- Father of Steven Hewitt.
- Battling pancreatic cancer [March 19, 2009].
- Eight-time Emmy Award winner. Inducted into America's Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1990.
- Retired as executive producer of 60 Minutes (1968) in 2004.
- Children with Frankie Childers: Jilian (stepdaughter), Lisa.
- Children with Mary Weaver: Jeffrey, Steven.
- He joined CBS News in 1948. There, he directed the first network TV newscast (May 3, 1948). He pioneered the use of cue cards by anchors, as well as the use of words superimposed on the TV screen during a newscast.
- He served in the merchant marines during WWII.
- He dropped out of college to become a copy boy at the New York Herald Tribune.
- Is portrayed by Philip Baker Hall in The Insider (1999).
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