Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, born in New York City on 14 December 1922 and died on 19 August 2009. He was best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which at the time of his death was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under his leadership 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated as the nation's top-ranked television program, which it accomplished five times, and he produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.
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1988: In addition to several Peabody Awards given to 60 Minutes, Hewitt was given a personal Peabody Award, for his accomplishments that have "touch[ed] the lives of just about every American."
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