Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for the Cable News Network from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... A news anchor (US,Can. ... CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1]. It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963-1968. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois. ...

Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. Knowing that Dukakis opposed the death penalty, Shaw asked Dukakis if he would support an irrevocable death penalty for a man who raped and murdered Dukasis's wife. Dukakis responded that he would not; some critics felt he framed his response too legalistically and logically, and did not address it sufficiently personally. The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ... Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician and former presidential candidate, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Greek-immigrant parents. ... Senator John F. Kennedy debates Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the first televised debates, 1960. ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). ... The election was held on November 8, 1988. ... Moderator can refer to one of the following: neutron moderator moderator (communications) The chairperson of a church court in Presbyterian churches (see Moderator of the General Assembly). ... Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ...

He is also remembered for his reporting on the 1991 Gulf War; during the initial coalition bombing of Baghdad, he hid under his desk as he reported cruise missiles flying past his window. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ... A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad *See Bagdad, Tasmania for the Australian town of a similar name. ... A Tomahawk cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. ...

Shaw retired from CNN in 2001 to write books and has occasionally appeared on CNN, including in May, 2005 when a plane flew into restricted air space in Washington, D.C.

External links

• Biography at the Museum of Broadcast Communications
• CNN anchor Bernard Shaw leaving the network, CNN, November 11, 2000
• Bernard Shaw on CNN at 20
• Second Bush-Dukakis debate transcript