From the JFK assassination to Vietnam to the Nixon White House, longtime CBS TV correspondent Bob Schieffer has covered it all.
During a broadcast career that has now spanned six decades Schieffer has helped write the book on modern electronic journalism.
Bob Schieffer started his career in his native Texas as a newspaper reporter – that’s how he found himself in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
And it was his newspaper that sent him to Vietnam – at his own request.
After joining CBS in 1969 Schieffer covered Congress, the State Department, the Pentagon, and ultimately the White House, winning virtually every major journalism award along the way.
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And Sunday morning TV viewers will remember him as the moderator of “Face the Nation,” a position he held for 24 years.
It was during his tenure on “Face the Nation” that Schieffer wrote a journalist’s memoir, a book he called This Just In.
So here now, from 2004, Bob Schieffer.
Bob Schieffer was named a “Living Legend“ by the Library of Congress in 2008. Today at age 88 Bob Schieffer is a fellow at Harvard.
