Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| NBC | Award for the White Paper series of news specials, covering such topics as the U-2 incident and the sit-in demonstrations and produced by Irving Gitlin |
| The Shari Lewis Show | |
| The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report | |
| CBS | Award for coverage of the 1960 Winter and Summer Olympics |
| CBS Reports , for Harvest of Shame | |
| G.E. College Bowl | |
| The Fabulous Fifties, a revue produced by Leland Hayward | |
| Dr. Frank Stanton (CBS) | Personal Award for Dr. Stanton's actions that led to the 1960 presidential debates |
| Broadcasting and Film Commission of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S. | Institutional Award for the programs Look Up and Live , Frontiers of Faith , Pilgrimage, and Talk-back |
| KPFK Radio/Los Angeles, CA | Institutional Award for the station's local programming, including Arming to Parley, The Largest Question, Not Merely a Business, and its children's programming |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN | Institutional Award for the station's locally produced programming, including Unwed Mothers , Sister Kenny Scandal (about a fundraising scandal at Sister Kenny Institute reported by Joe Bartelme), and Arle Haeberle’s Capsule Fashion Course (a training for women at the Anoka State Hospital) |
| WCKT-TV/Miami, FL | Institutional Award for the station's locally produced programming on the consolidation of the Cuban Revolution, including Compass Points South, Cuba On The Move, and Leave Or Stay |
| WOOD Radio and WOOD-TV/Grand Rapids, MI | Institutional Award for the station's locally produced programming, including Wasted World, Red China-Awakening Giant and MRA-The Plan To Change The World |
| Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network | Institutional Award for the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Musical Spectaculars |
| Irene Wicker (WNYC/New York, NY) | Personal Award for Wicker's work on the children's radio program The Singing Lady |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| WNYC/New York, NY | The Reader's Almanac (hosted by Warren Bower) and Teen Age Book Talk (produced by Lillian Okun) |
| BBC Television | An Age of Kings , with recognition to National Educational Television, Metropolitan Broadcasting, individual stations, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Humble Oil |
| NBC | David Brinkley's Journal, a news show hosted by David Brinkley and produced by Ted Yates |
| The Bob Newhart Show | |
| Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait , narrated by Martin Gabel with Lee J. Cobb as Van Gogh and produced by Lou Hazam | |
| ABC | Expedition! |
| Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) | Award for coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and its summary documentary Verdict for Tomorrow: The Eichmann Trial on Television (Milton Fruchtman, executive producer) |
| CBS and Walter Lippman | Institutional Award for television contribution to international understanding, for an interview of Lippman on CBS Reports |
| Fred W. Friendly (CBS) | Personal Award for Friendly's work in television journalism |
| WFMT/Chicago, IL | Institutional Award for fine arts entertainment |
| WRUL (Worldwide Broadcasting)/New York, NY | Institutional Award for contribution to international understanding for the station's coverage (in English and Spanish) of the United Nations' General Assembly proceedings, sponsored by American Machine and Foundry |
| KSL-TV/Salt Lake City, UT | Let Freedom Ring, featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, starring Richard Boone, Laraine Day, Howard Keel, and Dan O'Herlihy, narrated by Richard L. Evans, and produced by Michel M. Grilikhes |
| Newton N. Minow | Personal Award to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| CBS | A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy |
| Carol Burnett (CBS) | Personal Award for Burnett's comedic performances |
| Walter Cronkite (CBS News) | Personal Award for Cronkite's work on the nightly news, The Twentieth Century , CBS Reports , and specials such as Our Next Man In Space |
| ABC | Adlai Stevenson Reports |
| WJR/Detroit, MI | Adventures in Good Music |
| Official Films Inc. | Biography |
| WNDT/New York, NY | Books for Our Time , hosted by August Heckscher II |
| WMAQ/Chicago, IL | Carnival of Books , hosted by Ruth Harshaw |
| NBC | The DuPont Show of the Week |
| Exploring | |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | |
| NBC Radio Network | The Eternal Light |
| William R. McAndrew (NBC News) | Personal Award for McAndrew's "vision and leadership" as NBC News' Executive VP |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Elliot Norton Reviews , hosted by Elliot Norton |
| Television Information Office and National Association of Broadcasters | Institutional Award for the organizations' study of locally produced children's programming which resulted in the book For the Young Viewer: Television Programming for Children… at the Local Level |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Institutional Award for the station's news presentations in the midst of the New York City newspaper strike |
| KPIX-TV/San Francisco, CA | San Francisco Pageant , a series of historical documentaries profiling the city of San Francisco |
| KNX/Los Angeles, CA | Science Editor, narrated by Hale Sparks and produced by the University of California Extension [1] |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| Broadcasting industry of the United States | Award for coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination and related events |
| WLW/Cincinnati, OH | Government Under Law |
| KSTP/St Paul, MN | Open Line, for its promotion of public discussion on important issues, in particular claims of subversives at the University of Minnesota (produced by Lee Vogel) |
| NBC | American Revolution '63 |
| Mr. Novak | |
| NBC Radio | The Sunday Night Monitor |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio | The Dorothy Gordon Forum |
| CBS | CBS Reports , for the 3-part report "Storm Over the Supreme Court", narrated by Eric Sevareid |
| The Danny Kaye Show | |
| CBS and Dr. Frank Stanton | Town Meeting of the World |
| Eric Sevareid (CBS News) | Personal Award for Sevareid's editorial commentaries |
| Voice of America and Edward R. Murrow | Institutional Award to VOA and Murrow, its former director, for its contributions "to deepened international understanding" |
| ABC | Saga of Western Man |
| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL | Treetop House, a children's show hosted by Anita Klever |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| Networks and the broadcasting industry | Award for "inescapably confronting the American public with the realities of racial discontent" |
| CBS | CBS Reports , highlighting an interview with Walter Lippmann |
| Intertel (Council of the International Television Federation) | Institutional Award for a group consisting of Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Rediffusion TV, the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company and National Educational Television for documentaries that provided a contribution to international understanding |
| WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL | Off the Cuff, a talk show hosted by Norman Ross |
| Burr Tillstrom | Personal Award for Tillstrom's "hand ballet" interpretation of the Berlin Wall's human impact for That Was The Week That Was [2] |
| Julia Child (WGBH-TV/Boston, MA) | Personal Award for Child's work on The French Chef [3] |
| William H. Lawrence (ABC) | Personal Award for Lawrence's reporting, analysis, and commentary work |
| NBC | The Louvre, produced by Lucy Jarvis and narrated by Charles Boyer |
| NBC and Robert Saudek | Profile in Courage |
| Joyce Hall (NBC) | Personal Award for Hall's work as "an enlightened patron of the television arts" through Hallmark Hall of Fame |
| WRVR-FM/New York, NY | Riverside Radio |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| CBS | A Charlie Brown Christmas [4] |
| CBS Reports , for the report "KKK - The Invisible Empire", produced by David Lowe [5] | |
| The Mystery of Stonehenge (produced by Harry Morgan [6] ) | |
| National Drivers Test | |
| CBS Radio | Music 'Til Dawn |
| CBS and NBC | Joint Institutional Award for the specials My Name Is Barbra (CBS), The Julie Andrews Show (NBC), and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (NBC) |
| ABC | A Visit to Washington with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, On Behalf of a More Beautiful America (produced by John H. Secondari and Helen Rogers and directed by Harry Rasky and John Hughes) |
| KTLA/Los Angeles, CA | Institutional Award for the station's coverage of the Watts riots |
| National Educational Television | Institutional Award for the network's "distinguished performance in educational broadcasting," specifically citing History of the Negro People (produced by Arthur W. Rabin), American Crises , and Changing World: South African Essay (directed by Terence Macartney-Filgate) |
| WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN | Institutional Award for the station's public service coverage during natural disasters |
| Xerox Corporation | Institutional Award for its promoting of "international understanding" through presentations of "The Making of the President - 1964 (directed by Mel Stuart), Let My People Go , The Louvre (produced by Lucy Jarvis), and the illuminating series on the United Nations" |
| Elmo Ellis (WSB Radio/Atlanta, GA) | Personal Award for Ellis' editorials, book reviews, and other features for WSB |
| Frank McGee (NBC) | Personal Award for McGee's special event news coverage, such as spaceflights and the visit by Pope Paul VI to the United States |
| Morley Safer (CBS News) | Personal Award for Safer's reports from the Vietnam War |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC | A Christmas Memory |
| The Wide World of Sports | |
| WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI | A Polish Millennium Concert, celebrating 1000 years of Christianity in Poland |
| NBC | American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States, produced by Fred Freed |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | |
| Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk , produced by George A. Vicas and hosted by Kenneth Bernstein | |
| The World of Stuart Little [7] | |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio | The Dorothy Gordon Youth Forum , for "Youth and Narcotics - Who Has the Answer?" |
| WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL | Kup's Show , for its presentation on the dangers of narcotics |
| WGN-TV/Chicago, IL | Artists' Showcase, a local classical music show hosted by Louis Sudler and with a band led by Robert Trendler |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA | Assignment Four , a local documentary series |
| CBS | National Geographic Specials , including Hidden World (directed by Jack Haley Jr.), Americans on Everest , Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man (about Louis Leakey and directed by Guy Blanchard), The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (directed by Philippe Cousteau), The Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee (directed by Ray Jewell), and Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees (about Jane Goodall and directed by Marshall Flaum) |
| Tom H. John (CBS) | Personal Award for John's art and set design on the CBS specials Color Me Barbra , Death of a Salesman , and The Strollin' Twenties |
| CBS News | CBS Reports , for "The Poisoned Air" (narrated by Daniel Schorr and produced by Jack Beck) |
| Harry Reasoner (CBS News) | Personal Award for Reasoner's reportage and essay presentations, with producer Andrew Rooney |
| WLIB/New York, NY | Community Opinion, a program that provided platforms for and information to residents of New York's Harlem neighborhood |
| National Educational Television | Institutional Award for excellence in educational television programming, citing NET Playhouse , NET Journal , and U.S.A.: The Arts |
| Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network) | Personal Award for Newman's commentary work |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC | Africa, a four-hour documentary on the continent (James Fleming, executive producer [8] ) |
| NBC | An Evening at Tanglewood (hosted by Edwin Newman and produced by Walter C. Miller [9] ) |
| Meet the Press | |
| NBC Radio | The Eternal Light |
| NBC Radio and Elie Abel | The World and Washington , a news analysis show |
| CBS | CBS Playhouse |
| CBS Children's Film Festival | |
| The Ed Sullivan Show , in recognition of its 20 years of "presenting a broad spectrum of entertainment" | |
| Eric Sevareid (CBS News) | Personal Award for Sevareid's news analysis and commentary |
| WIS-TV/Columbia, SC | Mr. Knozit, a local children's television program with Joe Pinner |
| Bob Hope | Personal Award in honor of Hope's 30th anniversary in broadcast entertainment |
| Dr. James R. Killian, Jr. | Personal Award to the chairman of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, whose recommendations led to the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
| WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL | The Opportunity Line, a series promoting employment opportunities in the Chicago area |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| ABC | Award for coverage of the 1968 Winter and Summer Olympics, highlighting the work of Roone Arledge and Chris Schenkel |
| Institutional Award for its presentation of The Sense of Wonder (based on the book by Rachel Carson and produced by Jules Power [10] ), How Life Begins (a sex education film produced by Power), Sharks: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau , The Road to Gettysburg , Hemingway's Spain (produced by Lester Cooper), and The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man’s Dream (produced by Milton Fruchtman [11] ), documentaries with "exceptional inventiveness" | |
| CBS News | CBS Reports: Hunger in America (reported by Charles Kuralt and David Culhane and produced by Martin Carr [12] ) |
| WJR/Detroit, MI | Kaleidoscope, hosted by Mike Whorf |
| National Educational Television | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood [13] |
| Playhouse | |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc. | One Nation Indivisible (hosted by Roderick MacLeish [14] ) |
| Charles Kuralt | Personal Award for Kuralt's work on CBS News' On the Road |
| Dr. Leonard Reiffel (WEEI/Boston, MA) | Personal Award for Dr Reiffel's work on WEEI's The World Tomorrow |
| Robert Cromie and WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL | Book Beat |
| NBC Radio | Second Sunday |
| WQXR/New York, NY | Steinway Hall |
| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| NBC | NBC Experiment in Television |
| Who Killed Lake Erie?, produced by Fred Freed | |
| NBC Radio Network | "On Trial: The Man in the Middle," an episode of Second Sunday |
| WLIB/New York, NY | Higher Horizons |
| Voice of America | Institutional Award for "promotion of international understanding" |
| CBS | J.T. (from the CBS Children's Hour ) |
| The Japanese , narrated by Edwin O. Reischauer and produced by Igor Oganesoff | |
| KQED/San Francisco, CA | Newsroom |
| Bing Crosby | Personal Award in recognition of Crosby's entertainment career |
| Chet Huntley | Personal Award for Huntley's "major and always dependable contribution to radio and television for over 35 years" |
| Curt Gowdy | Personal Award to "television's most versatile sportscaster" |
| Frank Reynolds | Personal Award for Reynolds' anchor and commentary work on ABC Evening News |
| Tom Pettit | Personal Award for Pettit's investigative reportage for NBC News |
| National Educational Television | Sesame Street [15] [16] [17] |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and KCET/Los Angeles, CA (airing on National Educational Television) | The Advocates |
| WFBM-TV/Indianapolis, IN | The Negro in Indianapolis, a series of programs examining and promoting race relations in the city |
| WRNG/Atlanta, GA | When Will It End? |