Biofile with Lou Dobbs
Published by Scoop Malinowski on November 13, 2009 filed under BioFiles · Comments (0)
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Status: Former CNN news anchor, reporter from 1980 to 2009.
DOB: September 24, 1945 In: Childress, TX
Hobbies/Interests: “Scuba diving. Horseback riding. Golf. Running tractors on the farm – we’ve got a horse farm in (Sussex County) New Jersey. I enjoy getting out, cutting hay and playing farmer on the weekends during the summer.”
Childhood Heroes: “Gene Autry, John Paul Jones and Huckleberry Finn.”
Favorite Movies: “Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Raiders of the Lost Ark…I’m a simple-minded son of a gun [laughs].”
Favorite TV Shows: “Gunsmoke, Peter Gunn, Murder She Wrote and 60 Minutes.”
Musical Tastes: “Jimmy Buffet, The Rolling Stones and Waylon Jennings.”
Childhood Dream: “Initially a fireman and cowboy. Later, a professional quarterback for the Baltimore Colts [laughs].”
Favorite Meal: “My mother-in-law’s enchiladas.”
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: “Chocolate.”
First Job: “As a kid, bagging potatoes in the fields. Or baling hay on the farm in Idaho.”
Early Career Memory: “It’s tough enough learning to be a reporter, but for one of my first assignments I was handed a Bell & Howell movie camera and asked to film a meeting of Cesar Chavez with the United Farm Workers’ Union in Mexico. It was the first time I had ever used a movie camera, so I rushed back with the story and what I thought was the film of the story. The film turned out to be all black, so my career as a photographer ended rather abruptly.”
Greatest Career Moment: “The Chinese have a saying…’If you love your work, you’ll never have a job.’ It’s been a career of many years and a lot of moments. I’ve enjoyed nearly all of them.”
People Qualities Most Admired: “Courage to go against the grain and not follow the herd, with character, capacity and talent.”
Education: Harvard.
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