74-698: Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers ; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary . He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations , from 1967 to 1974. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting , producing documentaries and news journal programs, and has won many awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as
148-462: A "representation of how people are consuming more voraciously than ever". In 2017 former editor Tina Brown published "The Vanity Fair Diaries". It was announced in November 2017 that Radhika Jones , editorial director of The New York Times books section, would succeed Carter as Editor-in-Chief on December 11, 2017. In 2018, Vanity Fair received accolades for removing actor James Franco from
222-494: A 6-part interview series called Creativity in 1982 and a 42-part interview series A World of Ideas from 1988–1990 which featured a companion book. Topics of Moyers broadcasts included: These were often produced by Moyers and his wife, Judith Suzanne Davidson Moyers, through Public Affairs Television , a company they formed in 1986. Other collaborators included filmmaker David Grubin and producer Madeline Amgott Between 1990 and 1999, Moyers produced and hosted 7 episodes of
296-399: A cover shoot following sexual harassment allegations. In 2020, Dario Calmese became the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of a Vanity Fair issue; his subject was Viola Davis . Vanity Fair employees unionized in 2022. In 1991 Vanity Fair began publishing an international edition. There are currently five international editions of Vanity Fair being published: namely in
370-415: A hiatus from 1976 to 1977. He later hosted a show with this title from 2007 to 2010. In 1975, Bill Moyers Journal aired Rosedale: The Way It Is, documenting the furor after the first Black family moved into Rosedale, Queens — including a rash of fire bombings. Forty-five years later a graduate student drew attention to a short segment recording the reactions of a group of black girls trying to make sense of
444-582: A new hour-long weekly interview show, Moyers & Company , which premiered in January 2012. In that same month, Moyers also launched BillMoyers.com . Later reduced to a half hour, Moyers & Company was produced by Public Affairs Television and distributed by American Public Television . The show has been heralded as a renewed fulfillment of public media's stated mission to air news and views unrepresented or underrepresented in commercial media. The program concluded on January 2, 2015. In 2020, Moyers started
518-634: 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. Moyers approved (but had nothing to do with the production) of the infamous " Daisy Ad " against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign. Goldwater blamed him for it, and once said of Moyers, "Every time I see him, I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up." The ad
592-692: A platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans." The Reporters Committee on the Freedom of the Press was vocal about the danger of the CPB chairman interfering with programming independence. The PBS Ombudsman and the Free Press noted that a poll taken in 2003 by the CPB itself found that 80 percent of Americans believe PBS to be "fair and balanced." In a speech given to The National Conference for Media Reform , Moyers said that he had repeatedly invited Tomlinson to have
666-403: A quarter of a century ago and they've won." He noted, "The rich are getting richer, which arguably wouldn't matter if the rising tide lifted all boats." Instead, however, "[t]he inequality gap is the widest it's been since 1929; the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water." He added that as "the corporate and governing elites are helping themselves to
740-571: A series of podcasts named Moyers on Democracy . Conversations included Lisa Graves on the Post Office conflict; Heather Cox Richardson on How the South Won the Civil War; Heather McGhee on racism's pernicious effect on American society and Bill T. Jones on his newest project — a retelling of Moby Dick from the viewpoint of a Black cabin boy. The series ended in early 2021. In 1995, Bill Moyers
814-480: A statement of apology on April 27: "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about." Nearly ten years later to the day, Cyrus took back the Disney apology statement in an Instagram story showing a New York Post front page regarding
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#1732858378683888-585: A summer intern and eventually promoted him to manage Johnson's personal mail. Soon after, Moyers transferred to the University of Texas at Austin , where he wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. While in Austin, Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stations, owned by Lady Bird Johnson , wife of Senator Johnson. During
962-590: A televised conversation with him on the subject but had been ignored. On November 3, 2005, Tomlinson resigned from the board, prompted by a report of his tenure by the CPB Inspector General Kenneth Konz, requested by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The report, which found that Tomlinson violated the Director's Code of Ethics and the statutory provisions of the CPB and PBS, was made public on November 15. It states: We found evidence that
1036-834: A trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media . Born Billy Don Moyers in Hugo in Choctaw County in southeastern Oklahoma , he is the son of John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and Ruby Johnson Moyers. Moyers was reared in Marshall, Texas . Moyers began his journalism career at 16 as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger . In college, he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton , Texas. In 1954, US Senator Lyndon B. Johnson employed him as
1110-465: A vast wasteland ” and called for programming in the public interest, the Johnson Administration instituted a study of the issue. The Carnegie Corporation of New York established a commission to study the value of and need for noncommercial educational television. Bill Moyers served on this committee, which released its report 'Public Television: A Program for Action,' in 1967. Moyers said of
1184-540: A young model as he was traveling to the funeral of his wife, Sharon Tate , in August 1969, claiming that he could make her "the next Sharon Tate". The court permitted Polanski to testify via a video link, after he expressed fears that he might be extradited were he to enter the United Kingdom. The trial began on July 18, 2005, and Polanski made English legal history as the first claimant to give evidence by video link. During
1258-644: 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 . In 2011, Moyers received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College . In a 2003 interview with BuzzFlash.com, Moyers said, "The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people
1332-534: Is considered the starting point of the modern-day harshly negative campaign ad. Journalist Morley Safer in his 1990 book "Flashbacks" wrote that Moyers and President Johnson met with and "harangued" Safer's boss, CBS president Frank Stanton , about Safer's coverage of the Marines torching Cam Ne village in the Vietnam War . During the meeting, Safer alleges, Johnson threatened to expose Safer's "communist ties". This
1406-657: Is fitting that the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honor him with our highest honor—the Lifetime Achievement Award." He has received well over thirty Emmys and virtually every other major television journalism prize, including a gold baton from the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards , a lifetime Peabody Award , and a George Polk Career Award (his third George Polk Award) for contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. He
1480-459: Is the American people." On July 24, 2006, liberal political commentator Molly Ivins published an article entitled Run Bill Moyers for President, Seriously , urging a symbolic candidacy, on the progressive website Truthdig . The call was taken up in October 2006 by Ralph Nader . Moyers did not run. In 2003, Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson wrote to Pat Mitchell ,
1554-666: The French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. following the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. In 2005, Vanity Fair was found liable in a lawsuit brought in the UK by film director Roman Polanski , who claimed the magazine had libelled him in an article by A. E. Hotchner published in 2002. The article recounted a claim by Lewis H. Lapham , editor of Harper's , that Polanski had made sexual advances towards
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#17328583786831628-689: The United Kingdom (since 1991), Italy (since 2003, ISSN 1723-6673), Spain (since 2008), France (since 2013), and Mexico (since 2015), with the Italian version published weekly. The Italian Vanity Fair was established in October 2003 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2013. Vanity Fair Germany launched in February 2007 at a cost of € 50 million (euros), then the most expensive new magazine in Germany in years and Condé Nast's biggest investment outside
1702-510: The Vanity Fair images are simply a product of bright set lighting, rather than deliberate skin lightening. Nyong'o was pleased with the work and saw no harm done to herself; she did not hold Vanity Fair or the photographer liable. Shortly before the Nyong'o case, Vogue magazine, a partner and buyer of Vanity Fair in 1936, was accused of altering actress Lena Dunham 's photos. Dunham considered
1776-567: The AP News Service quoted Moyers as saying, "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee . We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans , and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest
1850-528: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) former Chairman violated statutory provisions and the Director's Code of Ethics by dealing directly with one of the creators of a new public affairs program during negotiations with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the CPB over creating the show. Our review also found evidence that suggests "political tests" were a major criteria [ sic ] used by
1924-531: The FBI on the sexual preferences of White House staff members, most notably Jack Valenti . Moyers indicated his memory was unclear on why Johnson directed him to request such information, "but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover ." Under the direction of President Johnson, Moyers gave J Edgar Hoover the go-ahead to discredit Martin Luther King , played
1998-480: The Jenkins incident off the record. The Church Committee stated in 1975 that "Moyers has publicly recounted his role in the incident, and his account is confirmed by FBI documents." In 2005, Laurence Silberman wrote that Moyers denied writing the memo in a 1975 phone call, telling him the FBI had fabricated it. Moyers said he had a different recollection of the telephone conversation. Moyers also sought information from
2072-837: The March 1936 issue. Vanity Fair celebrates its 95th anniversary in 2008, as well as its 25th anniversary as a relaunched publication. The National Portrait Gallery in London has mounted an exhibition called "Vanity Fair Portraits, 1913–2008", which traveled to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia, to celebrate
2146-535: The PBS journalism program Frontline : Moyers hosted the TV news journal NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS for three years, starting in January 2002. He retired from the program on December 17, 2004, but returned to PBS soon after to host Wide Angle in 2005. When he left NOW , he announced that he wished to finish writing a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson . On April 25, 2007, Moyers returned to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal . In
2220-562: The Times-Mirror purchase price; Moyers resigned a few days later. In 1976 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. He was the last regular commentator for the network broadcast. During his last year at CBS, Moyers made public statements about declining news standards at
2294-486: The United States. The first version of Vanity Fair was published from 1913 to 1936. The imprint was revived in 1983 after Conde Nast took over the magazine company. Vanity Fair currently includes five international editions of the magazine. The five international editions of the magazine are the United Kingdom (since 1991), Italy (since 2003), Spain (since 2008), France (since 2013), and Mexico (since 2015). As of 2018,
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2368-575: The United States. After circulation had plummeted from half a million to less than 200,000 per week, the German edition was shut down in 2009. As a successor to a similar invitation-only event annually held by the late agent Irving Paul Lazar , the first Vanity Fair Oscar Party took place in 1994. During its first years, the magazine's Oscar party was co-hosted by producer Steve Tisch at Morton's in West Hollywood . At first, editor Graydon Carter kept
2442-479: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 763560159 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:32:58 GMT Vanity Fair (magazine) Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture , fashion , and current affairs published by Condé Nast in
2516-715: The academic year 1956–1957, he studied issues of church and state at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow . In 1959, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth , Texas. Moyers served as Director of Information while attending SWBTS. He was also a Baptist pastor in Weir in Williamson County , near Austin. Moyers
2590-452: The accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere—corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence—will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge." When he briefly retired in December 2004,
2664-406: The country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero. ... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book—a book that I'm proud to have helped make happen—part of the red-meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by
2738-522: The creation of the program Moyers said: ”We knew from the beginning that the Peace Corps was not an agency, program, or mission. Now we know—from those who lived and died for it—that it is a way of being in the world." At the 50th Anniversary “Salute to Peace Corps Giants,” hosted by the National Archives , Moyers said, "The years we spent at the Peace Corps were the best years of our lives.” Moyers gave
2812-587: The editor-in-chief is Radhika Jones . Condé Montrose Nast began his empire by purchasing the men's fashion magazine Dress in 1913. He renamed the magazine Dress and Vanity Fair and published four issues in 1913. It continued to thrive into the 1920s. However, it became a casualty of the Great Depression and declining advertising revenues. Nonetheless, its circulation at 90,000 copies was at its peak. Condé Nast announced in December 1935 that Vanity Fair would be folded into Vogue (circulation 156,000) as of
2886-430: The endeavor: “We became a central part of the American consciousness and a valuable institution within our culture." Moyers was influential in creating the legislation that would fulfill the committee's recommendations. In 1967, President Johnson signed Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 , which states: "it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting, including
2960-455: The film producer Judd Apatow , and actors Don Cheadle and Bryce Dallas Howard . Vanity Fair launched The Hive in June 2016, its online business, politics and technology news vertical. In January 2017, Vanity Fair' s Hive and Condé Nast Entertainment partnered with Cheddar online TV channel to create a live weekly series called VF Hive on Cheddar . Editor Graydon Carter called the series
3034-546: The first episode, "Buying the War", Moyers investigated what he called the general media's shortcomings in the runup to the War in Iraq . "Buying the War" won an Emmy at the 29th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2008) for Best Report in a News Magazine. On November 20, 2009, Moyers announced that he would be retiring from his weekly show on April 30, 2010. In August 2011 Moyers announced
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3108-484: The former Chairman in recruiting a President/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for CPB, which violated statutory prohibitions against such practices. In 2006, the PBS Ombudsman, whose role was reinvigorated by the controversy published a column entitled "He's Back: Moyers, not Tomlinson." Reflecting on the conflict, Moyers told The Boston Globe : "It's a place where if you fight you can survive, but it's not easy. The fact of
3182-499: The invitation list small, at around 120 for dinner. In 2008, in sympathy with a Writers Guild of America strike , Vanity Fair canceled its annual party. Between 2009 and 2013, the party was held at Sunset Tower . The 2014 edition took place in a temporary, 12,000-square-foot glass-walled structure at 8680 Sunset Boulevard. Vanity Fair makes a limited number of invitations available each year for charity. In recent years, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg have hosted an after-party at
3256-488: The magazine also prints articles on a variety of topics. In 1996, journalist Marie Brenner wrote an exposé on the tobacco industry titled "The Man Who Knew Too Much". The article was later adapted into a movie The Insider (1999), which starred Al Pacino and Russell Crowe . Most famously, after more than thirty years of mystery, an article in the May 2005 edition revealed the identity of Deep Throat ( W. Mark Felt ), one of
3330-448: The magazine include Bruce Weber , Annie Leibovitz , Mario Testino and Herb Ritts , who have all provided the magazine with a string of lavish covers and full-page portraits of current celebrities . Amongst the most famous of these was the August 1991 Leibovitz cover featuring a naked, pregnant Demi Moore , an image entitled More Demi Moore that to this day holds a spot in pop culture. In addition to its controversial photography,
3404-409: The magazine's photographic heritage. Vanity Fair: The Portraits, a special jubilee issue and hardback book, was published in the fall of 2008. Vanity Fair is a fictitious place ruled by Beelzebub in the book Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan . Later use of the name was influenced by the well-known 1847–48 novel of the same name by William Makepeace Thackeray . Condé Nast Publications, under
3478-611: The matter is that Kenneth Tomlinson had a chilling effect down the line." Moyers is a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1967–1974), and a member of the Bilderberg Group and since 1990 has been president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy . Moyers married Judith Suzanne Davidson (a producer) on December 18, 1954. They have three children and five grandchildren. Lyndon B. Johnson Administration Too Many Requests If you report this error to
3552-552: The modified photos to be offensive. In 2015, Vanity Fair had to update the account it had published by the NBC News correspondent Richard Engel about the disputed circumstances of his 2012 kidnapping in Syria , stating that he had misidentified his captors. In 2019, former contributing editor Vicky Ward said her 2003 profile of Jeffrey Epstein in Vanity Fair had included on-the-record accounts of Annie and Maria Farmer (who filed
3626-610: The network and declined to renew his contract with CBS, citing commitments with PBS. 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. He was the last regular commentator on the NBC Nightly News . In 1971 Moyers began working for the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ). His first PBS series, titled This Week with Bill Moyers , aired in 1971 and 1972. Bill Moyers Journal ran on PBS from 1972 until 1981 with
3700-437: The newspaper under Moyers, criticizing the "left-wing" coverage of Vietnam War protests. The two split over the 1968 presidential election, with Guggenheim signing an editorial supporting Richard Nixon , when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey . Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative Times-Mirror Company over the attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale, even though Moyers offered $ 10 million more than
3774-631: The ownership of S.I. Newhouse , announced in June 1981 that it was reviving the magazine. The first issue was released in February 1983 (cover date March), edited by Richard Locke , formerly of The New York Times Book Review . After three issues, Locke was replaced by Leo Lerman , veteran features editor of Vogue . He was followed by editors Tina Brown (1984–1992), Graydon Carter (1992–2017) and Radhika Jones (2017 to present). Regular writers and columnists have included Dominick Dunne , Sebastian Junger , Michael Wolff , Maureen Orth and Christopher Hitchens . Famous contributing photographers for
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#17328583786833848-417: 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. Circulation increased and the publication won 33 major journalism awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes . But the owner of the paper, Harry Guggenheim , a conservative, was disappointed by the liberal drift of
3922-452: The photograph taken of Johnson's swearing in . He 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. Moyers acted as the President's informal chief of staff from October 1964 until July 1965. From July 1965 to February 1967, he also served as White House press secretary . After
3996-518: The pictorials in Vanity Fair have attracted criticism. The April 1999 issue featured an image of actor Mike Myers dressed as a Hindu deity for a photo spread by David LaChapelle : after criticism, both the photographer and the magazine apologized. The magazine was the subject of Toby Young 's book, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People , about his search for success in New York City while working for Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair . The book
4070-430: The pictures left an impression that she was bare-breasted, Cyrus was wrapped in a bedsheet and was actually not topless. Some parents expressed outrage at the nature of the photograph, which a Disney spokesperson described as "a situation [that] was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old to sell magazines". In response to the internet circulation of the photo and ensuing media attention, Miley Cyrus released
4144-478: The president of PBS, that NOW with Bill Moyers "does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting." In 2005, Tomlinson commissioned a study of the show, without informing or getting authorization from the CPB board. The study was conducted by Fred Mann, Tomlinson's choice, a 20-year veteran of the American Conservative Union and a conservative columnist. Like
4218-406: The resignation of White House Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins because of a sexual misdemeanor in the run up to the 1964 election , President Lyndon B. Johnson , alarmed that the opposition was framing the issue as a security breach, ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find "derogatory" material on their personal lives. Goldwater himself only referred to
4292-415: The same answer in the famed Vanity Fair Proust questionnaire in 2011. Moyers served first as associate director of public affairs and then as Sargent Shriver's deputy director before becoming special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson in November 1963. Moyers was a key player in the creation of the public broadcasting system. When, in 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minnow labeled television "
4366-578: The sources for The Washington Post articles on Watergate , which led to the 1974 resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon . The magazine also features candid interviews with celebrities, including a monthly Proust Questionnaire . Other notable interviews have included: Teri Hatcher , who revealed in the magazine that she was sexually abused as a child; Jennifer Aniston 's first interview after her divorce from Brad Pitt ; Anderson Cooper , who talked about his brother's death; and Martha Stewart 's first interview after her release from prison. Some of
4440-403: The spoils of victory," access to political power has become "who gets what and who pays for it." Meanwhile, the public has failed to react because it is, in his words, "distracted by the media circus and news has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes." In support of this, he referred to "the paradox of Rush Limbaugh , ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across
4514-432: The story, simply stating "IM NOT SORRY Fuck YOU #10YearsAgo". In January 2014, Vanity Fair was under fire for allegedly altering the appearance of a celebrity featured in its pages for its February issue, Lupita Nyong'o , an actress known for her role in 12 Years A Slave . In Nyong'o's case, the magazine tweeted the photo and it began with fans accusing the company of altering her complexion. However, some believe that
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#17328583786834588-500: The study itself, Mann's appointment was not disclosed to the CPB. Tomlinson said that the study supported what he characterized as "the image of the left-wing bias of NOW". George Neumayr , the executive editor of The American Spectator , a conservative magazine, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that "PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident, left-wing bias... [Moyers] uses his show as
4662-548: The televised entertainment program Entertainment Tonight reported that 15-year-old Miley Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair . The photo, and subsequently released behind-the-scenes photos, show Cyrus without a top, her bare back exposed but her front covered with a bedsheet. The photo shoot was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz . The full photograph was published with an accompanying story on The New York Times website on April 27, 2008. On April 29, 2008, The New York Times clarified that though
4736-456: The trial, which included the testimonies of Mia Farrow and others, it was proved that the alleged scene at the famous New York restaurant Elaine's could not possibly have taken place on the date given, because Polanski only dined at this restaurant three weeks later. Also, the Norwegian then-model disputed the accounts that he had claimed to be able to make her "the next Sharon Tate". Polanski
4810-530: The use of such media for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes." On the 50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act, Moyers and Joseph A. Califano, Jr. spoke about their experience with WNET . When Lyndon B. Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination , Moyers became a special assistant to Johnson, serving from 1963 to 1967. Moyers is the last surviving person identifiable in
4884-465: The virulent racist attack they'd just experienced. The New York Times picked up on the story and found the children and others featured in the documentary and produced its own reported feature: " A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them." From 1982 through 2006, 70 different documentaries, interviews or limited series produced and hosted by Moyers ran on PBS stations. Individuals interviewed and profiled included: Moyers also hosted
4958-597: The war in Vietnam as his major legacy and, as a result, was insisting on victory at all costs, even in the face of public opposition. Moyers felt such a continuation of the conflict would tear the country apart. "I never thought the situation could arise when I would wish for the defeat of LBJ, and that makes my current state of mind all the more painful to me," he told them. "I would have to say now: It would depend on who his opponent is." The full details of his rift with Johnson were not made public. However, an Oval Office tape which
5032-621: Was ordained in 1954. Moyers planned to enter a Doctor of Philosophy program in American Studies at the University of Texas. During Senator Johnson's unsuccessful bid for the 1960 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination , Moyers served as a top aide, and in the general campaign he acted as liaison between Democratic vice-presidential candidate Johnson and the Democratic presidential nominee , U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy . The Peace Corps
5106-542: Was a bluff, according to Safer. Safer says that Moyers was "if not a key player, certainly a key bystander" in the incident. Moyers stated that his hard-hitting coverage of conservative presidents Reagan and Bush was behind Safer's 1990 allegations. In The New York Times on April 3, 1966, Moyers offered this insight on his stint as press secretary to President Johnson: "I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies." On October 17, 1967, he told an audience in Cambridge that Johnson saw
5180-424: Was awarded damages by the High Court in London. The case was notable because Polanski was living in France as a fugitive from U.S. justice, and never appeared in the London court for fear he would be extradited to the U.S. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair , responded, "I find it amazing that a man who lives in France can sue a magazine that is published in America in a British courtroom." On April 25, 2008,
5254-457: 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. The Peace Corp Act was signed by President Kennedy on September 22, 1961. In Sarge, Scott Stossel reports that "Peace Corps legend has it that between them Moyers and Shriver personally called on every single member of Congress." Reflecting 25 years later on
5328-645: Was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame . The same year, he also won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism . When he became a recipient of the 2006 Lifetime Emmy Award , the official announcement noted that “Bill Moyers has devoted his lifetime to the exploration of the major issues and ideas of our time and our country, giving television viewers an informed perspective on political and societal concerns," and that "The scope of and quality of his broadcasts have been honored time and again. It
5402-649: Was made into a movie in 2008, with Jeff Bridges playing Carter. In 2013, Condé Nast Entertainment struck a deal with Discovery Communications -owned cable channel Investigation Discovery for Vanity Fair Confidential , a crime and mystery documentary TV series based on stories from Vanity Fair magazine. Condé Nast Entertainment launched a Vanity Fair YouTube channel in July 2013. In anticipation of its 100th anniversary that year, Vanity Fair co-produced 10 short films, one to celebrate each decade, from well-known documentary filmmakers like Barbara Kopple and including
5476-557: Was recorded following Johnson's public announcement that he would not seek re-election on March 31, 1968, suggested that Moyers and Johnson were still in contact after Moyers left the White House, with Moyers even encouraging the President to change his mind about running. Moyers served as publisher for the Long Island, New York , daily newspaper Newsday from 1967 to 1970. The conservative publication had been unsuccessful, but Moyers led
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