List of Peabody Award winners (1960–1969)

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Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.

1960s

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rowspan="3"|NBC

|Award for the White Paper series of news specials

The Shari Lewis Show
The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report
rowspan="4"|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

|rowspan="4"|Separate Institutional Awards for the stations' locally produced programming

WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN
WCKT-TV/Miami, FL
WOOD Radio and WOOD-TV/Grand Rapids, MI
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 [https://www.wnyc.org/series/the-singing-lady The Singing Lady]

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WNYC/New York, NY

|[https://www.wnyc.org/series/readers-almanac The Reader's Almanac] and Teen Age Book Talk

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

rowspan="3"|NBC

|David Brinkley's Journal

The Bob Newhart Show
Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait, narrated by Martin Gabel with Lee J. Cobb as Van Gogh
ABC

|Expedition!

Capital Cities Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and executive producer Milton Fruchtman

|Award for coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and its summary documentary Verdict for Tomorrow: The Eichmann Trial on Television

CBS and Walter Lippman

|Institutional Award for television contribution to international understanding

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

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 and narrated by Richard L. Evans

Newton N. Minow

|Personal Award to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

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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 Twentieth Century, CBS Reports, and other work for CBS News

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

rowspan="3"|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

|[http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog?f%5Baccess%5D%5B%5D=All+Records&f%5Bseries_title%5D%5B%5D=Elliot+Norton+Reviews 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 [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001110146 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

|[https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/3016 San Francisco Pageant], a series of historical documentaries profiling the city of San Francisco

KNX/Los Angeles, CA

|Science Editor, produced by the University of California Extension{{cite web | url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c88s4r9k/entire_text/ | title=Finding Aid for the University Extension. University of California Radio Service. Texts of Radio Broadcasts. 1932-1979. }}

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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

rowspan="2"|NBC

|[https://www.c-span.org/video/?473375-3/the-american-revolution-63-part-1 American Revolution '63]

Mr. Novak
NBC Radio

|The Sunday Night Monitor

WNBC-TV/New York, NY and NBC Radio

|The Dorothy Gordon Forum

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|CBS Reports, for the 3-part report "Storm Over the Supreme Court"

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

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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 contribution to international understanding

WBKB-TV/Chicago, IL

|Off the Cuff

Burr Tillstrom

|Personal Award for Tillstrom's "hand ballet" interpretation of the Berlin Wall's human impact for That Was The Week That Was[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRvarruS9g "Burr Tillstrom's 'Berlin Wall'" on YouTube] (accessed 2/16/2015)

Julia Child (WGBH-TV/Boston, MA)

|Personal Award for Child's work on The French Chef[https://www.nationalbook.org/people/julia-child/ Julia Child - National Book Foundation]

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

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|A Charlie Brown Christmas[https://schulzmuseum.org/timeline/december-9-1965/ December 9, 1965 - Charles M. Schulz Museum]

CBS Reports, for the report "[https://archive.org/details/kukluxklantheinvisibleempire_201505 KKK - The Invisible Empire]"[https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?6930 History of the Ku Klux Klan|C-SPAN Classroom]
[https://archive.org/details/themysteryofstonehenge The Mystery of Stonehenge]
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

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 [http://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=History+of+the+Negro+People&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=online History of the Negro People], [http://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=America%27s+Crises&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=all American Crises], and [http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EBD4E4A440A141048C58F6FBE17B363B Changing World: South African Essay]

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, Let My People Go, The Louvre, 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

Morley Safer (CBS News)

|Personal Award for Safer's reports from the Vietnam War

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|A Christmas Memory

The Wide World of Sports
WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI

|A Polish Millennium Concert

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|American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States

The Bell Telephone Hour
Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk
The World of Stuart Little[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000527/1967/1/ Peabody Awards (1967) - IMDb]
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

KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA

|Assignment Four

CBS

|National Geographic Specials

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"

Harry Reasoner (CBS News)

|Personal Award for Reasoner's reportage and essay presentations

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, [http://americanarchive.org/catalog?f%5Bseries_titles%5D%5B%5D=NET+Journal&f%5Baccess_types%5D%5B%5D=online NET Journal], and U.S.A.: The Arts

Edwin Newman (NBC Radio Network)

|Personal Award for Newman's commentary work

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ABC

|Africa

rowspan="2"|NBC

|An Evening at Tanglewood

Meet the Press
NBC Radio

|The Eternal Light

NBC Radio and Elie Abel

|The World and Washington

rowspan="3"|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

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

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|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, How Life Begins, Sharks: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The Road to Gettysburg, Hemingway's Spain, and The Secret of Michelangelo: Every Man’s Dream, documentaries with "exceptional inventiveness"
CBS News

|CBS Reports: Hunger in America (reported by Charles Kuralt and David Culhanehttps://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=charles+kuralt&p=9&item=T77:0042)

WJR/Detroit, MI

|Kaleidoscope, hosted by Mike Whorf

rowspan="2"|National Educational Television

|Mister Rogers' Neighborhood[https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2018/04/19/Fred-Rogers-Company-Peabody-Award/stories/201804190108 2018 Peabody Awards honor The Fred Rogers Company|Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

Playhouse
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc.

|One Nation Indivisible (hosted by Roderick MacLeishhttps://search.worldcat.org/title/One-nation-indivisible/oclc/44497080)

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

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|NBC Experiment in Television

Who Killed Lake Erie?
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"

rowspan="2"|CBS

|[https://archive.org/details/jtreel1 J.T.] (from the CBS Children's Hour)

[https://archive.org/details/thejapanese The Japanese]
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[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/24/archives/report-card-on-sesame-street-sesame-street.html Report Card On Sesame Street - The New York Times][https://time.com/6258549/sesame-street-time-cover-1970/ Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV?|TIME][https://thenerdstash.com/sesame-street-the-musical-is-arriving-off-broadway-this-fall/ ‘Sesame Street: the Musical’ is Arriving Off-Broadway This Fall|The Nerd Stash]

WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and KCET/Los Angeles, CA
(airing on National Educational Television)

|[http://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/advocates/full-program-video 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?

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