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Schieffer, Bob

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Personal name headingSchieffer, Bob
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Associated placeWashington (D.C.)
Birth date1937-02-25
Place of birthAustin (Tex.)
Profession or occupationTelevision journalists Journalists Authors
Type of familymale
Found inHis The acting president, c1989: CIP t.p. (Bob Schieffer)
CBS News profile page, 26 January 2018 (Bob Schieffer; was born in Austin, Texas and grew up in Fort Worth where he graduated from North Side High School and Texas Christian University; served three years in the U.S. Air Force; has been a reporter for more than half a century and his retirement in 2015 marked his 46th year at CBS News and his 24th anchoring "Face the Nation"; prior to joining CBS in 1969 he was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram where he was the first reporter from a Texas newspaper to report from Vietnam; has won virtually every award in broadcast journalism; In 2005, his alma mater Texas Christian University named its journalism school in his honor and in 2013 named the College, in which the journalism school is located, the Bob Schieffer College of Communication; He and his wife, the former Patricia Penrose, reside in Washington, D.C.)
Wikipedia, 26 January 2018 (Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937); is an American television journalist; known for his moderation of presidential debates; is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments: the White House, the Pentagon, United States Department of State, and the United States Congress)
Associated languageeng