Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990)

Before Walter Cronkite, there was Douglas Edwards. He was chosen to
host CBS’s first nightly news broadcast from 1948 to 1962. The program
was later titled CBS Evening News. Edwards joined CBS Radio in 1942,
eventually becoming anchor for the regular evening newscast The World
Today as well as World News Today on Sunday afternoons. He worked
previously in radio in Atlanta, Georgia and Detroit, Michigan.

From left: Producer Don Hewitt and Douglas Edwards

Douglas Edwards’ Final CBS Broadcast, April 1, 1988  

 
  

                
                 Douglas Edwards on CBS Radio

          
            Camille Bohannon

 
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is 68 today

Kevin Tighe (Jon Kevin Fishburn)

Tighe is best known as Fireman Roy DeSoto on the NBC – TV hit, Emergency!
(1972-1977). He was also in Another 47 Hrs. (1990) and What’s Eating Gilbert
Grape (1993).

                 
                    Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr.) 

                       (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006)

Country singer Buck Owens and his band the Buckaroos, are known for
pioneering   the ‘Bakersfield Sound.’ He released ten #1 country albums
from 1963 to 1968. He hosted the western TV series Hee Haw along with
Roy Clark from 1969 to 1986 on CBS.

Camille Bohannon