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Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
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| NBC
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Award for the White Paper series of news specials
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| The Shari Lewis Show
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| The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report
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| CBS
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Award for coverage of the 1960 Winter and Summer Olympics
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| CBS Reports, for Harvest of Shame
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| G.E. College Bowl
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| The Fabulous Fifties, a revue produced by Leland Hayward
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| Dr. Frank Stanton (CBS)
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Personal Award for Dr. Stanton's actions that led to the 1960 presidential debates
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| Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.
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Institutional Award for the programs Look Up and Live, Frontiers of Faith, Pilgrimage, and Talk-back
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| KPFK Radio/Los Angeles, CA
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Separate Institutional Awards for the stations' locally produced programming
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| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN
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| WCKT-TV/Miami, FL
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| WOOD Radio and WOOD-TV/Grand Rapids, MI
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| Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network
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Institutional Award for the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts
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| WQXR/New York, NY
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Musical Spectaculars
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| Irene Wicker (WNYC/New York, NY)
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Personal Award for Wicker's work on the children's radio program The Singing Lady
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| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
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| WNYC/New York, NY
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The Reader's Almanac and Teen Age Book Talk
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| BBC Television
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An Age of Kings, with recognition to National Educational Television, Metropolitan Broadcasting, individual stations, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Humble Oil
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| NBC
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David Brinkley's Journal
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| The Bob Newhart Show
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| Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait, narrated by Martin Gabel with Lee J. Cobb as Van Gogh
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| ABC
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Expedition!
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| Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and executive producer Milton Fruchtman
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Award for coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and its summary documentary Verdict for Tomorrow: The Eichmann Trial on Television
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| CBS and Walter Lippman
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Institutional Award for television contribution to international understanding
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| Fred W. Friendly (CBS)
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Personal Award for Friendly's work in television journalism
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| WFMT/Chicago, IL
|
Institutional Award for fine arts entertainment
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| WRUL (Worldwide Broadcasting)/New York, NY
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Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding for the station's coverage (in English and Spanish) of the United Nations' General Assembly proceedings
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| KSL-TV/Salt Lake City, UT
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Let Freedom Ring, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, starring Richard Boone, Laraine Day, Howard Keel, and Dan O'Herlihy and narrated by Richard L. Evans
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| Newton N. Minow
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Personal Award to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
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| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| CBS
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A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy
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| Carol Burnett (CBS)
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Personal Award for Burnett's comedic performances
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| Walter Cronkite (CBS News)
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Personal Award for Cronkite's work on The Twentieth Century, CBS Reports, and other work for CBS News
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| ABC
|
Adlai Stevenson Reports
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| WJR/Detroit, MI
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Adventures in Good Music
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| Official Films Inc.
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Biography
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| WNDT/New York, NY
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Books for Our Time, hosted by August Heckscher II
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| WMAQ/Chicago, IL
|
Carnival of Books
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| NBC
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The DuPont Show of the Week
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| Exploring
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| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
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| NBC Radio Network
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The Eternal Light
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| William R. McAndrew (NBC News)
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Personal Award for McAndrew's "vision and leadership" as NBC News' Executive VP
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| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA
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Elliot Norton Reviews, hosted by Elliot Norton
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| Television Information Office and National Association of Broadcasters
|
Institutional Award for the organizations' study of locally produced children's programming which resulted in the book For the Young Viewer: Television Programming for Children… at the Local Level
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| WQXR/New York, NY
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Institutional Award for the station's news presentations in the midst of the New York City newspaper strike
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| KPIX-TV/San Francisco, CA
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San Francisco Pageant, a series of historical documentaries profiling the city of San Francisco
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| KNX/Los Angeles, CA
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Science Editor, produced by the University of California Extension[1]
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| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
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| CBS
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A Charlie Brown Christmas[4]
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| CBS Reports, for the report "KKK - The Invisible Empire"[5]
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| The Mystery of Stonehenge
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| National Drivers Test
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| CBS Radio
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Music 'Til Dawn
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| CBS and NBC
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Joint Institutional Award for the specials My Name Is Barbra (CBS), The Julie Andrews Show (NBC), and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (NBC)
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| ABC
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A Visit to Washington with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America
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| KTLA/Los Angeles, CA
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Institutional Award for the station's coverage of the Watts riots
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| National Educational Television
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Institutional Award for the network's "distinguished performance in educational broadcasting," specifically citing History of the Negro People, American Crises, and Changing World: South African Essay
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| WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN
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Institutional Award for the station's public service coverage during natural disasters
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| Xerox Corporation
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Institutional Award for its promoting of "international understanding" through presentations of "The Making of the President - 1964, Let My People Go, The Louvre, and the illuminating series on the United Nations"
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| Elmo Ellis (WSB Radio/Atlanta, GA)
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Personal Award for Ellis' editorials, book reviews, and other features for WSB
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| Frank McGee (NBC)
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Personal Award for McGee's special event news coverage
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| Morley Safer (CBS News)
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Personal Award for Safer's reports from the Vietnam War
|
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
|
| ABC
|
A Christmas Memory
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| The Wide World of Sports
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| WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI
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A Polish Millennium Concert
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| NBC
|
American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States
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| The Bell Telephone Hour
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| Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk
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| The World of Stuart Little[6]
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| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio
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The Dorothy Gordon Youth Forum, for "Youth and Narcotics - Who Has the Answer?"
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| WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL
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Kup's Show, for its presentation on the dangers of narcotics
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| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL
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Artists' Showcase
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| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA
|
Assignment Four
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| CBS
|
National Geographic Specials
|
| Tom H. John (CBS)
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Personal Award for John's art and set design on the CBS specials Color Me Barbra, Death of a Salesman, and The Strollin' Twenties
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| CBS News
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CBS Reports, for "The Poisoned Air"
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| Harry Reasoner (CBS News)
|
Personal Award for Reasoner's reportage and essay presentations
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| WLIB/New York, NY
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Community Opinion, a program that provided platforms for and information to residents of New York's Harlem neighborhood
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| National Educational Television
|
Institutional Award for excellence in educational television programming, citing NET Playhouse, NET Journal, and U.S.A.: The Arts
|
| Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network)
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Personal Award for Newman's commentary work
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| Recipient |
Area of Excellence
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| ABC
|
Award for coverage of the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics, highlighting the work of Roone Arledge and Chris Schenkel
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| Institutional Award for its presentation of The Sense of Wonder, How Life Begins, Sharks: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The Road to Gettysburg, Hemingway's Spain, and The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man’s Dream, documentaries with "exceptional inventiveness"
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| CBS News
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CBS Reports: Hunger in America (reported by Charles Kuralt and David Culhane[7])
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| WJR/Detroit, MI
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Kaleidoscope, hosted by Mike Whorf
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| National Educational Television
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood[8]
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| Playhouse
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| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc.
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One Nation Indivisible (hosted by Roderick MacLeish[9])
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| Charles Kuralt
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Personal Award for Kuralt's work on CBS News' On the Road
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| Dr. Leonard Reiffel (WEEI/Boston, MA)
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Personal Award for Dr Reiffel's work on WEEI's The World Tomorrow
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| Robert Cromie and WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL
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Book Beat
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| NBC Radio
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Second Sunday
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| WQXR/New York, NY
|
Steinway Hall
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