Remembering Don Hewitt on his birthday 🎂
📷 Librado Romero, 1999
"As a director & producer, Hewitt helped shape the early broadcasts of pioneers like Edward R. Murrow, Douglas Edwards & Walter Cronkite & oversaw CBS’s coverage of watershed moments."
- Jacques Steinberg
"It was a confrontation & a joint news conference, but nobody ever debated."
- Don Hewitt on the Nixon-Kennedy debate
Standards were a bit higher then!
"Kennedy knew how important this television appearance would be. Nixon kissed it off as just another campaign appearance."
- Don Hewitt
Today we're celebrating Don Hewitt's birthday 🎂
The young producer stands next to Charles Kuralt, in Coon Rapids, Minnesota during Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit
📷 Bob Henriques
#PhoneCallFromPaul tweet on Don Hewitt's birthday 🎂
Take 60 minutes & check out Paul @Holdengraber's conversations with fascinating people:
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@lithub @CallFromPaul
Mike Wallace & Don Hewitt on 60 Minutes, June 8, 1975
Hewitt's oral history with the JFK Presidential Library is fascinating:
archive2.jfklibrary.org/JFKOH/Hewitt,%…
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