Douglas Edwards is best remembered for the sinking of the Andrea Doria. He and a film crew arrived in an airplane just in time to see the ship sink. The film was quickly flown first to Rhode Island, then driven up to Boston, developed there, and fed to the network as soon as that film had been developed. That evening, a portion of it led Edwards' "CBS Evening News".
One of the later group of "Murrow's Boys", dating to 1940; possibly the greatest assemblage of reporters ever. The originals included Eric Sevareid, Bill Shirer, Charles Collingwood, Bill Downs, Tom Grandin, Howard K Smith, Larry LeSurer, Winston Bartlett, Richard C Hottelet, Cecil Brown and Mary Patterson. Edwards joined during WWII; Cronkite worked for United Press and finally joined CBS in 1950.
They quit doing the morning Newsbreak some time ago, I'm not exactly sure when. The afternoon Newsbreak was last done in 2009 at the end of the finale of Guiding Light.
Andrew Allen Douglas Edwards began hosting the nightly CBS TV newscast in late 1946, about a year and a half before CBS began sending out its programs to stations outside of the New York City area. Douglas Edwards replaced Milo Boulton as CBS’ news host and was at least the tenth person who hosted the CBS TV newscast since CBS began TV broadcasting in July of 1941.
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He was the news voice of my childhood back when news was honest and America was on track
And the great thing is, Anthony Mason was a reporter on the final radio newscast Douglas did on 4/1/1988
Aww thank-you for airing this. I found out this was my fathers cousin through find-a grave. Very awesome.
So, is your surname Edwards?
Douglas Edwards is best remembered for the sinking of the Andrea Doria.
He and a film crew arrived
in an airplane just in time to see the ship sink. The film was quickly flown first to Rhode Island, then driven up to Boston, developed there, and fed to the network as soon as that film had been developed.
That evening, a portion of it led Edwards' "CBS Evening News".
Edwards. Edward R Murrow, Cronkite, Eric Severied. That level of intellectual journalistic gravitas no longer exists.
Am I wrong but weren't they all from CBS, hummmmm.???
Miss those cbs news legends
Now this is a newsman.
A class act all the way!
One of the later group of "Murrow's Boys", dating to 1940; possibly the greatest assemblage of reporters ever. The originals included Eric Sevareid, Bill Shirer, Charles Collingwood, Bill Downs, Tom Grandin, Howard K Smith, Larry LeSurer, Winston Bartlett, Richard C Hottelet, Cecil Brown and Mary Patterson. Edwards joined during WWII; Cronkite worked for United Press and finally joined CBS in 1950.
He was the first Native American to star in broadcasting..outstanding journalist...very much missed today
Then Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Scott Pelley, Jeff Glor, and now Norah O’Donnell. I still watch David Muir though on ABC though
Good!🙏🙏
Douglas Edwards died of bladder cancer on October 13th 1990, aged 73.
I remember him, coming on at noon in the fifties
Don't figure out my age, but I remember Walter Cronkite's first CBS News appearance.
Does CBS still do the Newsbreak show?
They quit doing the morning Newsbreak some time ago, I'm not exactly sure when. The afternoon Newsbreak was last done in 2009 at the end of the finale of Guiding Light.
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Andrew Allen Douglas Edwards began hosting the nightly CBS TV newscast in late 1946, about a year and a half before CBS began sending out its programs to stations outside of the New York City area. Douglas Edwards replaced Milo Boulton as CBS’ news host and was at least the tenth person who hosted the CBS TV newscast since CBS began TV broadcasting in July of 1941.