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Rita Braver journeys with Charles Osgood across his news career, from his beginnings in radio, through his early TV days.
The network news anchors from CBS, ABC and NBC pay homage to a broadcast trailblazer.
Tracy Smith traces the life story of the veteran CBS newsman Charles Osgood Wood, and to Baltimore, Md., where the young baseball fan, newspaper delivery boy, and music student returned to the city of his youth, from a report originally broadcast in 2005.
The monumental Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., is one of the most elegant testaments to knowledge in the world. Charles Osgood was given a tour of the building as it underwent a massive, multi-million-dollar restoration, in a report that originally aired May 4, 1997.
New York City stockbroker John Taeni has spent a lifetime amassing his collection of autographs - tens of thousands of signatures from world leaders and notables of history. Why does he do it? Charles Osgood went in search of an answer in this CBS News report which originally aired September 25, 1975.
Folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott ran away to join the rodeo at age 15, fell in love with the cowboy life, and started spilling folk songs in a way that "sounded more like Woody Guthrie than Woody Guthrie." Charles Osgood visits with the musical storyteller, in a tale originally broadcast February 21, 1999.
Charles Osgood travels to London, where May 8, 1945 - the end of World War II in Europe - is being commemorated by those who lived through the Blitz, and who recapture that time in song. Originally broadcast May 7, 1995.
Charles Osgood travels to London, where May 8, 1945 - the end of World War II in Europe - is being commemorated by those who lived through the Blitz, and who recapture that time in song. Originally broadcast May 7, 1995.
There may not be much in common between the 84-year-old man and the six-year-old child with muscular dystrophy, yet their friendship is anything but uncommon. It's yet another example of the group called Family Friends - senior citizens who befriend children that are chronically ill or disabled. Charles Osgood introduces us to a few. Originally broadcast December 12, 1991.
Opened in 1863, Woodlawn Cemetery, in the New York City borough of the Bronx, is comprised of 400 acres of lush wooded landscape populated by some of the most famous names in history. Charles Osgood takes a stroll among Woodlawn's permanent residents. Originally broadcast on October 30, 1988.
