Dan Rather
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Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name in September 1961 after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla.
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Rather's boyhood home being restored at the Wharton County Museum
Rather speaking about his experiences in his 61 years of journalism before a group of NATO commanders at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan in July 2011.
Rather (right) with president Ronald Reagan in 1982
Rather during an interview with Extra at the 2002 Peabody Awards
Rather at the 2005 Peabody Awards
Rather speaking with Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV and Sergeant Maj. Beam about the Afghan National Security Forces training mission and other issues at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 26, 2011
Rather at South by Southwest 2007; discussing media, the internet, and asking the "hard questions".In their own words 5
Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow.
Rather's first lines in his debut as anchor of The CBS Evening News, Monday, March 9, 1981.
He invented the job, the job of anchoring, did it himself for 40 years, and taught two generations of anchormen, including this one, how to do it.
On Douglas Edwards' retirement (1988)
There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people’s necks if they dissented.
Quoted by Norman Solomon in Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, p. 23 (2003)
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Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name in September 1961 after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla. He has reported on some of the most significant events of the modern age, such as from Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, 9/11, the Iraq War, and the war on terror.
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