Television news producer and executive. Producer-director, CBS (1948-2004); producer-director , "Eyewitness to History"; executive producer, "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" (1961-1964); creator and executive producer, "60 Minutes" (1968-2004); author, Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television (2001); Minute by Minute (1985).
Oral History interview of Don Hewitt focuses mainly on the Nixon-Kennedy debates, but also covers Kennedy's use of media personnel in his administration, Cronkite's interview of John F. Kennedy, and Kennedy's assassination.