timeline of the life of eric sevareid
| 1912 |
November 26 born Velva, North Dakota |
| 1935 |
B.A. Political science, University of Minnesota |
| 1935 |
married Lois Finger (divorced 1962) |
| 1937-39 |
reporter NY Herald in Paris by day and United Press by night |
| 1939 |
recruited by Edward R. Murrow for CBS News |
| 1939-40 |
traveled with French army and air force for CBS; first to report French capitulation |
| 1941-43 |
war correspondent reporting from Washington, DC |
| 1943 |
war correspondent in China, plane crash in Burma |
| 1944 |
war correspondent in Italy and France |
| 1945 |
war correspondent in London |
| 1946-59 |
chief Washington correspondent for CBS |
| 1959-61 |
CBS European correspondent |
| 1961-64 |
Moderator for CBS news programs |
| 1963 |
Labor Day. CBS begins half hour broadcasts of CBS Evening News |
| 1963-77 |
News analyst with Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening News |
| 1963 |
Sevareid moves to Chevy Chase, Maryland |
| 1963 |
married Belen Marshall (divorced 1973) |
| 1977 |
November--retires from CBS |
| 1978 |
married Suzanne St. Pierre |
| 1992 |
July 9 dies |
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