Title

A reporter's life.

Description

Autobiography of Walter Cronkite.

Identifier

596821

394578791

Creator

Cronkite, Walter

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1996

Program air date: June 29, 1997

Publisher

A.A. Knopf

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: b. 1916 (Nov.). Private tour of Buckingham Palace. Oral History at U. of Texas. Sense of humor--Betsy married 3/30/40, Nancy Nov 8, 1948. Oral History. "we resorted to all the dirty tricks ever derived in the game" picture snatching. Lamb charts the number of pages per chapter. Would your heart by-pass operation have made it into the book. Johnson interviews (memoirs) did you pay him. Racial discrimination (Dr. Smith--nigger to put foot on white man's porch p. 20. Mustache--father. Initiated other announcers, crystal radio--a cult following, lied to get a job (my age). Trip to Himalayas--brightest road-p.287. Interview with Vorster p 299. I believe Kennedy would withdraw from Vietnam p. 243. Meeting with Schlesinger in Arthur Taylor's office p 255. [Verso] Lost respect for the Pulitzers (Russian crises). Vietnam--Kennedy would get out p 243. Schlesinger's meeting in Taylor's office p 255. "I was proud of the degree to which we had kept our evening newscast free of bias." Text editorial--"There was no way this war could be justified any longer." "I was defending freedom of the p[ress on the theory that if we members of the press did not speak up for this democratic essential no one else would." p 257. notes on front fly sheet: Most candid politician of any time Bob Strauss p 198. Mario Cuomo p 197-liberal vision. Adlai Stevenson p 181. Mac A p 172--not a great admirer of his politics. Nancy, Cathy, Chip. [Verso]: I think the new press cynicisms is a fad that fast will fade. I can't believe any news broadcaster today can possibly enjoy the work as much as we did. Lam brackets: [A cancer can be called a success if one can look back and say: 'I made a difference. I don't feel I can do that' . . . Van Gordon Sauters p 373.] The public's dependence on television for the bulk of its news endgames our democratic systems, p 375. The last line-sound bite journalism, p 375. Notes on half-title: In the beginning 'golden days' of television and of (p 347) television news the rules could bent as we found our way. Morning Show: puppet lion--Charlemagne 1954;Winston's R. J. Reynolds; Jack Parr--mother's telegram. Around the World in 90 minutes: Mike Todd, Liz Taylor. Person to Person: Ed Murrow, he endorsed Columbian coffee, read prepared questions. News to Me: quiz show--I was allowed to appear on. Chaos in the control room p 348. Remove opinion p 350. Lens hog p 349--colleagues reluctant to shave airtime. Big Footing p 356. "Tell" item p 362. 'And that's the way it is,' p 363. Dick Salant. 800 pound gorilla star system. Notes on back endpaper: I can't believe. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings provide further elaboration of ideas shown in the notes. Notes: "Oral history," "mustache," "Harding's death," "Dr. Smith 'nigger'," "racial injustice," "Blacks," "Fred Birney," "journalists have to [be] fair," "Houston Post," "Radio," "imitated announcer," "baseball scores," "picture snatching," "wrong address/wrong picture," "lie about my age," "voted as Anthony Lombardo," "Kansas City," "WWII," "London, D-Day," "Moscow," "get an agent," "Teddy White," "Stevenson," "LBJ question to be asked," "think of Nixon," "Nancy, Kathy," "cousin Doug Caldwell," "liberal principles," "Chip," "Robin Leach," "George Allen," "Truman W.H. tour," "W.H. off the record chat," "Betsy and Pat Nixon," "Safire and Buchanan lied," "a story's news value," "social graces Nixon v. Kennedys," "best brain Carter," "telephone co. jammed lines," "Gettysburg interviews-Ike," "LBJ," "Rolex watch," "LBJ review of interview," "assassination speculation," "Lady Bird," "support for Kennedy in Vietnam, had he lived," "half hour newscasts," "Pierpoint," "young correspondent," "Cam Ranh Bay," "LBJ his ships, his plane," "Schlesinger patriotism," "special report Tet offensive," "lunch with Kennedy," "run for Senate," "statement from Bobby Kennedy," "criticism of my coverage of space," "madam you are an idiot," "critics of mine. 'you are there'," "fire, live TV," "Joe McCarthy," "Watergate credit," "Sadat interviews," "Barbara Walters in Cairo," "Jimmy Hoffa," "Takeo Yoshikawa Pearl Harbor," "2 bouts claustrophobia," "Jack Parr," "Jack's mother," "last place," "Dick Van Dyke," "around the world," "Liz Taylor," "Ed Murrow," "quiz show," "chaos in the control room," "lens hog at the conventions," "Fred Friendly," "remove opinion," "TV v. Radio," "Charlie Kuralt," "1 million, 3 months off," "high wages," "elitist," "press cynicism," "Big-footing," "tell item," "magic number," "the way it is," "800 pound gorilla star system," "Larry Tish disaster," "drugs and CBS records," "I protested Sauter's running of news department," "CBS board disappointment," "I don't feel I made a difference," "stockholder greed," "TV endangers democratic system," "last line point of view," "the last line," "sound-bite journalism."

Subject

"Cronkite, Walter."

"Journalists--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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