Original television run on NBC: October 29, 1956 – July 31, 1970
From left: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley
The news show succeeded the Camel News Caravan anchored by John
Cameron Swayze which was falling behind its main competition, CBS’s
Douglas Edwards with the News.
Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009)
Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces
Network stations and 300 newspapers, reaching as many as 24 million
people a week. He was best remembered for his famous The Rest of
the Story segments. Harvey appeared on a Gallup pole for the most
admired men in America.
John Belmont
David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003)
David Brinkley was a TV newscaster for 50 years and the partner of
Chet Huntley. He won ten Emmy Awards three George Foster Peabody
Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his career. He
served in the United States Army for two years and was a journalist for
a local newspaper.
From left: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on the NBC news set in 1956
KGW-TV News reporter Katherine Cook
The 51st Annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards were held in Seattle on
Saturday night and the Emmy for "Feature News Report – Light Feature" went
to Portland’s Katherine L. Cook from KGW News Channel 8 for her story titled
”Shot In The Dark”, a true story about a blind photographer who takes all of his
pictures based on what he hears around him, thus the title "Shot In The Dark”.
