/internal/media/dispatcher/72317/fullDon Hewitt Oral History11/09/200255 MinutesHi-8 videotapeOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2002.001.00380Videotaped oral history interview with Don Hewitt -- Best known as the creator of the 60 Minutes television series, Mr. Hewitt produced and directed the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. In 1963, he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and was one of the producers coordinating CBS coverage of the assassination.Oral Histories6426421505Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Don Hewitt. Best known as the creator of the "60 Minutes" television series, Mr. Hewitt produced and directed the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. In 1963, he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and was one of the producers coordinating CBS coverage of the assassination.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 9, 2002 by Jeff West and Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-five minutes long.
Debates1960 presidential electionPresidential campaignOral historiesCronkite, WalterHewitt, Don60 MinutesCBS NewsDallasKennedy Family Acquaintances (OHC)News Media (OHC)Mr. Hewitt passed away on August 19, 2009, just over a month after his friend and CBS colleague Walter Cronkite passed away on July 17, 2009.
Mr. Hewitt's autobiography, Tell Me A Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television, was published in 2001. He read excerpts from the book during this oral history interview. - Stephen Fagin, Curator