
See also
CBS News; NBC News

television ratings system, 288–90

Tell Me a Story
(Hewitt), 124, 411, 511

Telstar communications satellite, 253–54, 416, 658

Terry, Carolyn, 497

Texas Air National Guard, 640–41

Texas Dental School, 20, 24, 27

Texas Monthly
, 659

Texas School Book Depository, Dallas, TX, 267, 276, 278–79

Texas Star Hotel, Fort Worth, TX, 266

Texas Supreme Court, 37

Texas Theatre, Dallas, TX, 276–77

Texas
, U.S.S., 81, 82–84, 85

Theatre Arts
magazine, 170

The Week’s News
(WTOP-TV show), 155–56

Thieu, Nguyen Van, 372

This Is New York
(CBS Radio), 308

This Week
(ABC News), 567

Thomas, Lowell, 30, 31, 48, 160, 167, 168, 181, 192, 198–99, 203, 262, 360, 532

Thompson, Hunter S., 592

Thompson, Virgil, 21

Thornburgh, Dick, 643

303rd Bomber Group, 109

Three Lives
(Stein), 38

Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 533–34

Threlkeld, Richard, 509

Thurmond, Strom, 294, 296

Tiffany Network, 176, 179, 234, 315, 325, 331, 411, 585

Time-Life
broadcasting, 310, 519

Time
magazine, 20, 30, 125, 167, 187, 324, 433, 492, 536

   astronauts as its “Men of the Year,” 409

   Big Three anchormen on cover of, 445–46

   cover story of Cronkite, 487

   and Cronkite’s Middle East intervention, 528–29

   on Walters, 523, 524

Time Out
(album), 593

Tippit, James, 276

Tisch, Laurence, 585–86, 596

“T Minus 4 Years, 4 Months, 30 Days, and Counting” (CBS News), 332–33

“Today and Tomorrow” columns, Lippmann’s, 232

Today
show (NBC TV), 178, 179, 217, 495, 516, 523, 572, 623

Todd, Mike, 190, 191

Todman, Bill, 158

Toklas, Alice B., 38

Toland, John, 194

To Make a Newer World
(R. Kennedy), 365

Tonight Show, The
(NBC TV), 179, 180, 495, 499

Toole, John Kennedy, 363

Topeka Daily Capital, The
, 516

To the Moon
(CBS News), 337–38

Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, A
(CBS
Eyewitness
), 250

Townsend, Dallas, 234

Trade Mart, Dallas, TX, 265, 266

Travels with Charley
(Steinbeck), 579

Trial of Billy Jack, The
(movie), 521

Trout Robert, 48, 49, 160, 185, 186–87, 648

   and 1964 political conventions, 309–10, 313, 317, 318, 320–21

Truman, Harry S., 17, 46, 139, 141, 147, 163, 204, 341

   Cronkite’s interview with, 157–58

   “Legacy of Harry S. Truman, The” (CBS News), 574

Truman Doctrine, 138

Trump, Donald, 630

Tuchman, Barbara W., 380

Tulane University, 61, 512

Turner, Ted, 516, 584–85, 586, 658

Turner Broadcasting, 558

TV Guide
, 410, 464, 636

Twelve Hours of Sebring race, 180–81

Twentieth Century, The
(CBS News), 179, 190, 191–94, 195, 196, 199, 200–201, 319, 320, 344, 350, 430

Twenty-First Century, The
(CBS News), 430, 437

Twitter, 282

2001: A Space Odyssey
(Clarke), 415, 418

U-boats, German, 87

Umphress, F. E., Jr., 109

Understanding Great Books
(Discovery Channel), 610

Union Carbide, 430, 437

Union Oil, 429

Unipressers, 53–65

United Artists, 491

United Nations, 630

United Press International (UPI), 300, 320

   International News Service and, 325

   and Kennedy assassination, 267, 268, 269–70, 273

   and LBJ’s death, 489, 490

United Press (UP), Cronkite with, 30, 41–42, 218

   chief correspondent, 134–40, 145–46

   “Dean of the Air-War Writers,” 108–9, 129

   departure from UP, 146

   establishment of UP bureaus, 126–29

   in Moscow, 136–40

   Nuremberg trials, 131–36, 654

   war correspondent, 76–132

   wire service reporter, 53–58, 61–65, 69–76

United States—Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of the Defense
(Pentagon report), 458

UNIVAC (computer), 166–70

Universe
(CBS science magazine), 548, 554–58, 567, 568, 609

University of Illinois–Chicago, 484

University of Kansas–Lawrence, 160

University of Michigan, 193

University of Minnesota, 141

University of Missouri–Columbia, 29, 36, 50, 55, 330, 435

University of Oklahoma, 59

University of Texas at Austin, 59, 208, 231, 379

   Cronkite at, 36–41, 44–45

   Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 371, 597, 648, 651

   Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communications, 583

University of Tulsa, 59

University of Wisconsin Medical School, 632

UN Plaza co-op, Cronkite’s, 624, 628, 637, 644–45, 646, 652, 653

Up to the Minute
(CBS News), 153, 155, 641