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Roger Mudd, Part 1

In the first of a two-part interview, Roger Mudd talked about his memoir, The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Televisionread more

In the first of a two-part interview, Roger Mudd talked about his memoir, The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News, published by PublicAffairs. Mr. Mudd told the story of his years at CBS from 1961 to 1980. He talked about Dan Rather being chosen as successor to Walter Cronkite in 1980 to anchor the CBS Evening News, a position that Mudd thought was going to be his. He quit CBS then and worked as a correspondent for NBC and narrated at the History Channel until he retired. He talked about his relations with Dan Rather then and now. He described the role of Eric Sevareid, who wrote and delivered a popular two-minute nightly analysis of the day’s events, and a video clip was shown of a C-SPAN interview with Mr. Sevareid in 1989. Video clips were shown of Roger Mudd’s 1971 documentary, “The Selling of the Pentagon,” as he talked about the controversy that erupted over the way the documentary had been edited. He also told a never before published story abou close

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Program ID:
204450-1
Category:
Q&A
Format:
Interview
Location:
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
First Aired:
Mar 30, 2008 | 8:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 1
Last Aired:
Mar 14, 2021 | 10:00am EDT | C-SPAN 2

Airing Details

  • Mar 30, 2008 | 8:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 1
  • Mar 30, 2008 | 11:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 1
  • Mar 31, 2008 | 6:01am EDT | C-SPAN 1
  • Aug 11, 2008 | 7:04pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Sep 08, 2012 | 2:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 3
  • Sep 09, 2012 | 7:00am EDT | C-SPAN 3
  • Sep 10, 2012 | 2:59am EDT | C-SPAN 3
  • Mar 14, 2021 | 10:00am EDT | C-SPAN 2
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