Thoroughly Anderson Cooper: Don Hewitt

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Don Hewitt

Anderson's boss at "60 Minutes" dies on Wednesday.

CBS creator Don Hewitt dies at 86

By DAVID BAUDER (AP) – 1 hour ago

NEW YORK — Don Hewitt, the CBS Newsman who invented "60 Minutes" and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86.

He died of pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton home, CBS said. His death came month after that of fellow CBS legend Walter Cronkite.

Hewitt joined CBS News in television's infancy in 1948, and produced the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960.

He made his mark in the late 1960s when CBS agreed to try his idea of a one-hour broadcast that mixed hard news and feature stories. The television newsmagazine was born on Sept. 24, 1968, when the "60 Minutes" stopwatch began ticking.

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