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Nancy Dickerson Whitehead is an American television journalist and author. She was born on January 19, 1927 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a degree in journalism. Whitehead began her career in television in the 1950s, working as a reporter for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee. She then moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for CBS News. She was the first female correspondent for the network, and she covered the White House and other major political events. Whitehead wrote several books, including "60 Minutes: The Power and the Politics of America's Most Popular TV News Show" and "The Power Game: How Washington Works." She also wrote a memoir, "Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam." Whitehead was married to John Whitehead, a former Deputy Secretary of State, from 1985 until his death in 2015. She is currently retired and living in Washington, D.C.

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Her husband is Claude Wyatt Dickerson Jr. (m. February 22, 1962-1982) John C. Whitehead (m. 25 February 1989)

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Dickerson died in New York City on October 18, 1997 of complications from a stroke, aged 70. She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery – Section 3, Grave# 1316-A-LH – alongside Whitehead, who had been a commander in the Navy.

Dickerson moved to New York City in 1989. On February 25, 1989, she married former Goldman Sachs chairman John C. Whitehead. He later served as World Trade Center Memorial Foundation chairman and died on February 7, 2015.

In her 1976 memoir Among Those Present, she recalled that The Washington Daily News once offered her a job as women's editor, but she turned it down because "it seemed outlandish to try to change the world writing shopping and food columns." She appeared as a mystery guest on the game show What's My Line?

Dickerson left the network in 1971 to become an independent broadcaster and producer, syndicating a daily news program, Inside Washington. In 1980, she founded the Television Corporation of America, through which she produced documentaries for PBS and others. Most notable among these was 784 Days That Changed America—From Watergate to Resignation, for which she received a Peabody Award and the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.

She reported for NBC News from 1963 to 1970, covering all the pivotal stories of that time: political conventions, election campaigns, inaugurations, Capitol Hill, and the White House. She is noted as being the first woman correspondent on the floor of a political convention. In 1963, she covered the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. She was also part of NBC's coverage of President Kennedy's assassination and funeral. Her narration is heard on the NBC videotape at the Andrews Air Force Base arrival of the late president's remains and the statement made by the newly sworn in Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington D.C. She narrated the arrival along NBC Congressional correspondent Bob Abernethy. Ray Scherer contributed to the narration in 1965 during a conversation that NBC Director Max Schindler, who directed the coverage of the arrival for the networks did with Johnson at the White House for the TV networks, being the White House correspondent during the LBJ White House years.

On February 22, 1962, she married industrialist C. Wyatt Dickerson and became stepmother to his three daughters from a prior marriage. They had two sons together, Michael and John. They lived at "Merrywood", a 46-acre estate in McLean, Virginia throughout most of the marriage, which ended in divorce.

Although the field of television journalism was almost entirely dominated by men at the time, Dickerson got her break in 1954, when she was hired by CBS News's Washington bureau to produce a radio show called Capital Cloakroom. She would also become an associate producer of Face the Nation. In 1960, CBS made her its first female correspondent.

She worked as a grade school teacher in Milwaukee before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1951. She took courses in speech and drama at The Catholic University of America to improve the skills she would need to pursue her dream of becoming a broadcaster. It was in her next position, as a Senate Foreign Relations Committee researcher, that she would develop a passion for the inner workings of government, which would define her career of more than four decades.

Born Nancy Conners Hanschman in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, Nancy Dickerson first attended Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa for two years before transferring to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she earned a degree in education in 1948.

Nancy Dickerson (January 19, 1927 – October 18, 1997) was an American radio and television journalist and researcher for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As famous as a celebrity and socialite as she was for her journalism, she later became an independent producer of documentaries.

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