Dan Rather
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Rather at the 2005 Peabody Awards
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Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. October 31, 1931 Wharton, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | Sam Houston State University |
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| Years active | 1950–present |
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| Spouse(s) | Jean Goebel (m. 1957) |
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| Website | www |
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS's 60 Minutes. Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving President George W. Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard and subsequently left CBS Evening News in 2005, and he left the network altogether after 43 years in 2006.
Along with Peter Jennings at ABC News and Tom Brokaw at NBC News, Rather was one of the "Big Three" news anchors in the U.S. during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The three all hosted their network's flagship nightly news programs for over 20 years, and all three started and retired within a year of one another.
Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. /ˈræðər/ was born on October 31, 1931, in Wharton County, Texas, the son of Daniel Irvin Rather, Sr., a ditch digger, and the former Byrl Veda Page. The Rathers moved to Houston, where Dan attended Love Elementary School and Hamilton Middle School. He graduated in 1950 from John H. Reagan High School in Houston. In 1953, he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Sam Houston State University where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Houstonian. At Sam Houston, he was a member of the Caballeros, the founding organization of the Epsilon Psi chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity. After obtaining his undergraduate degree, Rather briefly attended South Texas College of Law in Houston, which awarded him an honorary Juris Doctor in 1990. In 1954, Rather enlisted in the United States Marine Corps but was soon discharged because he had rheumatic fever as a child.
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