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York">Bridgehampton, New York</a>, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> (withdrew for military service)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer">Television producer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1942–2009</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employer</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a> (1948–2009)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Creator of <i><a href="/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes">60 Minutes</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Mary Weaver (1945–1963; divorced; 2 children)<br /><a href="/wiki/Frankie_Hewitt" title="Frankie Hewitt">Frankie Teague Childers</a> (1963–1974; divorced; 2 children)<br /><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Berger" title="Marilyn Berger">Marilyn Berger</a> (1979–2009; his death)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow_Award_(WSU)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward R. Murrow Award (WSU)">Edward R. Murrow Award</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Peabody_Award_winners_(1980-1989)#1988" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Peabody Award winners (1980-1989)">Peabody Award</a>, <a href="/wiki/Producers_Guild_of_America_Awards_1992" class="mw-redirect" title="Producers Guild of America Awards 1992">Producers Guild of America Award</a>, <a href="/wiki/Television_Hall_of_Fame" title="Television Hall of Fame">Television Hall of Fame</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Donald Shepard Hewitt</b><sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (December 14, 1922 – August 19, 2009) was an American <a href="/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer">television news producer</a> and executive, best known for creating the <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> television news magazine <i><a href="/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes">60 Minutes</a></i> in 1968, which at the time of his death was the longest-running <a href="/wiki/Prime-time" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime-time">prime-time</a> broadcast on American television.<sup id="cite_ref-death_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-death-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under Hewitt's leadership, <i>60 Minutes</i> was the only news program ever rated as the <a href="/wiki/Nielsen_ratings#Annual_Top-Rated_Shows" class="mw-redirect" title="Nielsen ratings">nation's top-ranked</a> television program, an achievement it accomplished five times.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2002_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hewitt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewitt was born in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="New York City, New York">New York City, New York</a>, the son of Frieda (née Pike) and Ely S. Hewitt (changed from Hurwitz or Horowitz).<sup id="cite_ref-Tablet_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tablet-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father was a <a href="/wiki/Russian_Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Jew">Jewish</a> immigrant from <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, and his mother's family was of <a href="/wiki/German_Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="German Jewish">German Jewish</a> descent.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tablet_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tablet-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt's family moved to <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, shortly after his birth, where his father worked as a <a href="/wiki/Classified_advertising" title="Classified advertising">classified advertising</a> manager for the <i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Herald_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Herald American">Boston Herald American</a></i>. His family later lived in <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee,_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee, Wisconsin">Milwaukee, Wisconsin</a>. He graduated from <a href="/wiki/New_Rochelle_High_School" title="New Rochelle High School">New Rochelle High School</a>, in <a href="/wiki/New_Rochelle,_New_York" title="New Rochelle, New York">New Rochelle, New York</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="College_and_early_career">College and early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hewitt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: College and early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewitt attended <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> and started his <a href="/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism">journalism</a> career in 1942 as head <a href="/wiki/Copyboy" class="mw-redirect" title="Copyboy">copyboy</a> for the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Herald_Tribune" title="New York Herald Tribune">New York Herald Tribune</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He joined the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Merchant_Marine_Academy" title="United States Merchant Marine Academy">United States Merchant Marine Academy</a> in 1943 and served as a journalist for <i><a href="/wiki/Stars_and_Stripes_(newspaper)" title="Stars and Stripes (newspaper)">Stars and Stripes</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt later returned to sea as an <a href="/wiki/Ensign_(rank)" title="Ensign (rank)">ensign</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_Reserve" title="United States Navy Reserve">Naval Reserve</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> ended in 1945, Hewitt returned to his job as <a href="/wiki/Copyboy" class="mw-redirect" title="Copyboy">copyboy</a> for the <i>Tribune</i>, then worked for <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">The Associated Press</a> at a bureau in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>. However, his wife Mary Weaver—whom he married while working in Memphis—wanted to go to New York City, so he moved back.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT-1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Back in New York City, Hewitt started working at the <a href="/wiki/E.W._Scripps_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="E.W. Scripps Company">E.W. Scripps Company</a>-owned photo agency <a href="/wiki/ACME_Newspictures" title="ACME Newspictures">ACME Newspictures</a>, which was later merged into co-owned news service <a href="/wiki/United_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="United Press">United Press</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_at_CBS_News">Career at CBS News</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hewitt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career at CBS News"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewitt soon received a lucrative offer at the CBS <a href="/wiki/Television_network" class="mw-redirect" title="Television network">television network</a>, which was seeking someone who had "picture experience" to help with production of television broadcast.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He began working at its news division, <a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a>, in 1948 and was <a href="/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer">producer</a>-<a href="/wiki/Television_director" title="Television director">director</a> of the network's evening-news broadcast with <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Edwards" title="Douglas Edwards">Douglas Edwards</a> for fourteen years. </p><p> He was also the first director of <i><a href="/wiki/See_It_Now" title="See It Now">See It Now</a>,</i> co-produced by host <a href="/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow" title="Edward R. Murrow">Edward R. Murrow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fred_W._Friendly" title="Fred W. Friendly">Fred W. Friendly</a> which started in 1951; his use of "two film projectors cutting back and forth breaks up the monotony of a <a href="/wiki/Pundit_(expert)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pundit (expert)">talking head</a>, improves editing, and shapes future news broadcasts."<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2002_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1956, Hewitt was the only one to capture on film the final moments of the <a href="/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria" title="SS Andrea Doria">SS Andrea Doria</a> as it sank and disappeared under the water.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2002_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He directed the televised production of the first <a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election#Debates" title="1960 United States presidential election">1960 U.S. presidential candidate debate</a> between Senator <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> and Vice-president <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard M. Nixon</a> on September 26, 1960, at the CBS studios in <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>. It was the first <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election debates">presidential candidate debate</a> ever televised. He later became <a href="/wiki/Executive_producer" title="Executive producer">executive producer</a> of the <i><a href="/wiki/CBS_Evening_News" title="CBS Evening News">CBS Evening News</a> with <a href="/wiki/Walter_Cronkite" title="Walter Cronkite">Walter Cronkite</a></i>, helming the broadcast of <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>'s assassination as the story developed.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></p><table class="infobox" style="clear: left; float:left;margin:0 1.5em 1.5em 0;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?55898-1/life-career-don-hewitt">"Life and Career of Don Hewitt", April 5, 1994</a>, <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> He then launched the eight-time <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Award</a>-winning show <i>60 Minutes</i>. <a href="/wiki/1977%E2%80%9378_United_States_network_television_schedule" title="1977–78 United States network television schedule">Within ten years</a>, the show reached the top 10 in viewership, a position it maintained for 21 of the following 22 seasons, until the <a href="/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000_United_States_network_television_schedule" title="1999–2000 United States network television schedule">1999–2000 season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2002_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hewitt was a primary figure in the televising of a 1996 <i>60 Minutes</i> documentary on the <a href="/wiki/Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry">tobacco industry</a> scandal involving the tobacco company <a href="/wiki/Brown_%26_Williamson" title="Brown & Williamson">Brown & Williamson</a>, in which the program eventually reported the allegations of whistleblower <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Wigand" title="Jeffrey Wigand">Jeffrey Wigand</a>. Initially wary of a lawsuit, Hewitt sided with CBS News management and killed the Wigand story by censoring the interview.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After blowback, a more complete presentation of the story was allowed to air, but the handling of the issue remained "a dark, sorry period in the otherwise virtuous life of <i>60 Minutes</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The overall scandal was the inspiration for the 1999 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Insider_(film)" title="The Insider (film)">The Insider</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hewitt was portrayed in the film by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Baker_Hall" title="Philip Baker Hall">Philip Baker Hall</a>. </p><p>Declining ratings at <i>60 Minutes</i>—after decades of being in the top 10, the show had dropped in rankings to number 20—contributed to what became a public debate in 2002 about whether it was time for CBS to replace Hewitt at <i>60 Minutes</i>. According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Fager" title="Jeff Fager">Jeff Fager</a>, producer of <i><a href="/wiki/60_Minutes_II" title="60 Minutes II">60 Minutes II</a></i>, was being floated as a possible replacement,<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2002_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> speculation that proved to be accurate. The show was still generating an estimated profit of more than $20 million a year, but the decline in viewership and profit meant the show could no longer "operate as an island unto itself, often thumbing its nose at management while demanding huge salaries and perquisites."<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2002_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within a couple of years, Hewitt stepped aside as executive producer at the age of 81, signing a ten-year contract with CBS to be an executive producer-at-large for <a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2010, <i>60 Minutes</i> dedicated an entire show to the story and memory of Hewitt.<sup id="cite_ref-60_Minutes_Presents:_a_Tribute_to_Don_Hewitt_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60_Minutes_Presents:_a_Tribute_to_Don_Hewitt-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, an internal <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> investigation found that in the 1990s Hewitt had been accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a former CBS employee over a period of years. CBS determined that the employee's allegations were credible and by 2018 had paid her over $5 million in settlements in exchange for her silence.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hewitt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hewitt was married three times: </p> <ul><li>Mary Weaver with whom he had two sons: Jeffrey and Steven.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankie_Hewitt" title="Frankie Hewitt">Frankie Teague Hewitt</a> - American theater producer and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Ford%27s_Theatre_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Ford's Theatre Society">Ford's Theatre Society</a> who was responsible for restoring and reopening the historic site as a working theater. They had a daughter: Lisa Gabrielle Hewitt Cassara, former coordinating producer of the syndicated television show "<a href="/wiki/A_Current_Affair_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="A Current Affair (U.S. TV series)">A Current Affair</a>";<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he adopted her daughter Jilian Childers from a previous marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Berger" title="Marilyn Berger">Marilyn Berger</a> - American broadcast and newspaper journalist.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through Berger, Hewitt is the great-uncle of <a href="/wiki/Rob_Fishman" title="Rob Fishman">Rob Fishman</a>.</li></ul> <p>In March 2009, Hewitt was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer" title="Pancreatic cancer">pancreatic cancer</a> from which he died on August 19, 2009, at his home in <a href="/wiki/Bridgehampton,_New_York" title="Bridgehampton, New York">Bridgehampton</a>, New York.<sup id="cite_ref-death_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-death-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BauderD_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BauderD-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hewitt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1987: Hewitt received the <a href="/wiki/Paul_White_(journalist)" title="Paul White (journalist)">Paul White</a> Award, <a href="/wiki/Radio_Television_Digital_News_Association" title="Radio Television Digital News Association">Radio Television Digital News Association</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1988: In addition to several <a href="/wiki/Peabody_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Peabody Award">Peabody Awards</a> given to <i>60 Minutes</i>, Hewitt was given a personal <a href="/wiki/Peabody_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Peabody Award">Peabody Award</a>, for his accomplishments that have "touch[ed] the lives of just about every American."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1989: Inducted into The Television Academy Hall Of Fame</li> <li>1992: Hewitt won the <a href="/wiki/Walter_Cronkite_Award_for_Excellence_in_Journalism" title="Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism">Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1993: Hewitt and <i>60 Minutes</i> were elected to the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Broadcasters_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame">National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt2002_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt2002-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008: Hewitt was honored with Washington State University's <a href="/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow_Award_(WSU)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward R. Murrow Award (WSU)">Edward R. Murrow Award</a> for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcast Journalism.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hewitt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?163061-1/tell-story"><i>Booknotes</i> interview with Hewitt on <i>Tell Me a Story</i>, April 1, 2001</a>, <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In 1985, <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House</a> published <i>Minute by Minute</i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0394546415" title="Special:BookSources/0394546415">0394546415</a>), a look at the history of <i>60 Minutes</i>. In 2001, <a href="/wiki/PublicAffairs" title="PublicAffairs">PublicAffairs</a> published <i>Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television</i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1586480170" title="Special:BookSources/1586480170">1586480170</a>), in which Hewitt chronicles his life as a newsman. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Don_Hewitt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-bloomberg1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bloomberg1_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarris2009" class="citation news cs1">Harris, Kathryn (August 19, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=apwpUP27d8fM">"Don Hewitt, Creator, First Producer of '60 Minutes,' Dies at 86"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P." title="Bloomberg L.P.">Bloomberg</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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