Bob Schieffer

Bob Lloyd Schieffer ( born February 25, 1937 in Austin, Texas ) is an American television journalist. Since 1969 he works for CBS. From 1973 to 1977 he was anchorman of the CBS Sunday Night News, then to 1996 Anchorman for the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News. In the presidential election campaigns in 2004, 2008 and 2012, Schieffer moderated each of the last of the televised debates between the candidates.

Biography

Early years

Bob Lloyd Schieffer was born on 25 February 1937 in the Texan capital of Austin and grew up in Fort Worth, also in Texas, on. There, he studied journalism at Texas Christian University. After graduating in 1959, Schieffer served three years in the U.S. Air Force. He then worked for the newspaper Fort Worth Star-Telegram, on the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy brought out four special editions thanks to him. Schieffer had brought Marguerite Oswald, the mother of the alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to Dallas and worked as her companion with entering the police station, where their son was kept in custody. Only after several hours, he was unmasked by an FBI agent as a reporter. In 1965, Schieffer told the first employee of a Texas newspaper from Vietnam. A little later, he moved from the newspaper to the local TV station WBAP - TV (now KXAS - TV), where he worked as a reporter and host of the 22 - clock - news. About a stopover at the Washington local stations WTTG - TV came Schieffer 1969 statewide Network Columbia Broadcasting Corporation (CBS).

Careers at CBS

Schieffer worked from 1972 to 1977 as host of the CBS Sunday Evening News and then to 1996 as host of the CBS Saturday Evening News. Between 1970 and 1974 he was the reporting of Defense of the United States allocated from 1974 to 1979, the CBS correspondent for the White House and in 1982 he was in addition to his Moderator activity chief correspondent for Washington. Since 1991, Schieffer moderated the weekly interview program Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer, which is always aired Sunday mornings. Similar to the broadcast Press Club journalists and guests discuss current issues in the there internal and external policies. After Schieffer from his work as a news anchor (News Anchor) was excreted at CBS in 1996, he was after the controversial resignation of Dan Rather in 2005, once chief moderator. One and a half years he led them through the week daily editions of the CBS Evening News.

Bob Schieffer moderated the most recent of the three televised debates in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election ( George W. Bush and John Kerry ), 2008 ( Barack Obama and John McCain ) and 2012 ( Barack Obama and Mitt Romney ).

Private life

Schieffer is the older brother of Tom Schieffer, a friend and former business partner of ex- President George W. Bush. Tom Schieffer was 2001-2005 U.S. Ambassador to Australia, then to early 2009 in Japan.

Bob Schieffer married 1967 Patricia Penrose Bishop. They live in Washington and have two daughters and three granddaughters.

In 2003, Schieffer survived a bladder cancer disease.

Publications

Schieffer has written four books: The Acting President (1989, with Gary Paul Gates ), This Just In: What I Could not Tell You on TV ( 2003), Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News broadcast ( 2004), and Bob Schieffer 's America (2008).

Awards

Throughout his career, Schieffer has received numerous awards. This includes six Emmys, including one for Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

The Department of Journalism at Texas Christian University was named after Schieffer in 2005 and is now known as Bob Schieffer School of Journalism.