David Brinkley

Writer

Date of birth : 07/10/1920

Date of death : 06/11/2003

City of birth : Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Brinkley hosted This Week with David Brinkley from 1982 until his retirement in 1997. In 1992, he won a Peabody Award for his report on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As a news analyst, Brinkley was known for his terse, biting comments and his dry wit.