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Irv Drasnin (born March 18, 1934) is an American journalist, a producer-director-writer of documentary films for CBS News and PBS (Frontline, The American Experience, Nova).
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Originally a newspaper reporter, Irv Drasnin became a writer, producer and director for daily news programs, including the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, where his assignments ranged from “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama, the passage of the Voting Rights Act and NASA’s Project Mercury 6, the first U.S.-crewed space flight program.
My career in broadcast journalism and documentary films includes thirty-five years at CBS News and PBS (Frontline, The American Experience, Nova). I started out writing and producing for daily news programs including the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
Three years after the suppression of the student democracy movement in Tienanmen Square, veteran China-watcher/producer Irv Drasnin returns to China to find a country torn by the conflicting realities of liberal economic reform and continuing political repression.
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Irv Drasnin. Writer: CBS Reports. Irv Drasnin's career in documentary filmmaking and broadcast journalism includes 35 years at CBS News and PBS, covering a wide range of topics both foreign and domestic, contemporary and historical.
With David McCullough, Irv Drasnin. To understand J. Edgar Hoover's rise to power is to understand the America of the 1920s and 1930s and the building of both the power and the mythology of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
