Edwards, Douglas

CBS Network: News anchor from 1948 through 1988 and anchored the nightly news from 1948 through 1962.

By the time he joined CBS in 1942, he already had 10 years of broadcast experience. Among the many people he interviewed were Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He was one of the first television reporters to work on location, providing an on-the-scene report when Puerto Rican nationalists shot five Congressmen in the House of Representatives in 1954 and an exclusive eyewitness account of the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria in 1956. That year, Edwards won the George Foster Peabody Award for “best television news.” ¹

WXYZ: Anchorman.  Briefly worked at WXYZ for two years in the late 1938s. He worked along side of Mike Wallace during that period.

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References:

• Encyclopedia of Television News by Michael D. Murray, p. 68
• Alumni of The University of Alabama.

• Encyclopedia of Television News edited by Michael D. Murray

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