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Fred W. Friendly (October 30, 1915–March 3, 1998) is the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow of the documentary television program See It Now. In 1966 he resigned from CBS when the network ran an episode of I Love Lucy instead of the first senate hearings questioning American involvement in Vietnam, Friendly went on to create the Fred Friendly Seminars.
Fred W. Friendly (October 30, 1915–March 3, 1998) was the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now.
Friendly was born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer to a Jewish family in New York City.
Friendly later wrote, directed and produced the summer 1950 NBC Radio series The Quick and the Dead,about the development of the atomic bomb, which featured Trout, Bob Hope and New York Times writer Bill Lawrence (who covered the original Manhattan Project).
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