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CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

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  • Dan Rather
  • Tom Bettag
  • Walter Cronkite
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People Talking About This Show

  • Tom Bettag
    • Tom Bettag on his involvement in Dan Rather taking over the anchor seat from Walter Cronkite at CBS Evening News
    • Tom Bettag on racing to cover Kuwait and the huge break that CBS got when Dan Rather got the interview with Saddam Hussein (10m 46s)
    • Tom Bettag on when Dan Rather walked way from the CBS anchor desk in protest of a sports event breaking into the news broadcast; forcing the network and affiliates to broadcast six minutes of dead air
  • Walter Cronkite
    • Walter Cronkite on his decision to step down as anchor of the CBS Evening News; and on Dan Rather replacing him
      (04m 34s)
  • Dan Rather
    • Dan Rather on becoming the CBS Evening News anchor and succeeding Walter Cronkite (13m 12s)
    • Dan Rather on succeeding Walter Cronkite as anchor of CBS Evening News (06m 41s)
    • Dan Rather on retiring from CBS Evening News (02m 37s)
    • Dan Rather on the blank screen that aired on CBS Evening News during the 1986 U.S. Open  (01m 26s)
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