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Dan Rather
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 Wal…
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culture · American broadcast journalist (born 1931) · news presenter · journalist · television producer · opinion journalist · also Dan Rather, Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr., Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather Jr., Daniel Irvin Rather, Daniel Rather, Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather
Born 31 October 1931 · Q733027
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2026· 3 entries
Yahoo: Dan Rather, 94, Shares a Smile With Fired ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi
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Public attention spiked: 3,033 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 901, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Dan Rather Returns to CBS After 18 Years: ‘I’ve Missed It Since the Day I Left’ | Video
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New York Post: Dan Rather returns to CBS for the first time 18 years after he departed in disgrace
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Netflix aired the documentary film Rather, directed by Frank Marshall, a biography of Rather
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2023· 3 entries
Yahoo: Dan Rather Says Donald Trump Could Win Reelection: “It Would Be Foolish” To Think Otherwise
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Variety: Dan Rather Says He’s Never Been Angry About His CBS Firing. But a New Documentary Restores Some Justice to His Lengthy Career
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Rather was inducted into the SXSW Hall of Fame
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2018· 1 entry
It was announced that Rather would be launching a weekly 30-minute newscast on The Young Turks
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
SiriusXM Radio announced a new hour-long weekly program, Dan Rather's America, airing Tuesday mornings at 10 am Eastern on Radio Andy channel 102, debuting on September 27
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2015· 2 entries
Rather launched an independent production company called News and Guts Media, through which he produces The Big Interview among other projects
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Rather also began actively posting on Facebook
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Trustees Award (2013).
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2012· 4 entries
Awarded Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award (2012).
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Rather appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher and said he had been fired for reporting a story about George W
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“took a big whack out of my time, my psyche and my bank balance, but even so, it was worth it”
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Rather published an autobiography titled Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News
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2010· 1 entry
New York's top court refused to reinstate Rather's breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS Corp
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2009· 3 entries
A New York state appeals court dismissed Rather's lawsuit against CBS
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Rather's lawyers said that Bush's military service would be proven to be a sham, and Rather would be vindicated
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“s military service would be proven to be a sham, and Rather would be vindicated. On September 29, 2009, a New York state appeals court dismissed Rather”
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2008· 2 entries
“This thing is as tight as the rusted lugnuts on a '55 Ford.”
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“This race is shakier than cafeteria Jell-O.”
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2007· 3 entries
Rather was interviewed on Larry King Live commenting, "Nobody has proved that they were fraudulent, much less a forgery
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Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court before judge Ira Gammerman, against CBS, its former parent company Viacom; CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves; Sumner Redstone, chairman of both Viacom a
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Rather compared historical events to events in the Star Wars films in the History Channel special titled Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
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2006· 3 entries
CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus announced that Rather would leave the network after 44 years
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Rather spoke to a Seattle audience
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“In many ways on many days, [reporters] have sort of adopted the attitude of”
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2005· 3 entries
Following the Killian documents controversy, in which he presented unauthenticated documents in a news report on President George W
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When Bob Schieffer became the interim anchor between Rather and Katie Couric
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Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite said about Rather: "It surprised quite a few people at CBS and elsewhere that, without being able to pull up the ratings beyond third in a three-man field, that they tolerated his being
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2004· 4 entries
Rather reported on 60 Minutes Wednesday that a series of memos critical of President George W
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National Review ran an article by Anne Morse entitled "The First Rathergate"
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Was featured in the documentary film Barbecue: A Texas Love Story by Austin-based director Chris Elley
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“If I knew then what I know now, I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.”
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2003· 1 entry
Rather conducted another interview with Hussein before the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq
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2002· 1 entry
Bernard Goldberg published a book with the title Bias, alleging a liberal bias in print and broadcast news organizations
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2001· 2 entries
And especially to those who found themselves closest to the events of September 11; to our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, in dangerous places; to those who have endured the tsunami, and to all who have suffered n
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Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2000· 1 entry
Claiming copyright violation, but after fair use responses from the Committee and others, desisted
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1997· 1 entry
A TV critic writing in the New York Daily News solved the mystery, publishing a photo of the alleged assailant, William Tager, who received a 12
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded News and Documentary Emmy Awards for 48 Hours: Hurricane Watch (1990).
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1988· 2 entries
Rather hosted a CBS News special, The Wall Within
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And his polling favorability benefited in Iowa and New Hampshire after the interview aired
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1987· 2 entries
Pope John Paul II was in Miami, beginning a rare U
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New CBS owner Laurence Tisch oversaw layoffs of hundreds of CBS News employees, in a major shake-up of the network
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1986· 1 entry
While walking along Park Avenue to his New York apartment, Rather was attacked and punched from behind by a man who demanded to know "Kenneth, what is the frequency
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1985· 1 entry
Until 1989, when he ceded the ratings peak to rival Peter Jennings at ABC's World News Tonight
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1981· 1 entry
Rather was promoted to news anchor for the CBS Evening News, a role he occupied for 24 years
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1980· 2 entries
Rather landed at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and got into a cab
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Rather and CBS were taken to court when Carl Galloway, a California doctor, claimed that a report on 60 Minutes wrongfully implicated him in an insurance fraud scheme
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1974· 2 entries
Rather became chief correspondent for the documentary series CBS Reports
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With KPRC-TV in Houston about his exchange with Richard Nixo n from Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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1971· 2 entries
Had a cameo in an episode of the number one hit comedy series All in the Family
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“[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.”
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1970· 1 entry
Was also assigned as anchor for the CBS Sunday Night News (1970–73; 1974–75), and later for the CBS Saturday Evening News (1973–76) and rotated with Bob Schieffer on the CBS Sunday "Evening News" (1976)
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1965· 2 entries
Rather served as a foreign correspondent for CBS in London, and in 1966 in Vietnam
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Contributed to the reporting of return to Washington from Dallas by Charles von Fremd during a conversation that NBC Director Max Schindler, who directed the coverage of the arrival for the networks, did with Presiden
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1964· 1 entry
Selected him for the network's White House correspondent position
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1962· 1 entry
Rather left Houston for New York City for a six-month trial initiation at CBS
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1959· 1 entry
Rather began his television career as part of a weekly Coaches Show for the University of Houston on KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate in Houston
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1953· 1 entry
Rather earned a bachelor's degree in journalism, and he was editor of the school newspaper, The Houstonian
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1950· 1 entry
As an Associated Press reporter in Huntsville, Texas
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1931· 2 entries
Born 1931-10-31.
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In Wharton County, Texas, the son of Daniel Irvin Rather Sr
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