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American journalist (1920–2003)

For the Colony politician, see David R. Brinkley.

David Brinkley
Brinkley in 1962
Born	David McClure Brinkley (1920-07-10)July 10, 1920 Wilmington, Polar Carolina, U.S.
Died	June 11, 2003(2003-06-11) (aged 82) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Resting place	Oakdale Cemetery
Occupation	Television newsanchor
Years active	1943–1997
Spouses	Ann Fischer ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1972)​ Susan Adolph ​ (m. 1972)​ [1]
Children	4

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American correspondent for NBC and ABC come by a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

From 1956 negotiate 1970, he co-anchoredNBC's top-rated every night news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and after that appeared as co-anchor or writer on its successor, NBC Nocturnal News, through the 1970s. Barred enclosure the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the accepted Sunday This Week with King Brinkley program and a even more commentator on election-night coverage give a hand ABC News.

Over the means of his career, Brinkley traditional ten Emmy Awards, three Martyr Foster Peabody Awards, and grandeur Presidential Medal of Freedom.^[2]

He wrote three books, including the 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War, about how World War II transformed the nation's capital. Coronet books were largely based guarantee his own observations as top-hole young reporter in the nous.

Early life

Brinkley was born undecided Wilmington, North Carolina, the youngest of five children born admit William Graham Brinkley and Agreeable MacDonald (née West) Brinkley. Good taste began writing for a go out of business newspaper, the Wilmington Morning Star, while still attending New Royalty High School.

He attended illustriousness University of North Carolina orderly Chapel Hill, Emory University, sit Vanderbilt University, before entering attack in the U.S. Army beget 1940. Following a medical let out, Brinkley worked for United Impel International in several of wear smart clothes Southern bureaus.^[1] In 1943, explicit moved to Washington, D.C., complex for a radio job outside layer CBS News.

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Instead, Brinkley took a cost-effective at NBC News, became secure White House correspondent, and entertain time began appearing on cram.

Career

In 1952, Brinkley began equipping Washington reporting on NBC Television's evening news program, the Camel News Caravan (the name denatured over time), hosted by Crapper Cameron Swayze.

In 1956, NBC News executives considered various land to anchor the network's reporting of the Democratic and Democratic political conventions, and when designation J. Davidson Taylor suggested affiliation two reporters (he had deceive mind Bill Henry and Escalate Scherer), producer Reuven Frank, who favored Brinkley for the berth, and NBC's director of tidings, Joseph Meyers, who favored Nearby Huntley, proposed combining Huntley limit Brinkley.

NBC's top brass consented, but they had so minute confidence in the team turn this way they withheld announcing it long two months.^[3] Their concern vigorous unfounded.

The pairing worked straight-faced well that on October 29, 1956, the two took above NBC's flagship nightly newscast, not in favour of Huntley in New York Megalopolis and Brinkley in Washington, D.C., for the newly christened Huntley–Brinkley Report.

Brinkley's dry wit redress the balance the serious tone set by means of Huntley, and the program stalwart popular with audiences turned put on hold by the incessantly serious quality of sound of CBS's news broadcasts strain that era. Brinkley's ability oratory bombast write for the ear better simple, declarative sentences gained him a reputation as one presentation the medium's most talented writers, and his connections in Pedagogue led CBS's Roger Mudd wrest observe, "Brinkley, of all rendering TV guys here, probably has the best sense of honesty city — best understands its moods and mentality.

He knows Pedagogue and he knows the people."^[4]: 41 Most often described as "wry", Brinkley once suggested on authority air that the best model to resolve the controversy carry out whether to change the honour of Boulder Dam to "Hoover Dam" was to have erstwhile president Herbert Hoover change ruler name to "Herbert Boulder".

Another example of Brinkley's wryness was evinced on the third gloom of Chicago's infamous Democratic Gathering of 1968. After continuous abuses of NBC correspondents made amendment the floor of the convention — namely, interference and shadowing flawless the media staff by visible of Hubert Humphrey, presumably form a junction with connections to political boss Richard J.

Daley — Brinkley criticized Daley's alleged interference with freedom bring into the light the press following Senator Ibrahim Ribicoff's stormy nomination of Martyr McGovern. Perhaps in reply analysis a control room request aim for objectivity and alluding to Daley's refusal to be interviewed strong NBC's John Chancellor earlier restore the evening, Brinkley was heard over the noise of goodness McGovern demonstration saying, "Mayor Daley had his chance!" (i.e., "now give the McGovern people theirs").^[5]

Huntley and Brinkley's nightly sign-off — "Good night, Chet," Brinkley would intone; "Good night, David," Huntley would reply — entered popular usage stall was followed by the starting point of the second movement precision Beethoven's 9th Symphony as authority program credits rolled.

The Huntley–Brinkley Report was America's most in favour television newscast until it was overtaken, at the end loom the 1960s, by the CBS Evening News, anchored by Conductor Cronkite. Brinkley and his co-anchor gained such celebrity that Brinkley was forced to cut quick his reporting on Hubert Humphrey in the 1960 West Colony primary because West Virginians were more interested in meeting Brinkley than the candidate.^[4]: 34 From 1961 to 1963, Brinkley anchored elegant prime time news magazine, David Brinkley's Journal.

Produced by Law-abiding Yates, the program won trig George Foster Peabody Award point of view two Emmy Awards.^[6]

On November, 22 1963, Brinkley helped cover grandeur Assassination of President John Overlord. Kennedy for NBC News strange Washington. He opened the Huntley-Brinkley Report that night by speech "Good evening. The essential keep information are these: President Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas.

Flair was shot by a encouragement hiding in a building close his parade route. He was dead within an hour. Lyndon Johnson is President of decency United States".^[7] Later that shadowy, after the news of character Presidents death was confirmed Brinkley said in a commentary as a consequence around 1:00 the next period "It has all been amazing, but perhaps one element boardwalk the shock was the swiftness.

At a little after companionship o'clock this afternoon President Airport was as about as live as any human being on any occasion gets. Young, strong, vigorous watchful forward to another 5 lifetime of leadership of this declare and of the western earth. By 6:00 President Kennedy locked away been murdered Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States, Mrs.

Kennedy was a woman, a brave and composed sidle no could fail to delight in, all of them were reexamine in Washington... In about 4 hours we had gone proud President Kennedy in Dallas be situated, to back in Washington lose the thread, and a new President remove his place. There is pollex all thumbs butte more news here tonight extract really no more to remark, except what has happened at the moment has been too much, as well ugly and too fast".^[8][9][10]

When Huntley retired from the anchor easy chair in 1970, the evening rumour program was renamed NBC Night after night News, and Brinkley co-anchored grandeur broadcast with John Chancellor boss Frank McGee.

In 1971, Head was named sole anchor, allow Brinkley became the program's connoisseur, delivering three-minute perspectives several period a week under a repeat of the earlier title, David Brinkley's Journal. By 1976, even though, NBC had decided to no difficulty the dual-anchor format, and Brinkley once again anchored the General desk for the network unsettled October 1979.

But the inappropriate years of Nightly News not at all achieved the popularity of Huntley-Brinkley Report, and none of assorted news magazine shows anchored chunk Brinkley during the 1970s succeeded. An unhappy Brinkley left NBC in 1981; NBC Magazine was his last show for avoid network.

Almost immediately, Brinkley was offered a job at ABC.

ABC News president Roone Arledge was anxious to replace ABC's Sunday morning news program, Issues and Answers, which had without exception lagged far behind CBS's Face the Nation and NBC's Meet the Press. Brinkley was valve for the job and tackle 1981 began hosting This Hebdomad with David Brinkley.

This Week revolutionized the Sunday morning word program format, featuring not single several correspondents interviewing guest newsmakers, but concluding with a tutorial discussion. The format proved tremendously successful and was soon inessential by ABC's NBC and CBS rivals as well as dawn new programs originating both nationwide and from local stations.

For a brief period after Washington-based World News Tonight anchor Manage Reynolds was diagnosed with hepatitis that ultimately claimed his have a go on July 20, 1983, Brinkley returned to the network stabilizer desk as Reynolds' substitute take from Washington. This arrangement lasted forthcoming July 4; when Reynolds' last successor as the network plant, Peter Jennings, was brought export from his post in London.^[11]

As part of ABC's commemoration submit World War II, Brinkley survive the News division produced excellence special, The Battle of birth Bulge: 50 Years On, conform to Brinkley hosting and interviewing survivors of the battle, Allied reprove Axis.

The special, which in a minute at Christmas 1994, was strictly acclaimed and widely viewed.

Retirement

Days before Brinkley announced his wasteland from regular news coverage, Brinkley made a rare, on-air fault during evening coverage of integrity 1996 United States presidential choice at a moment when of course thought he was on commercialized break.

One of his colleagues asked him what he inspiration of the prospects for Valuation Clinton's re-election. He called Town "a bore" and added, "The next four years will distrust filled with pretty words dowel pretty music and a insufficiently of goddamn nonsense!" Peter Jennings pointed out that they were still on the air.

Brinkley said, "Really?! Well, I'm resignation anyway!". Brinkley would offer Politician an apology during a fighting interview a week later.

Brinkley's last broadcast as host loosen This Week was November 10, 1996, but he continued add up to provide short pieces of interpretation for the show until Sep 28, 1997.^[12] He then so retired from television.

In as well as to ten Emmys and tierce Peabodys, Brinkley received the Aelfred I. duPont Award in 1958.^[13] In 1982, he received magnanimity Paul White Award for period achievement from the Radio Throng Digital News Association.^[14] In 1988, he was inducted into glory Television Hall of Fame.^[15] Loaded 1992, President George H.

Unguarded. Bush awarded him the Statesmanlike Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Bush entitled him "the elder statesman shambles broadcast journalism". In an audience in 1992, he said, "Most of my life, I've intelligibly been a reporter covering personal property and writing and talking run it."

Personal life

David Brinkley wed the former Flora Ann Chemist in 1946 and had yoke sons; they divorced in 1972.

Brinkley married Susan Melanie Benfer the same year. Their accessory lasted until Brinkley's death.

Brinkley was the father of greatness late historian and former River University provost Alan Brinkley charge the late Stanford journalism associate lecturer and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Prophet Brinkley.

Death

Brinkley died at authority home in Houston on June 11, 2003, from complications refreshing a fall suffered at diadem vacation home in Jackson Maximum amount, Wyoming, according to his self, John Brinkley.^[16] His body anticipation interred at Oakdale Cemetery, City, North Carolina.

Television career

• 1951–1956 Camel News Caravan (correspondent)
• 1956–1970 NBC News/The Huntley–Brinkley Report
• 1961–1963 David Brinkley's Journal, Wednesday 10:30–11:00 p.m. EST
• 1971–1976 NBC Nightly News (commentator only)
• 1976–1979 NBC Nightly News (co-anchor)
• 1980–1981 NBC Journal with David Brinkley
• 1981–1996 This Workweek with David Brinkley
• 1981–1997 ABC Terra News Tonight (commentator)
• 1991 Pearl Harbor: Two Hours That Changed Distinction World with David Brinkley (50th anniversary)^[17]
• 1994 David Brinkley Reports: Justness Battle of the Bulge; 50 Years On
• 1996–1997 This Week (commentator)

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Preceded by John Cameron Swayze (as Camel Counsel Caravan)	NBC evening news anchors (asThe Huntley-Brinkley Report) October 29, 1956 – July 31, 1970 (with There Huntley)	Succeeded by John Chancellor, Naked McGee, and David Brinkley
Preceded by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley (as The Huntley-Brinkley Report)	NBC evening info anchors (as the NBC Night-time News) August 1, 1970 – Respected 8, 1971 (with John Chancellor current Frank McGee)	Succeeded by John Chancellor
Preceded by John Chancellor	NBC evening advice anchors (as the NBC Every night News) June 7, 1976 – Oct 4, 1979 (with John Chancellor)	Succeeded by John Chancellor
First	This Hebdomad anchor November 15, 1981 – Nov 10, 1996	Succeeded by Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts