Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1927, Jan. 27 | Born Nancy Hanschman, Wauwatosa, Wis. |
| 1944-1946 | Attended Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa and transferred to University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. |
| 1948 | B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. |
| 1948-1950 | Public school teacher, Milwaukee, Wis. |
| 1949 | Summer studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1951-1953 | Staff assistant, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations |
| 1954-1960 | Assistant producer, CBS News, The Leading Question, Capitol Cloakroom, and, starting in 1956, Face the Nation |
| 1960-1963 | Correspondent, CBS News, first woman in that job for CBS; first woman to report from the floor of a national political convention |
| 1962 | Married Claude Wyatt Dickerson (divorced 1983) |
| 1963-1970 | Correspondent, NBC News |
| 1971-1973 | Formed Dickerson & Co.; produced nationally syndicated programs including Inside Washington with Nancy Dickerson |
| 1976 | Published Among Those Present: A Reporter's View of Twenty-five Years in Washington. New York: Random House |
| 1980 | Formed Television Corp. of America; produced news documentaries |
| 1983 | Awarded Peabody Award for documentary 784 Days That Changed America: From Watergate to Resignation |
| 1986 | Commentator, Fox Television News |
| 1989 | Married John C. Whitehead; moved to New York, N.Y. |
| 1997, Oct. 18 | Died, New York, N.Y. |