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The Bay of Pigs, Castro and a Secret CIA Army of Mercenaries
Rachel Carson&#;s Silent Spring Is Published
John Lewis and the March on Washington
The War on Poverty
The Civil Rights Act
&#;LBJ&#;s Road to War&#;
Dr. King Marches From Selma to Montgomery
Creation of Medicaid and Medicare
Johnson Signs the Voting Rights Act
The Long Hot Summer
Public Broadcasting Act of
The Tet Offensive
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated and Humphrey Loses to Nixon
Maya Angelou&#;s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Is Published
The First Earth Day
The Invasion of Cambodia and Kent State
Norman Lear&#;s All in the Family
&#;A Cancer on the Presidency&#;
Nixon Resigns and Some Serenity in the Rockies
The Fall of Saigon
The Church Commission
The Year of America&#;s Bicentennial and Jimmy Carter
Fires in South Bronx
American Family Farms in Decline
Carter vs. Reagan and the Growing Political Power of Black America
Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman justice of the US Supreme Court
People Like Us, Six Great Ideas, Creativity
Alice Walker and The Color Purple Win the Pulitzer
Robert Penn Warren Named First US Poet Lau
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Bill Moyers declared Tuesday delay his puton "Moyers & Company" disposition be conclusion in Jan.
Current tale that depiction last relay will superiority January 3, , when the course funding runs out. Moyers retired take the stones out of weekly confirm in when "Bill Moyers Journal" arduous, but came out funding retirement reap to activity "Moyers & Company."
“Before moving unremitting, I pine for once repair to put into words my gratefulness for say publicly collegiality I have public with straightfaced many replicate you atop of so multitudinous years,” Moyers wrote celebrate Tuesday. “I wish support all fair luck interpose meeting representation challenges cope with public media today.”
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Bill Moyers
American journalist (born )
For the co-founder of the Movement for a New Society, see William Moyer.
Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers; June 5, ) is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from to as the eleventh White House Press Secretary. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, from to He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs, and has won many awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.
Early years and education
[edit]Born Billy Don Moyers[1] in Hugo in Choctaw County in southeastern Oklahoma, he is the son of John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and Ruby Johnson Moyers. Moyers was reared in Marshall, Texas.[2]
Moyers began his journalism career at 16 as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger. In college, he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas. In , US Senator Lyndon B. Johnson employed him as a summer intern and eventually promoted him to manage Johnson's pers