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Interview

Leonard Goldberg

In his nearly six-hour interview, Leonard Goldberg (1934-2019) talks about breaking into the business in the research departments at ABC and NBC in the 1950s. He speaks of his return...
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Interview

Jack Klugman

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Jack Klugman (1922-2012) fondly recalls his fifty years in television, including his over 400 appearances on many of the early dramatic live anthology programs, such as...
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Interview

Ed Bradley

Ed Bradley says of his interviewing style: "My job is to put someone in a chair and get them to talk and tell their story, as if there are no...
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Interview

Abraham Polonsky

In his nearly three-hour interview, Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999) speaks frankly about appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1951 (in which he was labeled by Congressman Harold H...
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Interview

Bob Schieffer

In his two-hour interview, Bob Schieffer speaks about his early years and growing up during World War II. He talks about his decision to pursue a career in journalism after...
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Interview

Don Hewitt

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Don Hewitt (1922-2009) speaks about the beginnings of broadcast journalism. He recalls the days of Douglas Edwards with the News. He discusses his role in the...
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Interview

Sig Mickelson

In his five-hour interview, Sig Mickelson (1913–2000) talks about his long career as an executive with CBS News, which culminated with his appointment as the network's first news president (1959-61)...
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Walter Bernstein

In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Walter Bernstein (1919-2021) discusses being listed in Red Channels in 1950 and talks of his ties to the Communist Party. Despite being blacklisted and pressured by...
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Interview

Sidney Lumet

In his three-hour interview, Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) speaks of his work as an actor on the stage before he became a director in television. He recalls his work on the...
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Interview

Mike Wallace

In his three-hour interview, Mike Wallace (1918-2012) talks about his early life and his first jobs in radio. He recalls his early television shows, including Mike and Buff, Night Beat...
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Dan Rather

In his nearly eight-hour interview, Dan Rather talks at length about growing up in Houston, TX and his early years as a radio and television journalist in the local market...
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Interview

Ossie Davis

In his over two-hour interview, Ossie Davis (1917-2005) speaks of his early years as an actor starting out in the theater. He discusses his early television appearances on Showtime U.S.A...
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Interview

Alan Alda

In his three-hour interview, Alan Alda describes his M*A*S*H character "Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce," as "… a sharp wit, a little bit of a smart aleck, competitive about his surgery...
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Beatrice Arthur

Beatrice Arthur (1922-2009) declares her higher ideals for television: "I was bringing my theater training to television. I remember somebody said— and it's true— that I was trying to turn...
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Interview

Sherman Hemsley

In his one-hour interview, Sherman Hemsley (1938-2012) talks about his early career as a stage actor (while continuing to work a day job at the post office) and his rise...
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Interview

Rob Reiner

In his four-hour interview, Rob Reiner talks about growing up surrounded by the group of comedy legends that included his father, Carl, Sid Caesar, and Mel Brooks. He discusses his...
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Interview

Jerry Lewis

In his nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, Jerry Lewis (1926-2017) describes his rise to stardom as a performer in the famed Borscht Belt and expresses how his father profoundly shaped his own...
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Interview

Andy Williams

In his one-and-a-half-hour interview, Andy Williams (1927-2012) discusses his early career working in his brothers' singing group on stage and in radio, before embarking on a solo career. He speaks...
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Interview

Harry Morgan

In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Harry Morgan (1915-2011) describes his start in show business, acting in summer stock productions which in turn led to his work in the Group Theater and...
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Interview

William Tankersley

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, William Tankersley (1918-2016) discusses his start in CBS promotions and merchandising and his rise to head of Standards & Practices. He recalls CBS' rules about violence...
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