Morley Safer's Papers Donated to Briscoe Center [UT]

CBS journalists must appreciate the University of Texas; the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History already holds papers from the careers of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, and today it was announced that Morley Safer is donating his papers to the same Center. Safer says the Center's journalism archive "has no equal. It is a gateway to learning the eyewitness history of who we are, who we were and how we perceived ourselves as a nation."

Safer's papers to be included in the Center's archive include notes from his award-winning Vietnam coverage for CBS, scripts from his early work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the manuscript of Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam (his 1990 book), photographs, memoranda, videos and more from his long career in journalism. Safer, born in Canada, started reporting there and joined CBS News 45 years ago as the network's London correspondent. His 1965 story on the Cam Ne village burning had a tremendous impact on how broadcast journalists would come to cover the war. Safer has worked on 60 Minutes since 1970.

His papers will be available to the public after the Center has cataloged them. [UT Press Release]