The pairing worked so well that on October 29, 1956, the two took over NBC's flagship nightly newscast, with Huntley in New York City and Brinkley in Washington, D.C., for the newly christened HuntleyBrinkley Report. "On this, my last words here on ABC, I quote Shakespeare, who said, All's well that ends well.' He was the recipient of two more George Foster Peabody Awards and 10 Emmy Awards. Other than hosting the NBC Nightly News, he anchored several news magazine shows throughout the 1970s but none of them gained as much popularity as its predecessor. We have set your language to This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. David McClure Brinkley was born on July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, N.C., the son of William Graham Brinkley, a railroad man, and Mary MacDonald West Brinkley. His style of writing and delivering the news -- clipped sentences spoken in measured cadences and in a sardonic voice -- was echoed by legions of young television commentators, imitated by comedians and mimics, and instantly recognized. Brinkley would offer Clinton an apology during a one-on-one interview a week later. David S Brinkley was born on March 4, 1916. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? The program was named HuntleyBrinkley Report. "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" ended with Mr. Huntley's retirement in 1970, but Mr. Brinkley remained at NBC for 11 years after his departure. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. High-Profile South Carolina Lawyer Found Dead In Home. In 1998, he surprised many of his admirers in the news business when he agreed to become a spokesman for Archer-Daniels-Midland, the agribusiness giant. Failed to report flower. He moved to Washington, D.C., thinking a radio job awaited him at CBS News. week's top story. He summed up his own career as the subtitle of his 1995 memoir, "David Brinkley: 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, One Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina.". , Washington Post May the star rest in power; our thoughts and prayers are with David A Arnold's family, friends, fans, and all of his loved ones during the hard period. Callers flooded the network's phone lines to complain about or praise Mr. Brinkley's remarks. ABC NEWS: Pearl Harbor: Two Hours That Changed The World (David Brinkley), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Radio Television Digital News Association, "David Brinkley, Elder Statesman of TV News, Dies at 82", "David Brinkley, Legendary NBC Newsman, Dies at 82", http://www.museum.tv/exhibitionssection.php?page=466. ''Most of the news isn't very important. In 1945, NBC made him the moderator of a television news show called "America United," which was shown in the Washington area. ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'' ended with Mr. Huntley's retirement in 1970, but Mr. Brinkley remained at NBC for 11 years after Mr. Huntley's departure. Winding up a long night, when ABC correspondents gathered around Peter Jennings, the anchor, Mr. Brinkley said of the newly re-elected Mr. Clinton: "He has not a creative bone in his body. So there was considerable dismay when Mr. Brinkley appeared for A-D-M on his old show with these self-introductory words: ''Since television began, I have brought you the news -- wars, elections, victories, defeats. June 27/July 4, 2003, p. 16; E! went to NBC to ask for an interview, and was hired immediately. Receiving an Emmy Award yearly from 1958 to 1964, their NBC broadcast defined how the news . 82 after complications suffered in a "The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it," Mr. Brinkley said. Mr. Brinkley retired from his weekly stint as moderator of ''This Week With David Brinkley'' in November 1997, saying he would contribute commentary and perform other duties for the network. It later included George Will, Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson. In 1959, for example, NBC sent him on a tour of the Mediterranean and the resultant clips were broadcast as "Our Man in the Mediterranean." His colleague Roger Mudd once observed that Mr. Brinkley ''brought a level of political sophistication and literary craftsmanship and a lively sense of humor that television had never known before and that hasn't been equaled since.''. The news was confirmed in a statement made by Crosby's wi } Throughout the 1960's "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" set the pace for NBC News, helping it pull ahead of its rival networks' news operations, including CBS News, which had always regarded itself as the elite network news operation. Winding up a long night, when ABC correspondents gathered around Peter Jennings, the anchor, Mr. Brinkley said of the newly re-elected Mr. Clinton: ''He has not a creative bone in his body. David Brinkley, the wry reporter and commentator whose NBC broadcasts with Chet Huntley from 1956 to 1970 helped to define and popularize television news in America, died on Wednesday night at his home in Houston. Veteran American newscaster David Brinkley helped define an entire era of television news reporting. He was known for his ironic presentation style and the ability to infuse wittiness to serious news presentation style. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening. Family members linked to this person will appear here. On November 10, 1996, he retired from hosting This Week with David Brinkley. display: block; As of the time of this writing, David Crosby's cause of death has yet to be revealed. Reuven Frank, the program's producer, was credited with conceiving its famous closing lines, ''Good night, Chet,'' ''Good night, David,'' ''And good night for NBC News'' as a gesture of warmth to offset the serious demeanors of Mr. Huntley and Mr. Brinkley and the seriousness with which they treated the nightly news. Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana 46220 . Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect Mr. Brinkley once explained the enormous success of "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" in this way: "I wrote pretty well, and Huntley looked good and had a great voice. ended when Huntley retired in 1970. Mr. Brinkley's marriage to Ann Fischer ended in divorce. display: none; David Brinkley. Their fame extended far beyond the realm of journalism. Here is all you want to know, and more! Born in 1920, Brinkley was a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the The format proved highly successful and was soon imitated by ABC's NBC and CBS rivals as well as engendering new programs originating both nationally and from local stations. He summed up his career as the subtitle of his 1995 memoir, ''David Brinkley'': ''11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina.''. Mr. Brinkley was not given to nostalgia. NEW YORK (AP) - David Brinkley, who first gained fame as one-half of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley anchor team and for more than a half-century loomed large in the newscasting . Failed to delete memorial. He first tied the knot with Ann Fischer in 1946. "David passed away peacefully today in his home and doctors . There are no volunteers for this cemetery. His signature was crisp writing and a distinctive clipped delivery. In his five decades long career, he was felicitated with multiple prestigious awards including ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, one Alfred I. duPont Award. And it has evolved. Peter Jennings pointed out that they were still on the air. fall. Pioneering TV journalist David Brinkley, 82, who at his 1960s peak with on-air partner Chet Huntley was to NBC News what Walter Cronkite was to CBS, died Wednesday night, ABC News has announced . This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Brinkley married Susan Melanie Benfer the same year. This browser does not support getting your location. Archer had gotten itself into serious difficulty with the federal government in 1996, paying a $100 million fine for the price fixing of food and feed additives. Staggering snowfall in California mountains leaves residents trapped for days, SpaceX launches new crew on flight to space station, Garland testifies before Senate panel amid ongoing special counsel probes, Colon cancer rates rising in younger age group, study finds, Firefighter dies battling blaze in downtown Buffalo, mayor says, Several hospitalized after Lufthansa flight diverted to Dulles due to turbulence, Explosive found in checked luggage at Pennsylvania airport, feds say, Prosecution wraps its case at Alex Murdaugh murder trial, Top McCarthy aide, House Oversight chair each met with Ashli Babbitt's mother, Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect. Within a span of time, This Week with David Brinkley revolutionized the way news was presented. Brinkley's dry wit offset the serious tone set by Huntley, and the program proved popular with audiences turned off by the incessantly serious tone of CBS's news broadcasts of that era. Independent Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? What we do know is that he was still fairly active on Twitter as recently as Jan. 18, the day before his death, when he retweeted a video of environmental activist Greta Thunberg being arrested. Verify and try again. mosquitoes, and he was at times forced to go outside and read under the Try again later. Before the crash, the boyish, gap-toothed Brinkley was known primarily as a Michael . He had only one notable gaffe in his Brinkley and his co-anchor gained such celebrity that Brinkley was forced to cut short his reporting on Hubert Humphrey in the 1960 West Virginia primary because West Virginians were more interested in meeting Brinkley than the candidate. Oops, we were unable to send the email. In later years Mr. Brinkley said he thought the sign-off was ''silly and inappropriate.''. broke with the mellifluous tradition of earlier broadcasting and spawned "This Week" had a free-wheeling format in which Brinkley took great delight. Brinkley said, "Really?! This arrangement lasted until July 4; when Reynolds' eventual successor as the network anchor, Peter Jennings, was brought in from his post in London.[7]. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. It was due to this that he became known as one of the most talented writers of the news channel. Weve updated the security on the site. coanchor of NBC's nightly Share this memorial using social media sites or email. He continued in that profile for a couple of years. "Most of my life," he said in a 1992 interview, "I've simply been a reporter covering things, and writing and talking about it. His career extended from the end of the radio age to the age of the internet. emphasis as if there were.". The journal became so popular that it was felicitated with a George Foster Peabody Award and two Emmy Awards. He later called his departure "a rending, wrenching experience," that brought tears to his eyes. the network received an unprecedented amount of mail commending their In Washington DC, he looked for a job with CBS News but luckily found a job with the NBC News as a White House correspondent. run as the longestserving anchor or host of a daily or weekly Then in 1970, Huntley retired. } While he was still a student at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, he worked for a weekly newspaper, owned by a relative, providing a column about high school activities. Speaking in 1996 of Mr. Huntley, who died in 1974, he said: "We weren't really close. Bush called him "the elder statesman of broadcast journalism" but Brinkley was much more humble. When Huntley retired from the anchor chair in 1970, the evening news program was renamed NBC Nightly News (not insignificantly employing the suffixes of Huntley and Brinkley's surnames for the sake of continuity), and Brinkley co-anchored the broadcast with John Chancellor and Frank McGee. But the early years of Nightly News never achieved the popularity of Huntley-Brinkley Report, and none of several news magazine shows anchored by Brinkley during the 1970s succeeded. But he apologized to President Clinton a few days later. apologized for the remark, but ran afoul of his former colleagues a year Along the way, though, he won 10 Emmys, 3 George Foster Peabody awards and, in 1992, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush. After the glorifying success of This Week with David Brinkley, he came up with yet another show for ABC which was in memory of World War II. He appeared as a co-anchor with Chet Huntley on the National Broadcasting Company evening news program, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" from October 1956 through July 31, 1970, the date that Huntley retired. II became one of the few radio reporters to move successfully into the new He had been suffering from fatal health issues and was forced to leave his home. Their onair repartee struck a chord with viewers, and September 21, 1998 . He died on November 27, 2003 at 41 years old. D.C., to interview for a job with CBS Radio; when CBS turned him down he Brinkley was divorced from his first wife, Ann, in the 1960s and married Susan Benfer in 1972. 0 cemeteries found in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA. In September 1981, Mr. Brinkley, then 61, said he was leaving NBC after 38 years "because there's nothing at NBC that I really want to do." He then moved to Washington, where NBC, impressed by his ability to write for the ear, hired him as a news writer. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. He paid for it in advance," Mr. Brinkley said. After much discussion, they gave a green signal to the pair, whom they felt were not much experienced for the job. It met with huge success both commercially and critically. By 1964, the programs's coverage of the Democratic convention drew a remarkable 84 percent share of the viewers. #inline-recirc-item--id-92c39502-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-92c39502-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? By 1964, the program's coverage of the Democratic convention drew a remarkable 84 percent share of the viewers. "For those of us who were privileged to work with him over his long and outstanding career, we know that he set a shining example for everyone in broadcast journalism," ABCNEWS President David Westin said. was rescued from a fire by a sheriff's deputy, who broke a window From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC 's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley . Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. A consumer-research company found in 1965 that these co-anchors were recognized by more adult Americans than were John Wayne or the Beatles. There was a problem getting your location. Born David McClure Brinkley, July 10, 1920, in Wilmington, NC; died after complications from a fall, June 11, 2003, in Houston, TX. Archer had gotten itself into serious difficulty with the government in 1996, paying a $100 million fine for the price-fixing of food and feed additives. In his final election night program, in 1996, Mr. Brinkley delivered some parting shots, calling President Clinton a bore and telling voters they could expect more ''goddamned nonsense'' for the next four years. The of North Carolina and then the North Carolina National Guard, from which November 27, 2003 . Kane, McKean County, Pennsylvania 16735 . Include gps location with grave photos where possible. His next career step was moving to the American Broadcasting Company, ABC, to host a Sunday morning political program, "This Week With David Brinkley" from 1981 until he retired from full-time airing on December 8, 1996, thus ending his run as the longest-serving news anchor or host of a daily or weekly national TV program in the history of American broadcasting. Staggering snowfall in California mountains leaves residents trapped for days between 1956 and 1970 set the standard for an entire generation of But he apologized to President Clinton a few days later. 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