The Big Newsroom in the Sky

Bill Shadel, the first host of CBS’ Face the Nation and later an anchor at the upstart ABC, passed away Saturday, according to the AP. Among his many journalistic moments of note, the Seattle Times says, were that he and Edward R. Murrow were the first reporters to arrive at Buchenwald, that he moderated the third presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960, and that he spent 12 straight hours in the anchor chair during John Glenn’s 1962 orbit.

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