John William Chancellor was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News.
17 Facts About John Chancellor
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John Chancellor covered issues of national importance while on The Huntley-Brinkley Report.
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John Chancellor covered the 1957 integration of the Little Rock Central High School, where a young Black girl, Elizabeth Eckford, wanted to attend an integrated school.
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John Chancellor's coverage showed the world the white mob that surrounded her.
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John Chancellor spent a number of years as a foreign correspondent in Europe, with postings in Vienna, London, Moscow, and Brussels.
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In July 1961, John Chancellor replaced Dave Garroway as host of NBC's Today program, a role he filled for fourteen months.
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Never comfortable with the soft news focus of Today, John Chancellor asked for, and was granted, a release from his contract with the show in the summer of 1962.
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John Chancellor returned to NBC in 1968 as senior correspondent on the Huntley-Brinkley Report and, two years later when Chet Huntley retired, John Chancellor stepped in to anchor the broadcast, renamed NBC Nightly News, a spot he held from 1970 to 1982; this job became the defining point of his career.
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From August 9,1971, to June 4,1976, John Chancellor became the sole weeknight anchor, stationed at the New York NBC headquarters, with Brinkley reduced to contributing pre-recorded commentaries, titled David Brinkley's Journal, about two to three times per week from Washington.
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John Chancellor has the distinction of creating the idea of using colors to represent the states won by presidential candidates in presidential elections.
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John Chancellor, when asked about the color scheme, sought to tie the British Labour's red to the American Democrats while British Conservatives used blue as their ribbon color.
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John Chancellor anchored the Nightly News through April 2,1982, when he was succeeded by a co-anchor team of Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd.
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John Chancellor remained on the program, providing editorial commentaries until his retirement from NBC on July 9,1993.
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In 1992, John Chancellor was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
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John Chancellor was the narrator of Baseball, a documentary by Ken Burns.
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John Chancellor wrote a book, Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America, which was published in 1990.
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The author Anne Rivers Siddons gave her first book, a 1975 collection of nonfiction essays, the title John Chancellor Makes Me Cry.