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David Brinkley

David Brinkley é mais conhecido por Explicando: O Poder do Voto, The Seventies, The Sixties e NBC Nightly News. David Brinkley nasceu em 10 de julho de 1920. David Brinkley morreu em 11 de junho de 2003, aos 82 anos.

Nascimento: 10 de julho de 1920
Local de nascimento: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Falecimento: 11 de junho de 2003 (82 anos)

Biografia

David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.