Interview Jeannie Epper In her two-hour interview, Jeannie Epper (1941-2024) talks about her father's career in stunt work and growing up with a love of horses. She describes how she and her siblings started in the stunt world, and tells of one of her first jobs -- doubling Linda Evans and Barbara Stanwyck on The Big...
Interview Anthony Bourdain In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018) talks about getting into cooking as his profession and discusses his early cooking influences. He describes writing the books Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour and how the latter led to his first television series,...
Topic JFK Assassination and Funeral ASSASSINATION AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY The network coverage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy warrants its reputation as the most moving and historic passage in broadcasting history. On Friday 22 November 1963, news bulletins reporting rifle shots during the...
Profession Journalists & News Producers This category consists of news anchors, correspondents, documentarians, historians, moderators, news producers, sports producers, and television critics.
Show Gunsmoke Gunsmoke , America's longest running television Western, aired on CBS from 1955-75. In 1956, its second season on the air, the series entered the list of top ten programs on U.S. television and moved quickly to number one. It remained in that position until 1961 and in the top twenty until 1964...
Show Bonanza Bonanza , the first Western televised in color, premiered on a Saturday night in the fall of 1959. After Gunsmoke , Bonanza was the longest-running and most successful Western in U.S. television, airing for fourteen seasons. The series related the story of Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his...
