biography
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Moyers, Bill(y Don)
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| Public official, television journalist, and producer, born in Hugo, Oklahoma. USA. While still in high school he worked for his local (Marshall, TX) newspaper. At college, he wrote to Senator Lyndon Johnson and got himself a summer internship, soon becoming a trusted aide, and went back to Texas to work at Mrs Johnson's radio and television station while attending the University of Texas. After a year at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he earned his degree in divinity from Southwestern Theological Seminary (Waco, TX) (1959), but he joined Senator Johnson's staff. When Johnson became vice-president, Moyers became his top assistant, but after a month he resigned to become an associate director of the new Peace Corps, and was made its deputy director (1962). President Johnson appointed Moyers a special assistant (1964–5), then press secretary (1965–7), but he left to become the publisher of Newsday (1967–70). In 1971 he hosted WNET's (New York City's public television station) This Week, followed by Bill Moyers Journal (1971–6, 1978–1), with a break to serve as a correspondent for CBS Reports (1976–8). He returned to CBS to do news analysis (1981–6). Back in the public television domain, he began to produce a series of shows based on interviews with leading thinkers from various fields. Two of his series, Joseph Campbell and the Power of the Myth (1988) and A World of Ideas (1989–90), were also converted into best-selling books. His 1992 television series, Healing and the Mind, which examined alternatives to traditional medicine, continued his commitment to imbue contemporary issues with questions of ultimate values. |
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