Don Hewitt created a remarkable system to get the best stories on the air.
The TV pioneer was 86 and directed the first 1960 Kennedy-Nixon TV debate
CNN President Jon Klein credits 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt for many of the innovations used in television news today.
Television pioneer and longtime CBS executive Don Hewitt, the creator of "60 Minutes," has died, the network said Wednesday. He was 86.
The first televised debate between presidential candidates, which took place 45 years ago Monday, not only had a major effect on the 1960 election, it changed America politics for good.
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