Catherine Mackin papers

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Catherine Mackin papers

1956-1980 (majority 1971-1980)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1254

Catherine "Cassie" Mackin (1939-1982) was a television network correspondent noted for her national politics and government knowledge. After graduating from the University of Maryland, she worked for the Baltimore Sun from 1960-1963 and the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau from 1963-1969. She began her television career at WRC-TV in Washington, where she worked from 1969 to 1971. She was then hired by NBC News and was the network's first female correspondent to serve as a floor reporter at the Democratic and National Conventions in 1972. In 1976, she became the first woman to anchor an evening network newscast regularly. Switching to ABC in 1977, Mackin served as Senate correspondent and covered the 1980 Democratic primary campaign of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Her papers reflect her work as a political correspondent and reporter for the Hearst News Bureau and two television news networks. The collection includes notes and articles on significant political figures and events and an extensive file of articles by Mackin and audiotapes of speeches and interviews and videotapes of her broadcasts. The majority of the later dated materials document the 1972 presidential race and Senator Edward M. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1980.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6951343

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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