murrow: didn't you play the borscht circuit at one time? yes, i spent about four or five summers up at camp tamiment with danny kaye and with imogene coca. that was a very valuable experience. woman: we all got on to a big bus, out of new york. we were going on the jersey turnpike to the pocono mountains. there were two young guys sitting in front of me with dark heads. and we're bouncing along smelling the pig farms. and one of the heads turns around, he said, "hi, i'm eddie gilbert and i'm a scene designer." and i said, "oh, hi, i'm ruthanna boris and i'm the choreographer." and the other head turned around and looked me straight in the eye and said "my name is jerome robbins and i am the choreographer." narrator: tamiment was a summer resort that also served as a show business boot camp where the young entertainment staff invented a new broadway-style revue each week. sometimes these were politically conscious, in keeping with tamiment's origins as a socialist vacation retreat. more often they were just smart, irreverent, and funny. funn

jim axelrod and ed murrow report on an american legend we lost today. >> what you might call a career is actually my hobby. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is a developing situation but one high-ranking source in the u.s. government is telling us at this hour that four americans have been freed, one of them injured, after an airborne military assault on terrorists in algeria. we want to empsiels assault is still ongoing and the information is fluid. the americans were taken hostage yesterday, along with dozens of others, at a plant in a remote oil and gas field near the libyan border. a group that claims to be affiliated with al qaeda seizedly the plant. they said it was in retaliation for the french military attacks on islamic extremists in nearby mali. the situation is not entirely clear. we do not have definitive information on the number of00s or casualties. algerian authorities say tonight a number of hostage hostages and terrorists have been killed. traveling in london, defense secretary leon panetta sai

murrow: you must have big plans for the future, huh?re was tremendous experimentation going on. people were looking for new ways of working as a collective -- that was one thing -- and looking for new ways to present theater. narrator: in 1965, with one of the first grants from the national endowment for the arts robbins established the american theatre laboratory to work with material ranging from greek tragedy to japanese noh drama. but after two years, feeling "sidetracked," he returned to new york city ballet, because, he said "the master choreographer was working there, and what more honor and pleasure and education could one have?" city ballet would be his artistic home for the rest of his life. when i look back at my history that quite often when i haven't been working in ballet itself, that when i come back to it, something good happens. narrator: the "something" was the seminal "dances at a gathering," one of robbins' most lyrical and expressive ballets in which classic dance steps arise from chopin's piano music as naturally a

. >> but i was still missing one key ingredient, murrow had good night and good luck.ite had that's the way it is. and comae has got-- that's what it is. >> that's a catch-phrase? >> yeah. -- (laughter) that really means what a huge candle. >> that's right, that's right, wyatt, that's right. >> wyatt, that's the first words that had to use in order to be a good journalist. >> that's right. >> all right, i'll do it. >> all right, can you guys help me get down off this chair? my time had come to finally speak truth to power. i arrived in our nation's capitol and found inoperation all around my. i now had the pantlones to ask the questions that no one was willing to ask. here was my moment. time to show the press corps how a real journalist does it. >> i will see be here obviously to take your questions on all issues. >> jay -- --. >> let go, et go. >> get out of here. >> no -- >> wyatt cenac, ladies an gentlemen. nice job. (applause) i would@, i got to tell you, terrific story but it seems like an incredible journey for you personally. >> it was, john. this one really ch

. >> reporter: profiled by ed murrow in 1958, dear abby started two years earlier when she called theitor of "the san francisco chronicle" and told them she could do better than what she just read. her advice ran in 1,400 papers worldwide with more than 110 million daily readers. >> the business of living from one day to the next with just one problem after another, most people just want someone to listen to them. >> reporter: she was often confused with her twin sister who wrote her own column under the name ann landers. their rivalry drove them apart. as young adults though they grew close again in later life perhaps following their own vice. >> knowing the right thing to do is incentive. all we need to do is have someone give us the push in the right direction. >> reporter: every letter with a self-addressed envelope received a reply. >> here's a man who wrote me in care of the milwaukee sentinel. his wife doesn't understand him but his bookkeeper does. >> reporter: she continued looking at hundreds of letters day into her 70s eventually sharing the writing the column with her daug

jim axelrod and ed murrow report on an american legend we lost today. >> what you might call a careery hobby. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is a developing situation but one high-ranking source in

. >> reporter: profiled by ed murrow in 1958, "dear abby" started two years earlier when she called thehe "san francisco chronicle" and told him she could do better than what she had just read. her advice ran in 1400 papers worldwide with more than 110 million daily readers. >> the business of living from one day to the next is just one problem after another. most people just want someone to listen to them. >> reporter: she was often confused with her twin sister, who wrote her own column under the name anne landers. the rivalry drove them apart as young adults, although they grew close again in later life, perhaps following their own advice. >> knowing the right thing to do is instinctive. all we need is someone to give us a push in the right direction. >> reporter: every letter sent with a self-addressed stamped envelope received a reply. >> now, here's a letter from a man who wrote me in care of the "milwaukee sentinel." his wife doesn't understand him but his bookkeeper does. >> reporter: she continued looking at hundreds of letters a day into her 70s, eventually sharing the writing

murrow on cbs's person to person >> this is my office believe it or not. >> osgood: and reading off areceived every day. >> here's a letter from a teenager who wrote in care of the detroit times. she wants to know what to do about square appearance >> reporter: for all her humor, abby took her readers' problems quite seriously even going so far as to call up letter writers who sounded suicidal and urging them to seek professional help. just knowing that she was there, abby told ed murrow, could do troubled people a world of good >> most people just want someone to listen to them. without moralizing or sermonizing or sitting in judgment. that's good therapy just to write a letter and get it out of your system. tell somebody. >> reporter: whatever abby's skills in solving other people's problems and diffusing other families' family feuds she had less luck calming the water with her sister ann landers. the rivalry was the stuff of legend. though the two eventually reconciled and even joked together in public >> what do you like to do when you're together? >> talk, talk, talk and eat repo

murrow, walter caron cite and lowell thomas -- cronkite ande lowell thomas. >> how did he get to be thatuy? >> you have to condense your stories, you're given about a thousand words, and you can'tf put a lot of adverbs and adjectives in it. so he learned how to write.y unknowingly, that wire service e was perfect for television when you only have 15-minute or then a half an hour news broadcasts. so cronkite didn't throw loose d language around. he was very precise. >> doug brinkley, was he political? >> cronkite was a new deal democrat. he was -- >> and was that known? >> no, it was not. he became l a fan of franklin roosevelt, cheered for him as a boy growing up in the 1930s. in the 1950s, some people felt s cronkite was a republican because his boss was.e the founder of cbs workedor directly for dwight eisenhower in world war ii, and ike just personally loved walter cronkite. so when you have ther 10th -- i mean, the 20th anniversary of d of day, eisenhower took caron cite to the wave -- cronkite to the beaches and wandered around there. is there was a feeling in the early '60s that cr

> reporter: upstairs where the tennis court is now the original cbs tv studio, the home to edward murrow first walked into the place, i was like, my god. >> reporter: but by the time kelly started grand central had fallen on hard times. >> the funny thing in the '70s, right now, we couldn't even see each other. we couldn't see the wall because everything was diesel. you'd be choking. this whole area would be black with the diesel smoke. >> reporter: in the '70s, the '80s, the place was a dump, there's no doubt about it. homeless were sleeping in the main waiting room. they were sleeping in the tunnels below the station. there was grime, there was soot. >> reporter: the owners wanted to tear it down like penn station, another great landmark but they had a powerful champion, jacqueline kennedy onassis. >> jacqueline kennedy was instrument tall in saving grand central. pen central didn't die in vain. it sparked a movement and grand central was one of the chief beneficiaries of it. >> reporter: finally after years of neglect the term nas was restored to its original splendor. the departures

here she is in 1958 with ed murrow in "person to person." >> all kinds of people write to me, ed, becauseer: they wrote thousands of letters to dear abby, the despondent, the lonely, and confused. she was the wise friend and sounding board and in some ways ahead of her time as in this response to up in arms in san francisco, a worried reader about the gay couple living across the street. ab abby, need we're does are wrecking the neighborhood. abby's response, you could move. >> how do you come up with the answers to these important questions? >> well, ed. as my good friend says, horse heads can be found in a stable mind. >> reporter: she first appeared in "the san francisco chronicle" in 1956. at the time a suburban housewife from iowa with no writing experience, phillips convinced the paper's editor that she could do a better job than the person who already had the job. >> when you think of what the '50s were like with the ideal e idealized version of america, here's dear abby saying it's tock have problems because everybody has problems. >> reporter: dear abby became a cultural touchsto

murrow's "person to person." >> all kinds of people write to me, ed because everyone if he's honest hasby the despondent, the lonely and confused. she was the wise friend and sounding board. in some ways ahead of her times as in this response to "up in arms" in san francisco, a reader who was worried about an apparently gay couple living across the street. abby, these weirdoes are wrecking our property values. how can we improve the quality of this once-respectable neighborhood. abby's response? you could move. >> how do you come up with the answers to these important questions? >> well, ed it's just horse sense. as my good friend dr. franz alexander says horse sense can be found in a stable mind. >> reporter: the first year abby appeared in the "san francisco chronicle" in 1956. at the time a suburban housewife from iowa with no writing experience, still convinced the paper's editor she could do better than the person who already had the job. >> when you think about what the '50s were like or at least our concept of them with this sort of idealized version of america, here is dear abby

murrow on "person to person." time have you spent in the last few years in your new york hollywood, and michigan homes? >> well for the last year and a half, i haven't spent any time at all either here or in michigan because for the past ten months i've been shooting "ten commandments" in hollywood. before that i was doing "the private major war for general benson" in hollywood. before that we were in egypt in "ten commandments" doing the location work. >> how much time did you spend in egypt? >> 2 1/2 months last fall. >> it must have been quite an experience. >> oh, that was really an experience, ed. i mean it. >> what was it like working with the egyptians? >> they were wonderful. really wonderful, ed. somehow in the time they've changed from the oldest kingdom in the world to being the youngest republic in the world. they picked up a wonderful friendliness for americans. really though i suppose the main reason they were so nice to us is we were making a picture about moses, and, of course moses is just as sacr

murrow would say, "good night and good luck." [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, what we do now, there are microphones back there and over here, and if you have a question, go to the microphone and i will recognize you, and it will be for a question. and if you start making a speech, i will cut you off. so don't make me be a mean guy. you can address it to the person you'd like an answer from. let's start on the right. >> give us your name -- >> my name is joseph burry, i am an alumnus of the graduate school of business. you had a great remark and a great question. do these debates promote democracy? the people up there are major party candidates. >> not a two-part question. >> please ask it. >> my question is, other than mr. leher, who i commend, the other three did not follow the rules, which were simple. they were to be given one minute a piece, one minute for the question, two for response, two for the re-response. and -- >> i hear you. thank you very much. would someone on the platform answer? >> i think we did follow the r