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Douglas Edwards With the News CBS 1952
Douglas Edwards on "Douglas Edwards With the News". This was the first CBS network evening news television program

The CBS Evening News is a daily evening newscast on CBS. It is the "flagship" program of the CBS News division. The program began in 1948 as "Douglas Edwards with the News." They were sponsored by General Motors. In 1963 the name was changed to the "CBS Evening News". It is currently anchored by Scott Pelley. He became the anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News in 2011.

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  • 1952 Douglas Edwards with the news

    Edwards on set in 1952

  • Douglas Edwards and children 1955

    Edwards at home in 1955 with his three children: (from left) Lynn, Donna and Bobby

  • CBS News Anchor, Walter Cronkite, Interviews President John F. Kennedy

    Cronkite interviews President John F. Kennedy to inaugurate the first half-hour nightly news broadcast in 1963

  • Walter Cronkite In Vietnam2

    Cronkite reporting on location during the Vietnam War in 1968

  • Dan Rather and Ronald Reagan 1982

    Rather (right) with president Ronald Reagan in 1982

  • Dan Rather (8157881123)

    Rather during an interview with Extra at the 2002 Peabody Awards

  • Bob Schieffer

    Schieffer in April 2006

  • Couric

    Couric in 2007

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    Couric with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Mosul, Iraq, April 8, 2011

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    Pelley interviews President Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Receiving Room of the White House in 2011

  • Scott Pelley at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards

    Pelley at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards in 2013

  • Pelley 2014

    Pelley on set in 2014

  • Secretary Kerry Speaks on 'CBS Evening News' Set in New York With Anchor Pelley Before Interview Focused on Iran Nuclear Deal (20494395405)

    Pelley interviews Secretary of State John Kerry in 2015

  • Jeff Glor in Singapore

    Glor in Singapore in 2018

  • Norah O’Donnell 2019 (cropped)

    O'Donnell in July 2019

  • Secretary Blinken Participants in an Interview on 60 Minutes (51109588529)

    O'Donnell speaks to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US State Department in April 2021

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