Dan Rather

Person · Open Library

Born

1941-10-31

Works

26

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Film & TV

Acting · Wharton, Texas, USA

Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. Rather spontaneously created the first radar weather report by overlaying a transparent map over a radar image of Hurricane…

Known for

• The Inquisitor — Self2025
• Tiananmen Tonight — Himself2025
• Breakdown: 1975 — Self - Host, CBS Evening News (archive footage)2025
• Cover-Up — Self - 60 Minutes II, Correspondent (archive footage)2025
• Biden's Decision — Self (archive footage)2024
• Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? — Self (archive footage)2024
• Rather — Self - Journalist2023
• Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life — Self (archive footage)2022
• Lakota Nation vs. United States — Self (archive footage)2022
• Cuomo — Self - Guest2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Active from

2003-01-01

Active to

2006-07-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

179

Total plays

673

Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and former news anchor for the CBS Evening News and is now managing editor and anchor of a television news magazine, Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS' 60 Minutes. Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving the 2004 U. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,698x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 19,828x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,321x

4. Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation

   · 2013 · cited 11,682x

5. Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia

   · 2020 · cited 11,523x

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Key dates

Born

31 October 1941

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Dan

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Wharton

Occupation

opinion journalist

Employer

Associated Press

Political party

Democratic Party (United States)

Official website

www.newsandgutsmedia.com

Image

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