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The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees

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1957 Broadcast George A. Vicas "Radio Beat " debates between American and Soviet scientists and educators CBS Radio
1958 Broadcast Irving Gitlin Supervision of CBS Unit One, particularly the programs "Who Killed Michael Farmer" and " P.O W.- A Study in Survival" CBS-TV
1959 Broadcast Edward P. Morgan, News broadcasts over the ABC Network ABC-TV
1959 Broadcast WNTA-TV, N.Y. "PIay of the Week" programs WNTA-TV
1960 Broadcast Walter Peters, producer, Marshal Diskin, director, (1960). Cast the First Stone ABC-TV
1961 Broadcast Al Wasserman, producer, Robert Young, director, and Charles Dorkins, cameraman White Paper #7 : Angola: Journey to a War NBC-TV
1962 Broadcast Warren Wallace Superfluous People WCBS-TV, New York
1962 Broadcast John Keats, writer, George Dessart, producer, David E. Wilson, director Conformity WCAU-T V, Philadelphia
1963 Broadcast Millard Lampell "No Hiding Place," on the East Side/West Side series CBS-TV
1964 Broadcast Joseph Wershba Gideon's Trumpet: The Poor Man & The Law CBS-TV
1966 Broadcast William C. Jersey A Time for Burning National Educational Television Network
1967 Broadcast Jay L. McMullen The Tenement CBS-TV News
1967 Broadcast Harold & Lynne Rhodes Mayer, producer and writer The Way It Is National Educational Television Network (Honorable Mention)
1968 Broadcast Bill Osterhous & Dick Huber One Nation, Indivisible Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
1969 Broadcast Fred Freed Who Killed Lake Erie? NBC-TV
1970 Broadcast Ronn Bonn & Walter Cronkite Can the World Be Saved CBS News
1971 Broadcast Martin Carr This Child Is Rated X NBC-TV
1972 Broadcast Lucy Jarvis What Price Health? NBC-TV
1973 Broadcast Paul Altmeyer Freedom & Security: The Uncertain Balance Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
1974 Broadcast CBS Television Network Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman CBS-TV
1974 Broadcast WNET/13 Special Award for outstanding programming WNET
1975 Broadcast CBS Television Network Fear on Trial CBS-TV
1976 Broadcast Paul Leaf Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1977 Broadcast Bill Moyers The Fire Next Door
1977 Broadcast ABC Television Network Roots (special award) ABC-TV