Bob Schieffer
Air Date: July 31, 2009
If you had to choose one word to describe Bob Schieffer, it might be "modest." The former CBS Evening News anchor and host of Face the Nation has spent the last 50 years quietly but reliably gathering and reporting the news. From the assassination of John F. Kennedy, to the 2008 presidential race, and just about everything in between – Scheiffer has covered it all, but always putting the story first and his own ambitions and personality second. Now, Schieffer has been bestowed one of journalism’s highest honors -- the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award from Washington State University.
In this Conversations at KCTS 9, we turn the tables on Bob and put the humble newsman in the spotlight: how he almost didn’t become a reporter; what it was like working with the likes of Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Roger Mudd and others in the heyday of Washington D.C. journalism; hosting the 2008 Presidential Debate; and the biggest story Schieffer almost got with Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
