Dan Rather

Person · Open Library

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

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Southampton

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

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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 30,950x

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

   · 2019 · cited 20,903x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,794x

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

   · 2013 · cited 12,258x

5. LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales

   · 2022 · cited 11,700x

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Quotes

• “Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story.”
• “He invented the job, the job of anchoring, did it himself for 40 years, and taught two generations of anchormen, including this one, how to do it. He's retiring, but he'll be with us in spirit, and he'll be a part of every broadcast we do.”
• “[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.”
• “To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.”

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Key facts

Born

Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. , ( 1931-10-31 ) October 31, 1931 (age 94) , Wharton, Texas , U.S.

Education

Sam Houston State University ( BA )

Occupations

Journalist news presenter reporter and correspondent

Years active

1950–present

Spouse

Jean Goebel ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1957 ; died 2024 ) ​

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