Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Dan Rather
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Chicago cab ride === On November 10, 1980, Rather landed at Chicago's [[O'Hare International Airport]] and got into a cab. He asked the cab driver to take him to the home of writer [[Studs Terkel]], whom he was interviewing for ''60 Minutes''. A police spokesman said that the cab driver refused to go to the address and instead "wildly drove through the city streets," with Rather shouting out the window asking for help. The driver was charged with disorderly conduct. Rather called the incident "a rather minor thing". By the time the case was about to come to trial, he was about to add anchoring the ''CBS Evening News'' to his ''60 Minutes'' role at CBS News. Rather declined to press charges, citing a "mounting schedule of reporting assignments".<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |title=The Ride of Dan Rather |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/11/11/111306745.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113014906/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/11/11/111306745.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-13 |url-status=live |author=Albin Krebs and David Bird |date=November 11, 1980}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/28/nyregion/notes-on-people-rather-withdraws-charges-against-cab-driver.html |title=Rather Withdraws Charges Against Cab Driver |author=Albin Krebs and Robert McG. Thomas |date=February 28, 1981}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)