Richard Heffner
Richard Douglas Heffner (August 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was the creator and host of
Career
A protégé of
Heffner earned his BA (1946) and MA (1947) degrees in history from Columbia University. He taught two courses at Rutgers University. "Mass Communications and the American Image" is taught through the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, while "Communication and Human Values" is an honors undergraduate seminar taught through the School of Arts and Sciences. He also taught the same honors undergraduate course, "Communication and Human Values", at New York University. [citation needed] For the 50th anniversary of The Open Mind in Jan. 2006, fellow broadcaster Bill Moyers guest-hosted the show and interviewed Heffner.[2]
Death
Heffner died of a
See also
- MPAA film rating system
References
- ^ University of Wisconsin-Madison News reference to Heffner Archived 2006-02-20 at the Wayback Machine, January 31, 2006.
- ^ The Open Mind: The Open Mind...at 50, retrieved 2023-02-06
- ^ Richard Heffner, Historian, Teacher, Pioneer of Public Television, is Dead at 88
External sources
- Rutgers University: Richard D. Heffner
- Richard Heffner, The Gilded Age (1952)
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