Don Hewitt
Journalist, TV Producer
1922 – 2009
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Who was Don Hewitt?
Donald Shepard "Don" Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine, in 1968, which at the time of his death, was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leadership, 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated the nation's top-ranked television program, an achievement it accomplished five times. Hewitt produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.
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- Born
- Dec 14, 1922
New York City - Also known as
- Donald Hewitt
- Don S. Hewitt
- Donald Shephard Hewitt
- Spouses
- Mary Weaver
(1945 - 1963) - Frankie Hewitt
(1963/06/08 - 1974) - Marilyn Berger
(1979/04 - 2009/08/19)
- Mary Weaver
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- New Rochelle High School
- Rochelle Township High School
- Employment
- Copyboy, New York Herald Tribune Company
(1942 - ) - CBS News
(1948 - )
- Copyboy, New York Herald Tribune Company
- Lived in
- New York
- Died
- Aug 19, 2009
Bridgehampton
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on July 23, 2013
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