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{{Short description|American journalist (1920–2003)}}
{{For|the Maryland politician|David R. Brinkley}}
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'''David McClure Brinkley''' (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American [[News presenter|newscaster]] for [[NBC News|NBC]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

From 1956 through 1970, he [[News presenter|co-anchored]] [[NBC]]'s top-rated nightly [[News broadcasting#Television news|news]] program, ''[[The Huntley–Brinkley Report]],'' with [[Chet Huntley]] and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, ''[[NBC Nightly News]],'' through the 1970s.  In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday ''[[This Week (U.S. TV program)|This Week with David Brinkley]]'' program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]].  Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten [[Emmy Award]]s, three George Foster [[Peabody Award]]s, and the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-06-12-brinkley-dies_x.htm|title=David Brinkley, Legendary NBC Newsman, Dies at 82|work=USA Today|agency=Associated Press|date=June 12, 2003|access-date=2017-08-26|archive-date=2004-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040713213133/http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-06-12-brinkley-dies_x.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

He wrote three books, including the 1988 bestseller ''Washington Goes to War'', about how [[World War II]] transformed the nation's capital. His books were largely based on his own observations as a young reporter in the city.

==Early life==
Brinkley was born in [[Wilmington, North Carolina]], the youngest of five children born to William Graham Brinkley and Mary MacDonald (née West) Brinkley. He began writing for a local newspaper, the ''[[Star-News|Wilmington Morning Star]]'', while still attending [[New Hanover High School]]. He attended the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], [[Emory University]], and [[Vanderbilt University]], before entering service in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] in 1940. Following a medical discharge, Brinkley worked for [[United Press International]] in several of its Southern bureaus.<ref name="NYT Obituary">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/obituaries/12CND-BRINK.html?pagewanted=all | work=[[The New York Times]] | first=Richard | last=Severo | title=David Brinkley, Elder Statesman of TV News, Dies at 82 | date=June 12, 2003 | access-date=2016-11-01 | archive-date=2016-08-01 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801194107/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/obituaries/12CND-BRINK.html?pagewanted=all | url-status=live }}</ref> In 1943, he moved to [[Washington, D.C.]], looking for a radio job at [[CBS]] News. Instead, Brinkley took a job at NBC News, became its [[White House]] correspondent, and in time began appearing on television.

==Career==
In 1952, Brinkley began providing Washington reporting on NBC Television's evening news program, the ''[[Camel News Caravan]]'' (the name changed over time), hosted by [[John Cameron Swayze]]. In 1956, NBC News executives considered various possibilities to anchor the network's coverage of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] political conventions, and when executive J. Davidson Taylor suggested pairing two reporters (he had in mind [[Bill Henry (journalist)|Bill Henry]] and Ray Scherer), producer [[Reuven Frank]], who favored Brinkley for the job, and NBC's director of news, [[Joseph Meyers (news director)|Joseph Meyers]], who favored [[Chet Huntley]], proposed combining Huntley and Brinkley. NBC's top brass consented, but they had so little confidence in the team that they withheld announcing it for two months.<ref>Frank, Reuven. ''Out of Thin Air: The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News.'' New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991, pp. 100–102.</ref> Their concern proved unfounded.

The pairing worked so well that on October 29, 1956, the two took over NBC's flagship nightly newscast, with Huntley in New York City and Brinkley in Washington, D.C., for the newly christened ''Huntley–Brinkley Report''. Brinkley's dry wit offset the serious tone set by Huntley, and the program proved popular with audiences turned off by the incessantly serious tone of CBS's news broadcasts of that era. Brinkley's ability to write for the ear with simple, declarative sentences gained him a reputation as one of the medium's most talented writers, and his connections in Washington led CBS's Roger Mudd to observe, "Brinkley, of all the TV guys here, probably has the best sense of the city&nbsp;— best understands its moods and mentality. He knows Washington and he knows the people."<ref name="NY-Accident">"An Accident of Casting," ''The New Yorker'', August 3, 1968.</ref>{{rp|41}} Most often described as "wry", Brinkley once suggested on the air that the best way to resolve the controversy over whether to change the name of Boulder Dam to "[[Hoover Dam]]" was to have former president [[Herbert Hoover]] change his name to "Herbert Boulder".

Another example of Brinkley's wryness was evinced on the third night of Chicago's infamous Democratic Convention of 1968.  After continuous abuses of NBC correspondents made on the floor of the convention&nbsp;— namely, interference and shadowing of the media staff by supporters of [[Hubert Humphrey]], presumably with connections to political boss [[Richard J. Daley]]&nbsp;— Brinkley criticized Daley's alleged interference with freedom of the press following Senator [[Abraham Ribicoff]]'s stormy nomination of [[George McGovern]].  Perhaps in reply to a control room request for objectivity and alluding to Daley's refusal to be interviewed by NBC's [[John Chancellor]] earlier in the evening, Brinkley was heard over the noise of the McGovern demonstration saying, "Mayor Daley had his chance!" (''i.e.'', "now give the McGovern people theirs").<ref>http://www.museum.tv/exhibitionssection.php?page=466 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927022819/http://www.museum.tv/exhibitionssection.php?page=466 |date=2012-09-27 }} part seven</ref>

{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?68215-1/memoir ''Booknotes'' interview with Brinkley on ''A Memoir'', December 10, 1995], [[C-SPAN]]}}

Huntley and Brinkley's nightly sign-off&nbsp;— "Good night, Chet," Brinkley would intone; "Good night, David," Huntley would reply&nbsp;— entered popular usage and was followed by the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony as the program credits rolled. ''The Huntley–Brinkley Report'' was America's most popular television newscast until it was overtaken, at the end of the 1960s, by the ''[[CBS Evening News]]'', anchored by Walter Cronkite. Brinkley and his co-anchor gained such celebrity that Brinkley was forced to cut short his reporting on Hubert Humphrey in the 1960 West Virginia primary because West Virginians were more interested in meeting Brinkley than the candidate.<ref name="NY-Accident" />{{rp|34}} From 1961 to 1963, Brinkley anchored a prime time news magazine, ''David Brinkley's Journal''. Produced by Ted Yates, the program won a George Foster [[Peabody Award]] and two [[Emmy Award]]s.<ref>Thomas A. Mascaro, [http://www.tvquarterly.com/tvq_38_3_4/media/articles/03_they_beat_the_clock.pdf "They Beat the Clock—NBC's Innovative Newsmagazine, ''David Brinkley's Journal'' (1961–1963)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411190513/http://www.tvquarterly.com/tvq_38_3_4/media/articles/03_they_beat_the_clock.pdf |date=2016-04-11 }}, ''Television Quarterly''.</ref>

On November 22, 1963, Brinkley helped cover [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy]] for NBC News from Washington. He opened the [[The Huntley–Brinkley Report|Huntley-Brinkley Report]] that night by saying "Good evening. The essential facts are these: President Kennedy was murdered in [[Dallas|Dallas, Texas]]. He was shot by [[Lee Harvey Oswald|a sniper]] hiding in [[Texas School Book Depository|a building]] near his parade route. He was dead within an hour. [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] is President of the United States".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/david-brinkley-recounts-the-essential-facts-of-november-22-1963-69583427576 | title=David Brinkley recounts the 'essential facts' of November 22, 1963 | website=[[NBC News]] | access-date=February 3, 2024 | archive-date=February 3, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203005131/https://www.nbcnews.com/video/david-brinkley-recounts-the-essential-facts-of-november-22-1963-69583427576 | url-status=live }}</ref> Later that night, after the news of the President's death was confirmed, Brinkley said in a commentary at around 1:00 the next morning: "It has all been shocking, but perhaps one element in the shock was the speed. At a little after one o'clock this afternoon [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] was as about as alive as any human being ever gets. Young, strong, vigorous, looking forward to another 5 years of leadership of this country and of the western world... By 6:00 President Kennedy had been murdered, [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] was President of the United States, [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Mrs. Kennedy]] was a widow, a brave and composed one no could fail to admire, all of them were back in Washington... In about 4 hours we had gone from President Kennedy in Dallas alive, to back in Washington dead, and a new President in his place. There is no more news here tonight and really no more to say, except what  has happened today has been too much, too ugly and too fast".<ref>{{Cite news |title=The JFK assassination as news: TV provided an intimate experience of national trauma |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-jfk-assassination-as-news-tv-provided-an-intimate-experience-of-national-trauma/2013/11/15/e16e22d2-3cee-11e3-b6a9-da62c264f40e_story.html |access-date=2024-02-01 |archive-date=2018-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823132522/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-jfk-assassination-as-news-tv-provided-an-intimate-experience-of-national-trauma/2013/11/15/e16e22d2-3cee-11e3-b6a9-da62c264f40e_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Andrew |date=2013-11-18 |title=How to Watch The Kennedy Assassination Coverage as It Happened |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/how-to-watch-the-kennedy-assassination-coverage-as-it-happened/281568/ |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=The Atlantic |language=en |archive-date=2024-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201015807/https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/how-to-watch-the-kennedy-assassination-coverage-as-it-happened/281568/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=DAVID BRINKLEY COMMENTARY FROM THE NIGHT OF JFK'S ASSASSINATION | date=September 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_z6T9u-tw |access-date=2024-02-01 |language=en |archive-date=2024-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130203040/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_z6T9u-tw |url-status=live }}</ref>

<!-- Commented out: [[Image:Davidbrinkley071669.jpg|left|thumb|175px|David Brinkley covering the launch of [[Apollo 11 for NBC News on the morning of July 16, 1969]]]] -->
When Huntley retired from the anchor chair in 1970, the evening news program was renamed ''NBC Nightly News'', and Brinkley co-anchored the broadcast with [[John Chancellor]] and [[Frank McGee (journalist)|Frank McGee]]. In 1971, Chancellor was named sole anchor, and Brinkley became the program's commentator, delivering three-minute perspectives several times a week under a reprise of the earlier title, ''David Brinkley's Journal''. By 1976, though, NBC had decided to revive the dual-anchor format, and Brinkley once again anchored the Washington desk for the network until October 1979. But the early years of ''Nightly News'' never achieved the popularity of ''Huntley-Brinkley Report'', and none of several news magazine shows anchored by Brinkley during the 1970s succeeded. An unhappy Brinkley left NBC in 1981; ''NBC Magazine'' was his last show for that network.

Almost immediately, Brinkley was offered a job at ABC. ABC News president [[Roone Arledge]] was anxious to replace ABC's [[Sunday morning talk show]], ''[[Issues and Answers]]'', which had always lagged far behind CBS's ''[[Face the Nation]]'' and NBC's ''[[Meet the Press]]''. Brinkley was tapped for the job and in 1981 began hosting ''[[This Week (U.S. TV program)|This Week with David Brinkley]]''. ''This Week'' revolutionized the Sunday morning news program format, featuring not only several correspondents interviewing guest newsmakers, but concluding with a roundtable discussion. The format proved highly successful and was soon imitated by ABC's NBC and CBS rivals as well as engendering new programs originating both nationally and from local stations.

For a brief period after Washington-based ''[[ABC World News Tonight|World News Tonight]]'' anchor [[Frank Reynolds]] was diagnosed with hepatitis that ultimately claimed his life on July 20, 1983, Brinkley returned to the network anchor desk as Reynolds' substitute from Washington. This arrangement lasted until July 4; when Reynolds' eventual successor as the network anchor, [[Peter Jennings]], was brought in from his post in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Vick |first=Karl |title=ABC feeling after-effects of Frank Reynolds' illness |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IJRQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6192%2C5564077 |website=Google News Search Archive |publisher=St. Petersburg Times |access-date=November 12, 2018 |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |page=1D |date=June 21, 1983 |archive-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204024316/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IJRQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6192%2C5564077 |url-status=live }}</ref>

As part of ABC's commemoration of [[World War II]], Brinkley and the News division produced the special, ''The Battle of the Bulge: 50 Years On'', with Brinkley hosting and interviewing survivors of the battle, [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] and [[Axis powers|Axis]]. The special, which aired at Christmas 1994, was critically acclaimed and widely viewed.

==Retirement==
Days before Brinkley's retirement from regular news coverage, Brinkley made a rare, on-air mistake during evening coverage of the [[1996 United States presidential election]] at a moment when he thought he was on commercial break. One of his colleagues asked him what he thought of the prospects for [[Bill Clinton]]'s re-election. He called Clinton "a bore"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/david-brinkley-signs-off-with-blast-at-clinton-2960253.php | title=David Brinkley Signs off with Blast at Clinton | work=SFGATE | date=7 November 1996 }}</ref> and added, "The next four years will be filled with pretty words and pretty music and a lot of goddamn nonsense!" Peter Jennings soon pointed out that they were still on the air. Brinkley said, "Really?! Well, I'm leaving anyway!". Brinkley blamed only himself for the hot mic incident. While it was pushed for Brinkley to offer an apology to Clinton, he declined, stating that while what he said was "stupid", he had meant what he had said. Instead, he called people connected to Clinton and he agreed to say a few words for an interview where he would state "It was not polite to you" about what he said in the context of being polite to guests.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpY3L_S5p_M</ref>

Brinkley's last broadcast as host of ''This Week'' was November 10, 1996, but he continued to provide short pieces of commentary for the show until September 28, 1997.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/26/us/david-brinkley-retiring-from-broadcasting.html|title=David Brinkley Retiring From Broadcasting|date=1997-09-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-02|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2019-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002222505/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/26/us/david-brinkley-retiring-from-broadcasting.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He then fully retired from television.

In addition to ten [[Emmy Award|Emmys]] and three [[Peabody Award|Peabodys]], Brinkley received the [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award|Alfred I. duPont Award]] in 1958.<ref>[http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/412-past-dupont-award-winners/594 All duPont–Columbia Award Winners] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814182043/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/412-past-dupont-award-winners/594 |date=August 14, 2012 }}, [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Columbia Journalism School]]. Retrieved 2013-08-06.</ref> In 1982, he received the [[Paul White (journalist)|Paul White]] Award for lifetime achievement from the [[Radio Television Digital News Association]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award#.U4FBHS8-Ngc |title=Paul White Award |publisher=[[Radio Television Digital News Association]] |access-date=2014-05-27 |archive-date=2013-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225052416/http://rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award#.U4FBHS8-Ngc |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1988, he was inducted into the [[Television Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees|title=Television Hall of Fame Honorees: Complete List|work=Television Academy |access-date=2014-03-08|archive-date=2016-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501211810/http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1992, President [[George H. W. Bush]] awarded him the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], the nation's highest civilian honor. Bush called him "the elder statesman of broadcast journalism". In an interview in 1992, he said, "Most of my life, I've simply been a reporter covering things and writing and talking about it."

==Personal life==
David Brinkley married the former Flora Ann Fischer in 1946 and had three sons; they divorced in 1972. Brinkley married Susan Melanie Benfer the same year. Their marriage lasted until Brinkley's death.

Brinkley was the father of the late historian and former [[Columbia University]] provost [[Alan Brinkley]] and the late [[Stanford University|Stanford]] journalism professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer [[Joel Brinkley]].

==Death==
Brinkley died at his home in [[Houston]] on June 11, 2003, from complications of a fall suffered at his vacation home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, according to his son, John Brinkley.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Veteran-newscaster-David-Brinkley-dies-2105488.php|title=Veteran newscaster David Brinkley dies|work=Houston Chronicle|date=12 June 2003|access-date=14 June 2017|archive-date=10 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710185845/http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Veteran-newscaster-David-Brinkley-dies-2105488.php|url-status=live}}</ref> His body is interred at [[Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina)|Oakdale Cemetery]], Wilmington, North Carolina.

== Television career ==
*1951–1956 ''[[Camel News Caravan]]'' (correspondent)
*1956–1970 NBC News/''[[The Huntley–Brinkley Report]]''
*1961–1963 ''David Brinkley's Journal,'' Wednesday 10:30–11:00&nbsp;p.m. EST
*1971–1976 ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' (commentator only)
*1976–1979 ''NBC Nightly News'' (co-anchor)
*1980–1981 ''NBC Magazine with David Brinkley''
*1981–1996 ''[[This Week (U.S. TV program)|This Week]] with David Brinkley''
*1981–1997 ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' (commentator)
*1991 ''Pearl Harbor: Two Hours That Changed The World with David Brinkley'' (50th anniversary)<ref>{{YouTube|id=uC65MC7N63Y|title=ABC NEWS: Pearl Harbor: Two Hours That Changed The World (David Brinkley)}}</ref>
*1994 ''David Brinkley Reports: The Battle of the Bulge; 50 Years On''
*1996–1997 ''This Week'' (commentator)

==Bibliography==
* ''Washington Goes to War'', 1988  {{ISBN|034540730X}}
* ''Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion'', 1991  {{ISBN|0345409523}}
* ''David Brinkley:  A Memoir'', 1995  {{ISBN|0345374029}}
* ''Brinkley's Beat:  People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time'', 2003  {{ISBN|0345426797}}

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/obituaries/12CND-BRINK.html?pagewanted=all David Brinkley obituary] by Richard Severo, ''The New York Times''
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970709073928/http://www.abcnews.com/onair/thisweek/html_files/brinkled.html |date=July 9, 1997 |title=ABC News biography of David Brinkley}}
*[http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0512/assign/rs_brinkley0512.htm Working with Brinkley] by Ron Steiman (1960–1961)
*[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0100af David Brinkley collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society&nbsp;— Over 150,000 documents covering Brinkley's career]
* {{The Interviews name|david-brinkley}}
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*{{Find a Grave|7567008}}

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