Bill Moyers was born on Billy Don Moyers, June 5,1934 and is an American journalist and political commentator.
39 Facts About Bill Moyers
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Bill Moyers was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, from 1967 to 1974.
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Bill Moyers worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years.
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Bill Moyers has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured US news media.
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Bill Moyers began his journalism career at 16 as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger.
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Bill Moyers was a Baptist pastor in Weir in Williamson County, near Austin.
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Bill Moyers planned to enter a Doctor of Philosophy program in American Studies at the University of Texas.
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The Peace Corps was established by President Kennedy by Executive Order in March 1961, but it was up to top aide Sargent Shriver and Bill Moyers to find the funding to actually establish the organization.
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Bill Moyers was a key player in the creation of the public broadcasting system.
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Bill Moyers served on this committee, which released its report 'Public Television: A Program for Action,' in 1967.
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Bill Moyers was influential in creating the legislation that would fulfill the committee's recommendations.
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When Lyndon B Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination, Moyers became a special assistant to Johnson, serving from 1963 to 1967.
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Bill Moyers played a key role in organizing and supervising the 1964 Great Society legislative task forces and was a principal architect of Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign.
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Bill Moyers acted as the President's informal chief of staff from October 1964 until 1966.
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Bill Moyers said he had a different recollection of the telephone conversation.
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Under the direction of President Johnson, Bill Moyers gave J Edgar Hoover the go-ahead to discredit Martin Luther King, played a part in the wiretapping of King, discouraged the American embassy in Oslo from assisting King on his Nobel Peace Prize trip, and worked to prevent King from challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
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Bill Moyers approved of the infamous "Daisy Ad" against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.
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Safer says that Bill Moyers was "if not a key player, certainly a key bystander" in the incident.
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Bill Moyers stated that his hard-hitting coverage of conservative presidents Reagan and Bush was behind Safer's 1990 allegations.
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Bill Moyers felt such a continuation of the conflict would tear the country apart.
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Bill Moyers served as publisher for the Long Island, New York, daily newspaper Newsday from 1967 to 1970.
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The conservative publication had been unsuccessful, but Bill Moyers led the paper in a progressive direction, bringing in leading writers such as Pete Hamill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Saul Bellow, and adding new features and more investigative reporting and analysis.
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Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative Times-Mirror Company over the attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale, even though Bill Moyers offered $10 million more than the Times-Mirror purchase price; Bill Moyers resigned a few days later.
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In 1976 Bill Moyers joined CBS News, where he worked as editor and chief correspondent for CBS Reports until 1981, then as senior news analyst and commentator for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1981 to 1986.
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Bill Moyers was the last regular commentator for the network broadcast.
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Bill Moyers briefly joined NBC News in 1995 as a senior analyst and commentator, and the following year he became the first host of sister cable network MSNBC's Insight program.
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Bill Moyers was the last regular commentator on the NBC Nightly News.
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In 1971 Bill Moyers began working for the Public Broadcasting System.
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Bill Moyers Journal ran on PBS from 1972 until 1981 with a hiatus from 1976 to 1977.
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Bill Moyers later hosted a show with this title from 2007 to 2010.
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From 1982 through 2006,70 different documentaries, interviews or limited series produced and hosted by Bill Moyers ran on PBS stations.
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Between 1990 and 1999, Bill Moyers produced and hosted 7 episodes of the PBS journalism program Frontline:.
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Bill Moyers retired from the program on December 17,2004, but returned to PBS soon after to host Wide Angle in 2005.
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On November 20,2009, Bill Moyers announced that he would be retiring from his weekly show on April 30,2010.
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In 2020, Bill Moyers started a series of podcasts named Bill Moyers on Democracy.
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In 1995, Bill Moyers was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
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Bill Moyers is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Philosophical Society, and has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, including a doctorate from the American Film Institute.
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Bill Moyers is a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Bilderberg Group and since 1990 has been president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
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Bill Moyers married Judith Suzanne Davidson on December 18,1954.