CBS News parodies [sound recording], undated.

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CBS News parodies [sound recording], undated.

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Four recorded parodies of CBS News figures and operations by O'Hara. Spoofed is Walter Cronkite's D-Day re-visited interview with Dwight Eisenhower (featuring Mel Brooks); "The Bird," an international satellite broadcast; "I've Got a Secret"; and Harry Reasoner's narration of a version of The Night Before Christmas entitled "Cronkiter's Christmas Carol."

2 disc recordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926434

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Cronkite, Walter, 1916-2009

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For newspapers, radio, and television, Walter Leland Cronkite (1916-2009) covered almost every major news event in the world from World War II to his retirement in 1982. Since then, he worked on special projects and continued a career in writing. He was born Nov. 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Mo., and grew up in Houston, where he attended high school. While attending the University of Texas, he worked at the capital bureau of the Scripps-Howard newspapers and in his junior year, he left ...

Brooks, Melissa

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Reasoner, Harry, 1923-1991

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Harry Reasoner (1923-1991) was a television journalist. He worked at CBS News for twenty-seven years, beginning in 1956 and, with Mike Wallace, started the news show "60 Minutes". In 1970 he left CBS to co-anchor ABC News with Barbara Walters, and returned to CBS in 1978. He won two Emmy Awards and the George Foster Peabody Prize. From the description of Reasoner, Harry, papers, 1944-1991. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 68903440 American jo...

O'Hara, Hamilton

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