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The Candy Factory—II: What Keeps “60 Minutes” Ticking Away?
profiles ·

From 1982: Part 2 of E. J. Kahn, Jr.,’s Profile of the Sunday news program. With its star correspondents, including Mike Wallace, intrusive reporting, and theatrical touch, the Sunday news program attracts a mass audience—and a number of lawsuits.

The Candy Factory—I: Inventing “60 Minutes”
profiles ·

Part 1 of E. J. Kahn, Jr.,’s Profile of the program, from 1982. By creating a new kind of news show, featuring the star correspondents Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, and Harry Reasoner, the producer Don Hewitt ushered in the infotainment age.

It Has No Name
annals of crime ·

E. J. Kahn’s 1953 piece about a cheating husband who murders his wife—and everyone else aboard her plane—with a bomb.