| 1930, October 1 |
Ted Yates born in Sheridan, Wyoming, to Frederick L. and Haydie (Eames) Yates.
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| 1948-1949 |
Attended University of Virginia.
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| 1949-1950 |
Writer for NBC radio and television shows of Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg.
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| 1950-1952 |
United States Marine Corps: combat correspondent, Korea.
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| 1952 |
NBC-TV: White House correspondent and producer of Your President's Week.
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| 1953-1954 |
News and special events director for the Dumont television network.
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| 1954, July 16 |
Married to Mary Olberg of La Crosse, Wisconsin. They had three children: Eames, Frederick, and Angus.
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| 1955-1957 |
Produced Night Beat and Mike Wallace Interviews with Mike Wallace at CBS. Won Emmy Award and Robert E. Sherwood Memorial Award.
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| 1957 |
Director of creative programming with Channel 13, New York.
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| 1958 |
Producer of The Ben Hecht Show, ABC-TV.
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| 1959-1960 |
News director for Metromedia Television; also produced The John Crosby Show and A Way of Thinking.
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| 1961-1964 |
Produced David Brinkley's Journal, a half-hour weekly news program, NBC-TV. Won two Emmy Awards and the George Foster Peabody Award.
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| 1963 |
Selected by the United State Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten outstanding young men of the year.
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| 1964-1967 |
Producer-director of his own documentary news specials for NBC, covering such topics as American politics, conservation of natural resources, and events in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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| 1965 |
Won George Polk Award for his documentary Vietnam: It's A Mad War, December, 1964.
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| 1966 |
Given Overseas Press Club's Ed Stout Award for reporting on United States intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965: Santo Domingo: War Among Friends, May, 1965.
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| 1967, June 5 |
Fatally shot while covering Middle East fighting.
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