Ep. 312 - Bill Kurtis

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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News

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Legendary broadcast journalist and news anchor Bill Kurtis joins the show to talk about the history he's witnessed from his many years covering the news, from being threatened by Charles Manson to his investigative work on the effects of Agent Orange on soldiers returning from Vietnam, and everything in between. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles with your
0:12.5	host David Axelrod.
0:17.0	Bill Curtis is a living legend in broadcasting here in Chicago where he dominated television
0:22.9	news as an anchor man for decades as a one-time co-anchor of the CBS Morning News.
0:29.7	He does an investigative journalist and documentarian, including breaking the story of Agent Orange
0:36.0	and the horrific impact that it had on so many of our Vietnam veterans.
0:40.2	He continues to produce documentaries and some of you may know him as the genial announcer
0:46.5	on Weight Weight Don't Tell Me on NPR.
0:48.8	He sat down with Bill in Chicago recently to talk about his incredible career.
0:57.2	Bill Curtis, it's really good to see you.
1:00.6	When I started here at the University of Chicago back in 1972, 1973, I think you were just
1:07.4	about, that was when your big run began as an anchor at WBBM here with a lovely great
1:14.2	answer.
1:15.2	So we will get to that.
1:17.1	But I want to get to start at the beginning of the story and your family.
1:24.9	The fact that you actually weren't named Curtis when the whole story began.
1:30.4	Tell me about your folks and your dad who was quite a military man.
1:34.8	Well, you know, I laugh a little bit because everybody's talking about immigration and
1:40.4	we're a nation of immigrants and it never dawned on me that, oh my God, I'm like one generation
1:47.0	away from immigrants from Croatia.
1:50.2	And I was so green coming from the Midwest in Kansas where everybody just is in the melting
1:57.2	pot truly that I had to call him.
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