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SPECIAL EVENT - DETAILS & TICKETS
Conversations - Bob McNamara
Sunday, October 7, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Conversations is sponsored in part by Elliott and Judy Greenberg, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Sedona Community Foundation.
Tickets

Tickets are $12 for the general public, $11 for full-time students, and $10 for CMT subscribers.  To purchase tickets in advance, call 928.282.6212, visit our ticket outlets (cash or check only) at Rycus' Corners in the Village of Oak Creek or Clothing Reflections in West Sedona, or buy online with a credit card or PayPal.
Conversations
Sunday, October 7, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.

My Life in the News: From Presidents Nixon to Bush
with Bob McNamara, CBS News correspondent and 5-time Emmy Award winner
hosted by Ellen Simon, former Arizona congressional candidate
crash of TWA Flight 800, the Paducah, Kentucky, and Jonesboro, Arkansas, student murders, the Los Angeles riots, Hurricanes Andrew and Hugo, and the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

McNamara was based at the CBS News bureau in Chicago (1979-84) and spent five years overseas at the CBS News bureaus in London (1977-79) and Bonn, Germany (1975-77).  He joined CBS News in 1974 as a general assignment reporter based in New York and was named a correspondent a year later.

McNamara's international reporting experience is considerable: he filed reports for CBS News from more than 40 countries.  He covered the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the fall of the Shah of Iran and the ensuing violence, and the funeral of Pope Paul VI.  McNamara also filed numerous reports on terrorism in West Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland and covered national elections in several European countries.

While based in New York in the mid-1970s, he often anchored CBS News On The Hour broadcasts on the CBS Radio Network.

McNamara is a five-time recipient of the Emmy Award.  He was a member of the team of CBS News correspondents that received a Ben Grauer Award from the Overseas Press Club in 1978 for "best radio spot news reporting from abroad" for coverage of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's trip to Israel.

Prior to joining CBS News, McNamara was a reporter, anchor, and political correspondent for WCCO-TV, the CBS-owned station in Minneapolis (1968-74).  Before that, he was a news reporter and anchor for at KCRG-TV and Radio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1967-68).  He began his broadcast journalism career in 1965 as a copy boy for WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned station in Chicago.
About Bob McNamara

A CBS News veteran, Bob McNamara was based in Dallas from 1995 until his  retirement in 2005.  He regularly reported for the Evening News, often contributing longer segments for Eye on America.

Before that, McNamara worked out of the Denver bureau (1984-95).  He covered many major stories for CBS News, including the Oklahoma City bombing, the
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About Conversations
Returning for its second season, this popular and thought-provoking series continues with guest speakers discussing topics that are compelling and timely to the community.

Each evening begins with a conversation between the guest speaker and the host, followed by a question-and-answer period with the audience.

Evenings close with coffee and dessert in the lobby, giving audience members the opportunity to meet with the speakers one on one and to discuss the ideas presented during the evening with each other.
host
Ellen Simon