INTERVIEWER
Bob Schieffer ’59
CBS News Correspondent & Former Moderator of Face the Nation
Bob Schieffer has been a reporter for 65 years. He began his journalism career working at a small radio station while still a student at TCU. After graduation and three years of active duty in the US Air Force, he returned home and joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram where he covered the first of many big
stories.
During the Kennedy Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother inexplicably called the newspaper looking for a ride to Dallas. Schieffer happened to pick up the phone and he and fellow reporter Bill Foster took her to the Dallas police station.
Later, the paper made him the first reporter from a metropolitan Texas newspaper to report from Vietnam where he tracked down Texans in the war zone.
A brief stop at Fort Worth’s channel five television station led to Schieffer joining CBS News Washington Bureau in 1969.
During 47 years at CBS, Schieffer won virtually every award in broadcast journalism including eight Emmys. He was inducted into the Broadcast Hall of Fame and the Library of Congress named him a Living Legend. Schieffer has always said the award that has meant the most to him was when the TCU trustees
named the communications college in his honor.
Bob celebrated his 85 th birthday this year and the 55 th anniversary of his marriage to Patricia Penrose, also a TCU grad who recently retired after 30 years as a TCU trustee.