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    Eric Sevareid Public Symposium

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    Presented by North Dakota Humanities Council at Bismarck State College

    September 30-October 3, 2010

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    The four-day symposium will examine the life and career of a CBS journalist and broadcaster who served as the “conscience of America” between 1963 and 1974, when he provided nightly commentaries on Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening News. Sevareid was born in Velva, North Dakota, in 1919. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1992. Bob Schieffer will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, September 30, at Bismarck’s Belle Mehus Auditorium. Schieffer, who hosts CBS’s Face the Nation, knew Sevareid well. Schieffer is regarded as one of the most entertaining and insightful public speakers in national media. Rather, who was one of Eric Sevareid’s favorite protégés, will engage in an informal conversation, “Knowing Eric,” Saturday evening (October 2) with Emmy-winning commentator and contributor to American Life TV Nick Clooney. Clooney’s son George was the producer and star of the film Good Night and Good Luck. The Dakota Institute is working on a full-length documentary film about Sevareid, who was one of the Murrow Boys who brought World War II home to American audiences through the medium of live radio. The film will be completed in 2011. A Dakota Institute film crew led by Clay Jenkinson interviewed Rather for five hours in New York City in December 2009. The symposium is open to the public. All lectures and panel discussions are free. The public can register at www.sevareidlegacy.com. A full-package registration that includes meals, a field trip to Velva, and special private sessions with nationally-known presenters, is also available.


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        Bismarck State College

        1500 Edwards Ave
        , ND 58501

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        Free and Open to the public Meals are available for a fee.

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        September 30-October 3, 2010

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        Thursday, September 30, 2010 1 p.m. C. Ray Penn “The Philosopher for the Common Citizen” 2 p.m. John Maxwell Hamilton “Sevareid and World War II Memoir” Book Signing to Follow: Journalism’s Roving Eye by John Maxell Hamilton 3:00 – 3:15 break 3:15 p.m. Tom Isern “Not So Wild a Dream as Prairie Autobiography” Followed by a Book Signing: Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains by Tom Isern and Jim Hoy & Plains Folk II: The Romance of the Landscape by Tom Isern and Jim Hoy 4 p.m. Donovan Webster “Sevareid’s Adventure with the Naga Tribe in Burma” Book Signing to Follow: The Burma Road by Donovan Webster 7:00 p.m. Keynote Address Belle Mehus Auditorium Bob Schieffer “The Legacy of Eric Sevareid” Book Signing to Follow: This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV by Bob Schieffer & Bob Schieffer’s America by Bob Schieffer Friday, October 1, 2010 9 a.m. Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson “The Murrow Boys” Book Signing to Follow: The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson 11:00 -11:15 am. Break 10 a.m. Mark Bernstein “WWII on the Air” Book Signing to Follow: World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts that Riveted a Nation by Mark Bernstein and Alex Lubertozzi 11:15 a.m Alan Bjerga “Severeid's Washington Legacy: Enduring, or Obscured” 12:30 Lunch Featuring Susan St. Pierre, Eric Sevareid’s Widow and 60 Minutes Producer 2 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Bob Edwards of NPR will host a live recreation of the day broadcast news was invented by Edward R. Murrow during WWII. The event will feature correspondents stationed around the world reporting on the impact of broadcast media on world history. Book Signing to Follow: Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards {break} Keynote Address: 7 p.m. Nick Clooney “The Role of the Press in a Democratic Society” Followed by a Book Signing: The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen by Nick Clooney Saturday, October 3, 2010 9 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Chorus of America, 1963-1977 Assessing Eric Sevareid’s Commentaries on America and the World on the CBS Evening News A panel of humanities discussion and exploration clips of Sevareid commentaries on a range of subjects, followed by panel discussion Sevareid and the Space Program Sevareid and Civil Rights Sevareid and the Assassinations Sevareid and Vietnam Sevareid and Watergate Sevareid the 60s’ Youth Movement Panelists: T. Harrel Allen, Camille D’Arienzo, Mark Strand, Raymond Schroth, Craig Nelson, Randall Kennedy, Clay Jenkinson, others Lunch: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Dr. Jim Leach Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities “Sevareid and Civil Discourse in a Noisy Democracy” With an introduction by Tami Carmichael, chair of the NDHC 2:00 p.m. Clay Jenkinson “The Ordeal of William Shirer” 3:00 p.m. Raymond Schroth “Eric Sevareid and the Search for an American Identity” 4:00 p.m. Film Festival featuring films from the upcoming Dakota Institute documentary film on Eric Sevareid Keynote 7:00 p.m. A conversation with Dan Rather and Nick Clooney “Knowing Eric” The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen by Nick Clooney The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist by Dan Rather The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation by Dan Rather

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