He started out, in 1941, as an $11-a-week newspaper reporter for the Morning Star in Wilmington, N.C. By 1956, as co-anchor of a 15-minute newscast on NBC, he had become as familiar in America as ...

David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The ...

The Cold War officially ended yesterday, according to our world leaders, so it's rather nice to be right here, right now, doing just what we're doing." Only David Brinkley would introduce an ...

Cibolo, Texas: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, who gave their final telecast 54 years ago on July 31, 1970, were representative of the golden age of television news, an epoch when television ...

For half a century, David Brinkley set the standard as a news anchor and reporter. As we mark the centennial of his birth, it’s worth noting how this broadcasting pioneer successfully navigated an ...

June 12 -- — Veteran ABCNEWS reporter David Brinkley has died. Brinkley died Wednesday night at his home in Houston of complications from a fall. He was 82. "For those of us who were privileged to ...