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Dan Rather

Age: 78
Height: 5' 11"

Birth Place: Wharton, Texas, USA
Born: Oct. 31st, 1931

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Dan Rather's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
48 Hours Mystery	Dan Rather - &hellip
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed	Dan Rather
60 Minutes II	Dan Rather - &hellip
CBS Evening News	Himself - Anc&hellip
Dan Rather Reports	Dan Rather

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Rather was born in Wharton, Texas and graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, where he wanted to play football. He worked at local radio station KSAM in Huntsville during his college years. Following graduation he worked for radio station KTRK in Houston and went to work for KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston. In 1961, he covered Hurricane Carla for KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas, and it caught the eye of CBS News executives, who hired him in 1962. He was in Dallas on November 22, 1963 and was CBS' lead anchor from Dallas during the coverage of the Kennedy assassination. In 1975, he became co-anchor of "60 Minutes" (1968) and in 1981 was selected to replace Walter Cronkite as anchor of "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" (1981), where he remained as anchor until 2005. The Communications Building on the campus of Sam Houston State University is named for Rather.

TRIVIA:

His Alma Mater, Sam Houston State University, was originally named Sam Houston Normal Institute, and later, Sam Houston State Teachers College. It was founded for the purpose of training teachers, and to this day, has the reputation for having one of the best educator preparation courses in the state.
Graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where the communications building is named for him.
Born at 6:13pm-CST.
(November 2004) Announced that he is stepping down as anchor of "The CBS Evening News" in March 2005, on the 24th anniversary of his first broadcast as anchor. He will remain with CBS News as a correspondent for "60 Minutes Sunday" and "60 Minutes Wednesday."
During CBS's live coverage of the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, he saw some men with no identification or badges trying to forcibly remove what appeared to be a Georgia delegate from the building. When he attempted to interview the candidate, one of the men punched him on camera.
In 1986, he was chased and kicked onto a Manhattan sidewalk by William Tager, a man who kept asking, "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"
On September 11, 1987, he became so furious at the prospect of having his CBS News broadcast delayed by a U.S. Tennis match, that he walked off the set. When he did not return in time for the start of the news, CBS aired a blank screen for over five minutes. The incident was later recalled during his January 1988 interview with then-Vice President 'George Bush (I)' (qv); when Rather questioned him about the Iran-Contra scandal, Bush asked Rather if he would like to have his career judged by the blank screen incident.
Attended Hamilton Junior School in Houston, Texas.